Aschenputtel By The Brothers Grimm

The Disney version of the story, Cinderella, illustrates a different moral than that of the original story. This story believes an ideal child should do what they are told and follow directions and in the end they will reap the rewards. In this story, Cinderella’s mother dies and her father remarries to a woman who has two daughters. While the daughters are pampered, Cinderella must work to keep the house from falling into disrepair. She befriends the animals and they help her to get ready to go to the ball by finishing her chores and making her a dress. When the evil stepsisters discover the dress they become furious because the mice used trimming from their clothing when making the dress. In revenge, the stepsisters rip the dress, leaving Cinderella out of options and out of hope. Just as Cinderella is about to give up, her fairy godmother appears and with a wave of magic creates a dress and turns a pumpkin and the mice into a horse and carriage. The only problem is that everything will turn back to what it was beforehand at midnight. Cinderella and the Prince fall in love at the ball but she must quickly leave because the

The Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella is a written down oral story that people passed down from generation to generation, meant to teach a lesson about piety and good behavior. Before the Grimm Brothers ever wrote it down, the story had been told several times by memory. It is thus not surprising that the descriptions of certain events in the story, such as the way Cinderella went to the Ball, are lacking in details. It is obvious that these parts of the story are unimportant to the overall message of the story. Instead, it focuses on the piety of Cinderella and the wickedness of the step-sisters. Through the events of the story, it becomes obvious that the goodness of Cinderella is justly rewarded, and that

The gruesome scene of the sisters who were demanded to “cut off your [their] toe” and “heel” (Grimm 3) shows the sacrifices women make for the sake of men and being loved by one. Feminists will view this to be an unequal way of seeing sacrifice because it is very rare that we see a guy sacrificing everything for a girl. Often times, we see girls changing their lives in order to please men, which is untrue in real life. Because of the influence of sexism in literature, women are viewed to be easily manipulated. The “gold and silver” (Grimm 2) Cinderella begs for symbolizes expensive goods used to win a prince’s heart. This shows a degrading attribute in how women use materialistic objects to appeal to men. The subtle symbolism seems innocent at first, but after a feminist-lens analysis, sexism and gender roles are

Perhaps one of the most unnatural and mad behaviors is devouring human flesh, being a cannibal. Besides the cannibalistic witches there are also other cannibals. An incomplete tale from the Brothers Grimm, “The Stepmother”, is also wildly horrific. The story is about an evil mother-in-law. After her son goes off to war she locks her daughter-in-law and grandchildren in a damp cellar. She eventually grows hungry for human flesh and requests her cook to slaughter and cook one of the children. The cook does not go through with this and instead cooks a pig. The mother-in-law craves flesh again and asks for the second child and then the queen herself. The cook tricks her each time and cooks a pig instead; the story ends with the queen trying to muffle her children’s screams so they are not discovered. When a maiden goes to meet her “Robber Bridegroom” at his home she comes to realize the den belongs to a group of murderers, her bridegroom being one of them. They bring home maidens and, “...chop them up to pieces without

Introduction Cinderella is a fairytale for children that displayed love, loss and miracles; however, when it is further analyzed, it has a deeper meaning. Cinderella is a story about a young girl who became a servant in her own home after her father remarried a malicious woman with two spoiled daughters. She was humiliated and abused yet she remained gentle and kind. She received help from her fairy godmother to go to the prince’s ball after her stepmother rejected her proposal. Cinderella and the Prince fell madly in love but she had to leave at twelve o’clock and forgot to tell him her name but she left her glass slipper behind. He sent his servants to find her and Cinderella was the only maiden in the kingdom to fit into the shoes. She

The men in “Cinderella” also value women for their beauty. The prince has a ball for all the maidens in the land to find his future wife, which “amounts to a beauty contest” (Lieberman 386) for a new trophy wife. While some argue that Cinderella’s rebellion of going against her stepmother’s instructions of staying home shows that the story has feminist qualities, the prince weakens her achievement when he chooses her only because of her beauty as “girls win the prize if they are the fairest of them all” (Lieberman 385). Her need for independence is transformed into the prince’s need for a pretty wife, making her again an object in her family. Once integrated into the prince’s family, Cinderella goes from the maid of her family to the smiling porcelain doll next to the prince as the “first job of a fairy tale princess is to be beautiful” (Röhrich 110). This gives the impression that the only way

When Cinderella is saved by a beautiful ball gown and shoes, the reader is happy for her without realizing the absence in the situation. The story expects the reader to agree that a female’s value is derived from her appearance and that all worries can be washed away if one receives a makeover so grand that he or she is unrecognizable even to those they have lived with their whole life. Had Cinderella been in her normal clothes rather than the magnificent gown granted to her by her fairy godmother, she would not have been noticed, let alone fall in love with and marry the

