Grimm's Rapunzel Vs. Tangled

Gothel learns of Rapunzel’s secret lover in “Rapunzel” when Rapunzel makes a comment about Gothel being much heavier than the prince. In Tangled, Mother Gothel discovers Rapunzel’s disobedience when she returns to the tower, only to find Rapunzel gone and the hidden bag with the crown. Gothel becomes resolved to find Rapunzel and bring her back before she discovers anything that would make her doubt Gothel. When her attempt to convince Rapunzel to return fails, she instead decides to trick Rapunzel, who has fallen in love with Flynn, into thinking he abandoned her in an attempt to regain Rapunzel’s loyalty. This attempt works, and Rapunzel returns with Gothel to the

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

Peering into the treasure chest, a small gasp slipped out of Belle’s mouth as she began to see the truth about her friends. Laying on a crimson cloth was a book titled “Cinderella”. Delighted to find one of her favorite fairy tales, Belle sat under a tree and began to read. Her delight soon turned to disgust as she realized it was not the fairy tale she loved. Overcome at the gruesome, gory details of this version, Belle quickly slammed the

the child that it will always make her unquestionably love him. In the book, The Glass Castle,

in an enchanting voice and gave them thrones to sit on and honey to eat. But as

The dwarves are amazed by the girl’s beauty and allow her to stay with them forever as long as she handles all the household chores. Snow White happily obliges and begins to take care of the dwarves. Unfortunately, the evil step-mother gets word of Snow White’s death being a fraud and makes three attempts to trick and fool the princess. On the third attempt, the old hag is successful and upon biting in to a deliciously plump red apple sends Snow White tumbling to the ground. The seven dwarves decide Snow White is to captivating to be buried underground so they decided to encase her in glass and take turns guarding her remains. One day a handsome prince happens to come across the beautiful dead princess and begs the dwarves to let him purchase her. Reluctantly, the dwarves give the prince Snow White and a bump on the transport home causes the poisonous apple to fall out of her mouth and the princess magically comes back to life. The prince marries Snow White, and the evil step mother is forced to dance in hot-iron boots until she dies.

The story of Rapunzel, by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, has the same basic structure as all other fairy tales born from the oral tradition; what is commonly referred to as the opening, main part and ending, is the foundation of the tale.

It is “a beautiful princess is kept captive by a witch, who uses the girl’s long hair to climb in and out of a tower prison, and it’s only when she meets a man that she gets to escape. Where as in the original text, it starts out when Rapunzel’s father is stealing from the witches’ garden and gets caught. As a result of his carless actions, the witch tells him that he has to hand over his first born child. Once Rapunzel is born and is given to the witch, a prince finds her locked up in a tower on day as he is walking by. He continues to come and see her secretly, and the witch finds out because she gets pregnant.

The fact that he is first drawn to her voice rather than her appearance seems to suggest an attraction more to who she is rather than anything physical. Her “voice” may be symbolic of Rapunzel’s thoughts and personality. However, the first time the prince finds Rapunzel, he is obviously unprepared to proceed into this facet of his life. He searches for a door through which to reach her but is

Then she could marry the prince. In The Orphan, she stepped in earwax and other sticky stuff. So, one of her shoes fell off and she took off. Then the prince found her and they got

Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm also known as the Grimm brothers are historically known for their uniqueness both in their styles of writing and the exceptional illustrations of their works. Their age old literature has been told and retold with the essence of gothic architecture and contemporary children's stories for decades now. This essay will contrast the Grimm brothers story of Rapunzel and Disney's story of Rapunzel, it will also include comparing their illustrations with Molly Bang's theory.

On her eighteenth birthday, when Gothel was away, a guest visited her: Flynn Rider- the hunted thieve for stoling the princess' crown. When runing away from the guards, he saw the tower and climb up there for a place to hide. He saw Rapunzel. She was suprised and hit him with the pan. While he fainted, she recognized something bag he was wearing: a crown. It was beautiful. But then she hid it. When he woke up, trapted in ropes, she got a deal with him: she will return him his crown if he will be her guard and take her outside to see the lightsand bring her home safety. After a long negociation, he agreed. He take her out side of the tower and bring her to town. This is the first time she ever sees anything this lively. People in the kingdom was celebrating and commemorate the missing princess: the flags ( of the kingdom), music, drawings, flowers, bread and sweets are everywhere. Everybody looks so happy and they were having fun with eachother. Flynn and Rapunzel joined them, they dance and draw and play for the whole day! Forgot to mentioned, Rapunzel was pretty good at

She told the creepy twins that were arrested that if they help her find Rapunzel that she would help them find Flenn. So the night the Flenn took her to see the stars, and the twins showed up and took Flenn. After that rapunzel

Maleficent: Born in the confines of the Forbidden Mountain; Maleficent lived in a ruined castle at the top of the mountain's peak. Over the years, Maleficent ruled her kingdom with an iron fist, harnessing her dark magic and plotting schemes against King Stephen. During a ceremony celebrating the birth of Princess Aurora; three fairies named: Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather arrive to bless the child with gifts. Before Merryweather has a chance to give the child a gift, an outraged Maleficent appears in the castle. Angered by the fact she wasn't invited; Maleficent, places a curse on the King's daughter, stating: before the sun sets, she will die on her 16th birthday after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. After fifteen

was her daughter. Mathilde spent the evening in a cloud of happiness and it was four in the