簡述美女與野獸故事內容 20分,急急急

The rich merchant not only has three daughters but also three sons who have little to do with the story. All the girls are good looking, particularly the youngest who becomes known as Little Beauty. The sisters are vain and jealous of Beauty who is by contrast modest and charming and wishes to stay with her father.

All of a sudden the family loses its money and is forced into a poorer lifestyle which makes life more difficult all around and exaggerates the differences between Beauty and her sisters. Beauty and the three brothers throw themselves into working for their new life while the sisters are bored. The father takes a trip in the hopes of regaining his wealth, and the older sisters demand he bring them expensive garments. Beauty asks simply for a rose.

The father is unsuccessful in his attempt to regain his wealth and in despair, wandering in the forest, is trapped in a snow storm. He comes upon a seemingly deserted palace where he finds food and shelter for the night. In the morning he wanders into the garden where he sees the perfect rose for Beauty. Upon plucking it, a hideous Beast appears and says that for his thievery he must die. The father begs for his life and, the Beast agrees to let him go if one of his daughters will take his place. If she refuses, then he must return to die himself. The Beast gives him a chest filled with gold and sends him home. This treasure enables the older daughters to make fashionable marriages. On giving Beauty the rose, her father cannot help but tell her what happened. The brothers offer to slay the Beast but the father knows that they would die in the process. Beauty insists on taking her father’s place, and so she returns with him to the Beast’s palace where he reluctantly leaves her.

In a dream Beauty sees a beautiful lady who thanks her for her sacrifice and says that she will not go unrewarded. The Beast treats her well; all her wishes are met by magic. He visits her every evening for supper and gradually Beauty grows to look forwards to these meetings as a break to the monotony of her life. At the end of each visit the Beast asks Beauty to be his wife, which she refuses although agreeing never to leave the palace. Beauty sees in the magic mirror that her father is desperately missing her and asks that she might return to visit him. The Beast assents on the condition that she return in seven days, lest he die.

The next morning she is at home. Her father is overjoyed to see her but the sisters are once again jealous of Beauty, her newly found happiness and material comfort with the Beast. They persuade Beauty to stay longer, which she does, but on the tenth night she dreams of the Beast who is dying. Wishing herself back with him, she is transported back to the castle where she finds the Beast dying of a broken heart. She realizes that she is desperately in love with the Beast and says that she would gladly marry him. At this the Beast is transformed into a prince, the Father joins them at the palace and the sisters are turned into statues until they own up to their own faults.
The Prince and Beauty live happily ever after because their "contentment is founded on goodness.


The message given by the story, besides that main staple that true love will prevail, is that of true beauty is within.

2008-01-05 20:42:08 補充：
《美女與野獸》是一個古老的法國神話，過去有多次搬上銀幕的紀錄，這回在迪士尼動畫拍來更顯得細膩動人，本片劇情是敘述在一個被施魔咒的古堡裡，一位王子因不懂得慈悲與寬容而被仙女變為野獸，唯有他學會如何愛人才能變回原貌，後來美女貝兒為救父親而答應被野獸囚禁，在一群魔堡僕役的穿針引線之下，貝兒與野獸從針鋒相對到相知相守，經歷一番波折之後，最後才終於得以解開魔法的桎梏。

美女為救父親比野獸要求倍佢一齊住,最初美女好抗拒,but 後來佢發現野獸為左自己都肯左改變,慢慢愛上野獸,最後更因野獸肯為自己而死,吻了他,及時救回野獸

2008-01-05 21:00:43 補充：
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