Even before he was cursed with the visage of a monstrous beast, Adolpho was never a kind or good man. The outside merely matched his insides after he tried to take advantage of a woman. But he did not know that this woman was a spirit of the forest who had powers he could not dream of. 

He now lives in his castle in the woods, longing for any type of interaction, but ultimately rejecting them all. The curse would hover over him for the rest of his life. And rightly so.