... There are many differences in the two stories of the French story "Beauty and the Beast." The two stories begin differently when the person that casts the spell on the prince is not actually a witch in the movie. Also there is justification for the woman to turn him into the beast because he was very mean to her. Another major difference ... the woods surrounded by no one. In the movie they are in a town of many and they have a good amount of social interaction. Disney makes the women in this story a little more powerful and accountable for their actions where in the story women were de...

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