Beauty and the Beast focuses on Belle who is desired by the handsome but self-centered Gaston. Belle's father disappears during a trip to a local fair and becomes a captive of the Beast. Belle bravely offers herself as an alternative hostage and Beast accepts. As a prisoner, Belle befriends Beast's house of enchanted objects, all talking, walking furniture and kitchen utensils. Belle discovers that the Beast and his staff are all victims of a witch's curse that has transformed them. They fall in love during his hostage situation. In the end, Bella's love reverses the spell on the Beast. Disney attempts to show Belle's feminist qualities. For example, the film presents her as intelligent and difficult to influence by love, in the case of Gaston. However, the Beast is presented as the possessor of "beauty" and Belle must learn his nature; Belle's destiny is hers. It is Belle, stolen by her traditional beauty, who learns from the Beast how to arouse beauty from bestiality. She must learn to love ugliness and literally embrace the beastly. Another problematic element could be Bell...