Beast (Beauty and the Beast) Beast (Beauty and the Beast) The Beast is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Animation Studios' 30th animated feature film "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). He also appears in the film's two direct-to-video followups "" and "Belle's Magical World". Based on the hero of the French fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, the Beast was created by screenwriter Linda Woolverton and animated by Glen Keane. A pampered prince transformed into a hideous beast as punishment for his cold-hearted and selfish ways, the Beast must, in order to return to his former self, earn the love of a
Beauty and the Beast going back to the castle. Beauty's heart is moved by her family's overprotection, and she reluctantly agrees to stay. Beauty begins to feel guilty about trying to break her promise to the Beast and uses the mirror to see him back at the castle. She is horrified to discover that the Beast is lying dead near the rose bushes from which her father plucked the rose, and she immediately steals the ring back from her father, and uses it to return to the Beast. Once she returns to the castle, Beauty's fears are confirmed that the Beast was found murdered