When watching a Disney princess movie, you see the villains traumatize the princess and then she finds her true love, but that’s not how the original stories were made. Disney changed the stories to make the happy, inspiring movies we have come to love.

 In Cinderella, she is described as a servant to her step family, and, after sneaking off to the ball and losing her glass slipper, the prince eventually finds her and they get married. That is not how it was originally made, though. Before the changes when the prince set out to find her, the other girls trying on the shoe would cut off their toes to fit in the shoe.

  In “Sleeping Beauty” she is awoken by a prince kissing her after she is put into a deep sleep from touching the spindle of a spinning wheel. In the Giambattista Basile version, he originally created it so Aurora wakes up after giving birth to twins and has to marry the man that raped her, even though he was married.

  In “Beauty and the Beast,” Belle was created as a princess that saves her father by taking his place in a tower, and she falls in love with the beast, who’s really a prince under a spell. They get married and live happily ever after. In the original story created in France by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Belle convinces the beast to let her spend a while at her sister’s house, and when they discover the luxurious life she leads, they convince her to stay longer. When she returns home the beast devours her for seemingly running away.

  “Snow White” was told almost the same both in the original and the remake. The only difference is the fact that instead of the witch dying under a rock, The Brothers Grimm made the witch dance in heated iron shoes until she died as punishment for the torture she put Snow White through.

   Ariel was reformed as a mermaid that married a human, but the original did not create her that way. In the Hans Christian Andersen’s version, she was a mermaid that wanted to marry a human, but after making the deal with the sea witch and developing legs, her legs hurt as if she was stepping on knives.  After a while, the prince married another girl and Ariel threw herself off the ship and she turned into seafoam.

  Rapunzel’s original story is the one with a happy ending. When she was young, she was traded to an evil witch for a salad. One day when she was singing,  the prince walks by the tower and enters it. After he entered, the witch caught him and denied him permission to come back so he threw himself out the window, he lived but the thorns he gets in his eyes caused him to go blind. Later, the prince walks through the forest blind until he hears her singing again and then, crying, threw her arms around him and the tears cured his blindness.

  So, the origins of these stories persuaded Disney to create the happy inspiring stories we have today. Now that these stories are known, we can see how Disney changed the stories to make our beloved princesses.