http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/synopsis
Prince Adam was cursed to a beast form by Enchantress who saw no love in his arrogant heart for others. The one way he could break the spell was to learn to love another and earn her love in return before the last petal from his enchanted rose fell, which would bloom until his twenty-first birthday. But who could ever learn to love a beast? Ten years later, Maurice, an inventor from a nearby village, becomes lost in the woods and seeks shelter in the Beast's castle, the Beast imprisons him for trespassing. His daughter Belle, a bookworm who dreams of life outside her provincial village, finds him trapped in the castle and offers her place in his stead. The Beast accepts with a promise she'll remain in the castle forever. In the beginning Belle views him as nothing more than a monster, he views her as difficult and stubborn. But the two soon taste the bitter-sweetness of finding you can change and learning you were wrong.
The film Beauty and the Beast from 1991 features the same type of manipulation described in quotation one. The main protagonist, Belle, adventures to an old castle where she finds the Beast. Due to the manipulation from stereotypes, Belle thinks that Beast is a monster, and Beast thinks that Belle is difficult and stubborn. As the story continues, Belle and Beast get to know each other more and are no longer manipulated by those stereotypes. They end up falling in love.
This type of manipulation is also conveyed on my Short Fiction page, which features the short story Walk Well, My Brother by Farley Mowat. In this story, Charlie is manipulated by stereotypes and he immediately states that he wishes he had never met her. As they learn more about each other, they become closer friends.
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