Original Vs Disney Fairy Tales

These are just two examples out of many. The versions of fairy tales by Grimm and Disney are always similar in nature and moral. The differences in the details of the story range from minute to highly significant. The punishments placed upon the villains are always

Read the Grimm Brother's Cinderella ( National Geographic web site.) and at least one other version of the story (see course materials for a list--remember, Disney versions are not a choice for this comparison.) How are the versions similar? Different? Appropriate response is one to two well developed paragraphs.

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.

‘Boxes’ is a short story that focuses on the limits that people are confined to either by their own doing or by society; it is a story about physical and psychological boxes that they put their emotions and true feeling into. The story focuses on the mother who, plagued by depression, contains her emotions and relies on lies and manipulation to achieve her goals; her son, the narrator, who cannot bring himself to ‘unbox’ his true feelings about his mother; and Jill, whom serves as a foil to both characters by having no walls or barriers.

A lot of the fairy tale stories that we have seen as young adults and even as adults are original folk tale stories that have been modified and rewritten to accommodate our new cultures. Cinderella happens to be one of these stories that have been changed over the years. There are many different versions of Cinderella, an African Cinderella, a Hungarian Cinderella and even a Chinese version. All of the Cinderella’s are similar in plot, but the author dictates the story’s theme based on the people whom he is writing for which completely changes the story’s tone, mood and other elements. While Perrault's version stresses the values and materialistic worries of his middle-class audience, Grimm’s' focus is on the harsh realities of life

Cinderella Then and Now The original Cinderella collected by the Grimm Brothers is very different than Disney’s Cinderella. The version collected by the Grimm Brothers was first oral tradition than written down long after oral tradition. While both the original version and the Disney version of Cinderella talk about true love and a story from rags to riches, the Grimm Brothers’ version is more gruesome while Disney’s version is also about love, it talks about what you need to have the courage and be kind. The original version of Cinderella is very different than the newest version of Cinderella that came out in 2015.

In many of the well-known fairy tales one may remember reading as child, such as Walt Disney's Cinderella or Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, there is a prevalent evil figure that governs the princess throughout these tales. This figure is usually cruel, wicked, envious, and not biologically related to the princess. They are better known throughout the history of fairy tales as the wicked stepmother. The wicked stepmother is known for her most evil acts such as poisoning her stepdaughter with a red apple in the 2003 version of Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Likewise, in the 2005 version of Cinderella, the stepmother forces Cinderella to be the house servant and keeps her locked in the basement.

Differences are in Perrault’s version he stresses the values and materialistic worries of the middle-class while Grimm’s version focus on harsh realities of life associated with the peasant culture. Also, Grimm’s version the help that Cinderella gets do not come from the fairy god-mother but the wishing tree that grows on her mother grave; stepsisters try to trick the prince by cutting off parts of their feet in order to get the slippers and not like other versions by just simply trying the shoe on. Another is the prince is alerted by two pigeons who peck out the stepsisters eyes, and also in the Grimm’s version the prince get tricked twice but spared by the birds. In which this lowers the prince’s status and he seems less heroic, and raising Cinderella’s status as a strong-willed individuals. Brothers Grimm portrays Cinderella as a headstrong orphan who becomes a heroine by standing up for herself even though it may result in punishment in which is completely different from the other versions because the prince try to find Cinderella and become the heroic person. Also, the writing style is different which completely modifies the tale.

When comparing the Grimm Brothers story and Disney’s version, they have three major differences. By Disney changing Cinderella from the original Grimm version, they were taking the dark and twisty parts and changing them into a more enjoyable scene. The changes between the two stories are so drastic you might have never thought Disney’s Cinderella was originally based off of Grimm’s written version,

In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway almost every character seems dissatisfied with their life, thinking that they aren’t living their it to the fullest. Most people during this time tried to escape the reality that a war had just occurred by doing things like drinking or traveling. Although it might have seemed like they were having fun, they were actually feeling like they were throwing their life away. The audience can see an example of this in chapter II when Cohn says to Jake, “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it” (18.) Jake replies “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters” (18.) This interaction shows how Cohn feels like he is wasting his life away and Jake agrees

The Grimm version and the Disney version of Cinderella both include punishment to the stepsisters for how they treated Cinderella and they both exemplify the theme. For example, in both versions, the stepsisters do not get to what they want,which is to marry the prince and for Cinderella not to be happy. The Disney version kept it this way because that is basically the story. If the

Where do we get Disney fairytales from? This is a question that ponders the minds of many people. Most stories date back to the 17th century in France where high intellectualized and literary figured men branched out transversely in long distances, stimulating communication, by trading letters, called the Republic of Letters. Not long after, women decided to do the same but instead of being all over the place, they gathered in meetings in Salons. A Salon played a cynical role in during the 17 the century because it was a place of study, notably of literature, that was dominated by mostly high-classed women. One of these high-classed women, Madame d 'Aulony, was a noble who was a part of the Salon community and went through wild

Adults shelter children to contain them in a state of innocence and a life of freedom. Many movies shelter children by conveying unrealistic worlds. Especially, Disney Animated Features, these animations obtain elements from classic fairy tales to retell the stories. The adaptations lose many important elements from in the originals; elements that aren’t seen as “child-appropriate”. These elements that aren’t classified as “child-appropriate” were written for children. However, classic fairy tales can do that as well by changing a mother to a stepmother. These changes affect the originals’ relationship to real-life events, such as cannibalism, pedophilia, rape and an unhappy ending. The Brothers Grimm’s Snow White, Hans Christian Andersen’s

Disney fairy tales, sweet and seemingly innocent tales, are they causing children to lack certain knowledge that they need or are they helping our children? When one thinks of Disney fairy tales they might think of Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty and have happy thoughts, but would they have the same thoughts if they knew that these tales were derived from the rather gruesome Grimm’s Fairy Tales? Did Disney actually hinder children’s learning by watering down these tales and sheltering the children from the dark realities of the world? Does teaching little girls that princesses are treated like royalty and everything works out, in the end, make their expectations too high?

While researching a topic for this paper I thought about all of the fairy tales and concepts we discussed in class and decided to compare the Grimm Brother’s Cinderella and Andersen’s Little Mermaid. I decided to research these two fairy tales because they were the two main stories that I read and watched as a child, and because the original stories are completely different than what I have grown up with. The two stories start out in similar ways, a young girl longing to go somewhere and experience things that are unfamiliar to them; however, these stories end up going in two completely different directions. I would like to focus on how the two main characters compare in their own curiosity and how both characters are trying to become something more than they are.