Charles Perrault's Cinderella

This animated version was produced by American Walt Disney between 1901 and 1966, the most popular one being the 1950 version. Charles Perrault is credited for the writing of this story along with other authors who have adapted and animated the story. It is thought that Cinderella was chosen for production because it is similar to the Snow White story, of which the film had been a huge success (Disney n.d.). Disney was going through financial difficulties when Cinderella was made. And the movie became one of the highest grossing films of the year upon its release at over $4 million. As the Disney studio's 12th animated feature, Cinderella was a critical and public success that's now one of the company's most iconic stories. With memorable

It has so many elements of the 1950 animated version but still based on Charles Perrault’s Cinderella. The movie was released in March, and was said to have grossed $542 million worldwide (Disney 2015). The story, told by the fairy godmother, opens with a background into the life of Ella as a little girl. As a young girl, she believes in fairies and magic; something her mother inculcates in her. She makes friends with different animals especially the mice. And the family lives on a lush and beautiful estate on the edge of the forest. Their lives look perfect until her mother suddenly falls ill. The doctor tells them she is dying, and while their hearts are breaking, Ella’s mother encourages her and makes her promise to be brave and kind to others. She tells while she lay dying; “Let me tell you the secret to overcoming life’s trials: have courage and be kind.” Years later, her father expresses his desire to remarry and she is all out for it, as a loving and supportive daughter she has always been. The father marries the widow of an old friend named Lady Tremaine, and she moves into the house with her two daughters, Anastasia and Drisella; two feisty and spoilt young women. All looks well until her father dies on his merchant

On one of those trips, she meets the prince, and they become acquaintances. She gets an opportunity to share her travails with someone outside of her home but she doesn’t. Here, Disney once again sell to us the oppressive patriarchal value of an ideal woman being few of words. Courage in Disney’s Cinderella is suffering in silence and dying of thirst right in the midst of the ocean. Also, Disney tells us that Cinderella is not only facing opposition is at home, the king of the land doesn’t want her as a wife for his son who has definitely fallen in love with