Cinderell Disney Vs. Grimm

In the movie Cinderella, Cinderella lives with her Wicked stepmother and two jealous stepsisters. They keep Cinderella enslaved and doesn't get a chance to attend the royal ball. Later her fairy godmother shows up magically transforms her look into a dream come true. Cinderella then sees the Prince Charming and enchants him at the ball. She then has to face the wrath of her stepmother and sister when the spell wears off at night. In this movie it shows how Cinderella was treated horribly, and one day the godmother came and changed her into the most beautiful princess, which made the prince fall in love with her. In the article Disney and Freud: Walt Meets the Id, Berland mentioned, “In Cinderella he eliminates

The tale of Cinderella is universally known, yet every telling of the story is tweaked ever so slightly. Changes, even if subtle, can create differences in the meaning or characteristics of the story. Some more popular versions, such as the Little Golden Book edition, the Grimm Brothers version, and Disney’s 2015 film adaptation have distinct traits of their own, along with some parallels between them. Despite the ostensible tedium of the three interpretations, each of them has its own theme, archetypes, and plot, which are occasionally shared between versions.

In her article, “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja illustrates the important role of parents in a childhood. She talks about the importance the mother plays in all versions of Cinderella as well as evidence showing what lack of parenthood does to children. Panttaja claims by way of the Grimms Brothers version of Cinderella and how each mother wants to guarantee a bright and happy future for their daughters by marrying them off to the prince. The similarities between the wanting of Cinderella and the stepsisters married- and doing anything to get it- contradicts the idea that Cinderella and her mother were morally superior, or different at all, from the stepmother and sisters.

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

Cinderella goes to her mother’s grave and cries about how poorly and inhumanely she is getting treated, she tries satisfying her wicked step-mother, but she is never successful. The Grimm brothers had a different audience to satisfy so their story tone is darker and deeper. Their main concern was for the audience to sympathize with Cinderella and emotionally connect with her.

There are many different versions of the classic story, Cinderella. Grimm’s version was just as wonderful, but had more twisted moments than Disney’s story. Both stories are about a girl who overcomes the cruelty of her evil stepmother and stepsisters and ends up living happily ever after. Although, there are many differences, there are three that stand out. The three main differences are, the father died in disney's version but did not die in Gimms version, there was no fairy godmother in Grimm's version but there was in Disney's, and in the original version the stepsisters cut their heels and toes off so it would fit in the slipper but in the Disney version they did not.

Have you ever had a dark and gloomy day? Imagine having that feeling every single day. The Grimm’s Cinderella was written in 1812. 1812 was one of the harshest years for America. An event that formed it was the war against Great Britain and the United States. Not only was there a war, but there was also a series of disastrous harvests. Taxes got higher, and more than twenty people who were involved with a Luddite Act were hung. In 1812, there was also the only assassination of a prime minister, who was shot dead in the House of Commons. The Grimm Brothers have put the dark times of 1812 into their stories. Some of their stories contain violence, child abuse, and wicked mothers. They came up with these types of stories after their father died, and when they struggled out of school. That gave them enough time to research and put together a collection of folk tales. Now you can see why the Grimm’s Cinderella was dark and gloomy. Although the plot stayed the same, over the years, the story did get lighter. Disney’s Cinderella came out in 1950. In 1950, learning information was not by fear, but by engaging happiness. Disney’s Cinderella transforms the Grimm’s Cinderella into a happier atmosphere. While some similarities between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are noticeable, the differences are pronounced, especially when referring to the slippers, her father, and the ball.

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

Most people cannot imagine coveted childhood fairytale with pure sadistic characters, blood, death and neglect. Disney motion pictures have depicted their classic fairytales by painting picture of princess with a loving parent, a dead parent, and a wonderful outlook on life with just the hope of dreams coming true. Many people cannot fathom the idea of a beloved fairytale containing the dark acts of rape, torture, and cannibalism. After all, Snow White’s apple was just meant to put her to sleep; and Sleeping Beauty did find her prince right? Wrong. In the original Grimm Fairytales Snow Whites apple was meant to kill her for good and Sleeping Beauty’s prince was

There are many differences between Grimm’s version and Lee’s version of Cinderella. The first difference in Grimm’s version is that the stepsisters are beautiful, and they have horrible personalities but in Lee’s version, they are also beautiful, but the stepsisters have a good

Walt Disney’s Cinderella is adapted from the original fairy tale written in 1697 by Charles Perrault. There are some key differences between Walt Disney’s Cinderella and Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. In Charles Perrault’s tale, Cinderella’s father is not dead, but the father is controlled by the stepmother. Cinderella’s younger stepsister is much more polite than the older stepsister, who calls Cinderella Cinderwench. The king in Perrault’s tale hosts a two day Ball, which Cinderella attends with the help of the fairy godmother. During Cinderella’s preparation for the first night of the Ball, Cinderella helps the fairy godmother find a coachman when the fairy godmother could not find one. Cinderella’s glass slipper comes off on the second

Cinderella’s step mother is not truly wicked, but simply misunderstood. The Grimm Brothers, who have been known many times before to alter reality, took the story of her daughters and stepdaughter and spun it into a work of fiction. Cinderella’s stepmother has sued Disney for the movie’s portrayal of her and her family and for taking things way out of proportion. Disney made Cinderella seem incapable of an indecent thought and far from able to plot revenge, which is far from the truth. Cinderella, which is not even her real name, was a strong willed and foul mouthed fourteen year old girl at the time of the ball.

For the sake of happily ever after, mass market books have gone the extra mile to incorporate that concept. Although in the most known versions Cinderella appears to forgive her stepsisters and stepmother, in the original version she does not forgive, nor have mercy, just justice. In versions such as “Rushen Coatie” and “The Cinder-Maid”, the sisters cut off their heels and toes in order to fit the slipper. Cinderella does not try to stop them nor have sympathy for them, proving the immense amount of change that has taken place. Yolen says that the mass-market American “Cinderella” has presented young children with the wrong dream of happily ever after. Newer versions have taken away the idea of thinking and acting for yourself. Wishes come true regardless of the way Cinderella has been transformed.

Cinderella by Grimm and its Disney version has the same plot and same main characters. Minor details are changed in the written fairy tale and its popular adaption but these changes can help to judge about the tendencies of the contemporary pop culture.

The story of Cinderella based on Hans-Christian Anderson’s version, portrays a young girl who was of “…unparalleled goodness and sweetness of temper.” After her mother’s death, her father remarried, “…his second wife was the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen.” The stepmother had two daughters who were, “exactly like her in all things.” The stepmother and stepsisters forced Cinderella to do all the hand work around the house such as scrubbing the floors. News was brought that the King’s son was going to hold a ball and immediately the step sisters began to find the most lavish dresses they could. For poor Cinderella, she was not permitted to go by the stepmother who said, “it would make people laugh to see a cinder wench at a ball” (Anderson).