Cinderella Compare and Contrast Essay

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

In both stories Cinderella’s mother died while she was still young, and her father re-married a vile woman with two equally wretched daughters who abused Cinderella. Further similarities include the event held by the King to find a bride for his son, the Prince and Cinderella receiving beautiful clothes and shoes to wear to the festivities. Also, in both stories the prince chose Cinderella without hesitation and her identity was not discovered by other party goers. A slipper was left behind in each story as well, which remained how the prince eventually discovered the mystery princess to be Cinderella so he could take her as his bride after many failed to make the fit.

The stepsisters were cruel to Cinderella therefore not receiving any happiness in the end. The step sisters attended Cinderella’s wedding “[They]...wanted to get into favour with Cinderella and share her good fortune” Since the stepsisters were obedient to someone who is not obeying natural order they get punished. “...the pigeons peck out one eye of each of them...afterwards they came back..the pigeons pecked out the other eye of each...thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness as long as they lived.” The stepmother was punished as well, it may not have been a physical punishment as the sisters received but she never really achieved power outside her home and that could possibly be worse to her than any physical punishment. Cinderella on the other hand got all of her “rewards” due to the fact she was obedient, but disobedient when it seemed

The Little Glass Slipper, Perrault’s version of Cinderella also has a different ending. The ending is happier and includes forgiveness. Although the step sisters were cruel and treated Cinderella horribly she forgave them in the end and even found good husbands for them, and they all lived happily ever after. You see from this that this story is intended to teach a moral lesson of forgiveness and kindness. In Perrault’s version you can be terrible and unpleasant but you will be forgiven because that’s part of life. The Grimm brothers however have a different point of view on that matter. They feel that what you do will come back to haunt you and you can’t be a sinful person and be forgiven. Cinderella was always kind and compassionate and she got rewarded for that, she married the prince and escaped her horrible life. She no longer weeps at her mother’s grave and cries herself to sleep. The step sisters on the other hand, even though Cinderella forgave them, they didn’t get forgiven by a higher

A biological orphan who endures obstacles on a daily basis, mentally and emotionally broken, physically drained, and yet still wakes up in the morning with a bright perspective and looks forward to the day. The classic story Cinderella is being delineated here, as a young kid, the happy ending is what usually remembered nothing additional, however in every story, she is crushed down solely to get up from the ashes from the fire her “family” lighted . “Cinderella”, the Grimm Brother’s version, the 2015 disney film version “Cinderella”, and the Little Golden Book Cinderella, have large similarities, however in every one of the story, there's one thing that stands out into its own fascinating version. The theme, archetypes, and the deaths in all

In the Disney movie to be more kid friendly there are signing working animals, unlike the Brothers Grimm version where the animals are mute. A large difference in the story is there is no fairy godmother. In the Disney movie there is a fairy godmother that makes Cinderella all the magnificent outfits and jewelry. She always sings a very catchy song for children entertainment. In the Brothers Grimm Cinderella gets the beautiful clothing and such from her dead mothers grave where every day she would lay and cry to her mother wishing everything was different.

The story of Cinderella can be traced back to a time before books, to the time of oral tradition. Although there are many versions of this story, the main purpose of the story stays the same; it is to teach a lesson about goodness. If you are good, then great things will happen to you, but if you are bad then you will be punished. There are two versions of this story that this essay will look at, the Disney’s version and Grimms’ version. Although there are many similarities, the differences between the two versions are striking and deserve to be addressed.