In cinderlad a spotted bull gift Becan a feast that he pulls out of the bull's ear, after his stepmom and dad find out about it through his step sisters, they murder the bull thinking there is a feast inside of it while the sisters run to tell the parents about the spotted bull he gives becan (more on that later) his tail he says if anything goes wrong use it later on in the story he banishes a dragon with it saving the whole town in Grimm's version Cinderella has magical two magical doves that help her with many things for example the bids help her when she is told to pick up two dishes full of lentils (basically their little sunflower seeds) out of ashes and then she can go to the ball next she points out that the stepsisters are the wrong lady let me explain the prince come to the hose with a super tiny shoe they want to be royalty so they try the shoe on it is much to small for any of them so they cut off pieces of there foot to fit in the shoe, as the prince is riding away with the wrong madin the white doves point out “There they go, there they go! There is blood in the shoe; the shoe is too small, not the right bride at all!” to both of the step sisters but when Cinderella comes they say she is the right bride, the most famous part of the story also has the white doves involved where they... Peck out the stepsisters eyes,

Everything from music, to movies, and fairytales has been influenced by society. More specifically, society has influenced the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. The Grimm Brothers fairy tales would be considered dark and gruesome by today’s standards. Parents would not allow their own children near the stories, which caused society to give the tales a more PG feeling. The tales changed and became what we know them as today. Disney has played a major role in creating the innocent versions that today’s early generations have experienced. While they rarely admit it, societies, such as Disney, caused the original works of the Grimm Brothers to be overshadowed by their infantile adaptations.

A motif in the french version of cinderella is the damsel in distress proves identity. This is used when the prince finds Cinderella's shoe, and he is determined to find whos ever foot will fit in the glass slipper. Eventually the two stepsisters tried the slipper on, but it didn’t fit them. Cinderella then said let me try knowing that it was her slipper. It fit her perfectly. That is when she proves her identity to be the one who wore the slipper.This reveals something about Social

Once upon a time, didn’t happen the way everyone was told as a child. Though out time and cultures, the Grimm Brothers’ fairy tales children have grown up with, have been changed to fit the needs of individual cultures and families. Their influence stretches over geographic and linguistic boundaries leaving a mark on cultures around the world. The tales of damsels such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White are ones that are known by every generation, in almost every cultures around the world. These stories that are told now are not the ones told long ago in their home country of Germany. Many adaptations have been made to these three stories over time, for several reasons. Causes stretching from child appropriate stories, to action movies

1 Brothers Grimm Online) The little man then offered to spin the straw into gold for the girl for a price. The little man said “The price being your necklace.”, “my necklace?” the girl replied. (P. 1 Brothers Grimm Online)

Cinderella, by the Brothers Grimm, described the life of a maiden named Cinderella. Born to a loving family, Cinderella’s life had drastically changed when her ailing mother had perished from her disease. After the death of Cinderella’s mother, her father had married another woman, who had two daughters. Unfortunately, Cinderella’s step-mother and step-sisters were cruel to Cinderella, forcing her to wear rags and perform chores. Instead of voicing the abuse, Cinderella submissively endured the appalling treatment and had her value reduced to a servant. As years progressed, the king organized an extravagant ball for three days, designed to attract the prince to the maidens in the ball. Even though Cinderella desperately wanted to attend the ball, because of the cruelty of her step-sisters, Cinderella remained meek and was warned she would be severely punished if she didn’t sort the lentils. Rather than performing the task and arguing for her freedom, Cinderella wept and was helped by the pigeons. As the ball continued, the step-sisters were discontent with the completion of their tasks, so they resumed to mistreat Cinderella by requesting her to complete further preposterous tasks. However, the pigeons would resume assisting Cinderella, even advising her to shake the tree on her mother’s grave for the appropriate attire to attend the ball. Thanks to the pigeons and the tree, Cinderella attended the ball and established herself as the candidate of the prince’s affection,

Charles Perrault’s Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper was published in 1697. It is considered to be one the most prevalent reinterpretations of the classic story. Perrault’s version was “addressed largely to an adult and highly sophisticated audience” (Cullen 57). For this reason, Perrault seldom emphasizes the details of Cinderella’s mistreatment and instead shifts the stories’ focus on the moral and materialistic concerns related to his audience in order to “to please [his] aristocratic audience” (Tatar 189). Accordingly, Perrault portrayed Cinderella to be dependent, self-sacrificing, and “exhibits

Stories of love and sacrifice abound in literature. Perhaps one of the most well known stories among teens and adults is the tale of a poor, young couple struggling to find the perfect Christmas gifts for each other using their very limited means. They each manage to get what they think is the perfect gift for the other, but only accomplish this by selling a prized possession which effectively makes the new gifts impractical. This bittersweet narrative, “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, illustrates the moral idea that a person, motivated by nothing but love for another, can possess a willingness to give in a self-denying way which necessitates that the reader consider that wealth be measured by something more than having money