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Belle was always a snob who rejected everyone in the village for not meeting her standards, even in the 1991 version. Or do I have to remind you that the opening song literally had Belle dismissing the town as being full of "little people" or yelling twice in the song "There must be more than this provincial life!" (emphasis mine). And the town being illiterate and evil was also in the 1991 film as well, or at least, it's pretty clearly implied that they didn't exactly support Belle's literacy (namely, during the same opening song, the lyrics make it very clear that one of the reasons why they considered Belle an outcast was because she "had her nose stuck in a book", and don't get me started with Gaston's objection to Belle reading. As far as the villagers being evil, I might as well point out that in the original film, we get the Gaston reprise shortly after Gaston kicks Maurice out of the tavern where he comes up with the plan to try and have Maurice locked up in the nuthouse as blackmail to ensure Belle's marriage, a plan, BTW, he actually manages to publicly divulge key details of during that reprise, with the villagers actually cheering him on. If anything, from what I gather, the villagers were NICER in this than in the 1991 film, as aside from that frankly unnecessary and stupid reprise being cut, the villagers actually show hesitance with the plan when Gaston tries to convince them to lock up Maurice).

With all of that said, I do fully agree with you, it's just a PC remake that tries to push a left-wing agenda even further than the original 1991 film (I will still maintain, however, that Emma Watson, despite being feminist, is practically a moderate compared to Linda Woolverton, the lady who wrote the 1991 Beauty and the Beast film and is more than a little responsible for that movie's feminist agenda being in the forefront.).

So far as Shrek, I'm pretty sure that Fiona was actually BORN human and the Ogre form was the result of a curse, so technically, only Shrek actually remained an ogre.

Yes, Fiona was born Human. Shrek was born an ogre. But with the choice at the end of the movie, they prefer the ogre. Its a big difference from a Disney movie. Here, in Beauty and the Beast, they end with two beautiful Harlequin Romance cover models.

The point is that Disney sets a standard outside of real life. The character that the girl audience identifies with, ends up rich and beautiful. That’s happy ever after. What we never really notice is that our real lives are the ogre’s swamp, or towns people. There is never happiness being normal in a Disney movie. I can’t think of what the Disney people must think of A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Life is Beautiful, or My Left Foot. Disney gives little value to actual life, and the struggles we all deal with throughout our lives.