A beautiful young girl, leaves her two step sisters and her stepmother whom treated her poorly, marries a young prince, and she lives happily ever after. The fairytale of Cinderella has been one of the most told bedtime stories of all time. Most people can say they associate the story of Cinderella with the 1950 version of Walt Disney. Many people are oblivious of the many versions of this fantasy tale. The original fairytale of Cinderella, by the Brother’s Grimm, was written in 1812 which had many differences from the Walt Disney version. Like most of Walt Disney’s films, they are produced to capture the attention of a certain type of audience, the young. Since Disney films are targeted to the young, they conclude with a romance and happy ending. Unfortunately, because of such endings, the original story is being manipulated taking away from its original content. One of the scenes that have been changed from its original version are the different rolls of Cinderella’s parents, Cinderella’s godmother, Cinderella’s character and the stepsisters punishment for being cruel to Cinderella. I believe that Walt Disney changed some of the original parts of the Brother’s Grimm version of the story due to some the graphic scenes, which did not stay faithful to the original version of Cinderella. Walt Disney wanted to make the story as “ kid-friendly” as possible to attract more audience.

They force Cinderella to help them hem dresses for the ball. Cinderella hopes to go to the ball but can’t because she has no dress but her animal friends make one for her. When Cinderella comes down ready to go to the ball, her stepsisters start yelling and rips her mother’s dress into pieces. In Grimm’s Cinderella, her stepsisters are breathtakingly beautiful. They once again treat Cinderella like a slave and has her hem their dresses.

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.

Cinderella’s relationship with her dad is very distant after he gets married to the evil stepmother. Therefore, Cinderella is a very neglected daughter that is constantly abused mentally and physically, by the stepmother and stepsister, because of the housework and tasks she had to complete. Consequently, right after Cinderella was done with her beginning tasks the stepsisters would give her an even harder task. This showed the stepsisters had no sympathy for cinderella's well being and it also showed how wicked the stepsisters were. In spite of all the problems Cinderella had with her stepsisters and stepmother his dad decided to travel to the fair and when he was about to leave Cinderella's dad asked her stepsisters and her if they liked

The last difference between the two stories is quite disturbing. In Disney’s Cinderella, when it came time to try on the slipper the two stepsisters tried their hardest to squish their feet into it. However, Grimms version is drastically different. Instead of trying to just squish their feet in, one step sister cut the heel of her foot off and the other cut her big toe off. A reason to why Brothers Grimm might have included that part is because they wrote this story in 1812. Disney did not want to have that in their version of the story because of the audience that watches, such as little children and their families. It would not be as enjoyable nor as humorous if they included that gruesome part of Grimm’s story.

After the ball Disney ends their story with the prince searching for the maiden who fits the shoe. Cinderella is locked away so she wouldn’t be able to try it on the glass slipper and then is rescued by her furry friends. She then shows that the shoe is indeed hers and she and the prince live happily ever after. In Grimm’s version, although a lot more graphic, we are told that in a desperate attempt to fit the coveted shoe, the step-sisters cut off pieces of their feet and trick the prince until two crows relay him a message exposing their deficit. The crows then pluck out the eyes of the step-sisters and they, along with their black-hearted mother, are left as beggars. Disney’s version doesn’t go into detail about the consequences of the Cinderella’s step relatives.

     In the movie “Cinderella,” Cinderella is a maid to an evil stepmother and two very heartless and obnoxious stepsisters. The only reason that Cinderella still puts up with their orders is an example of the Behavioral perspective. The Behavioral Perspective puts emphasis on learning by experience with rewards and punishments. She knows that if she does not do the chores, she will be punished or thrown out of the household. She does not have anywhere to go because her mother and father have passed away. Because Cinderella is a genuinely kind human being who wishes to please, she usually does not stick up for herself against the others in the household. She is used to taking on the brunt of

In “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja makes a claim that the Grimms’ version of “Cinderella” provides reasons that Cinderella may not have been so fortunate due to her being “good and pious.” One main point that she discusses within the article is the mother/daughter relationship Cinderella shares with her deceased mother, in comparison to the mother/daughter relationship shared between the stepmother and stepsisters. Panttaja argues that the mothers in each relationship are both motivated by the same thing, “to ensure a future of power and prestige for their daughter” (Panttaja). Panttaja continues to identify how both mothers’ motives are similar, but her argument falters when she attempts to bring Cinderella’s