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Compare and contrast versions of cinderella by grimm brothers and disney
Compare and contrast disney cinderella and grimm cinderella
Narrative essay about cinderella
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The interpretation of Cinderella made by the Grimm’s brothers was a much more gruesome, straight forward, and non-filtered story than Disney’s interpretation. As each version was written for different audiences. The Grimm brothers displayed a reality version through sad emotions, graves, blood, knives, and so on. All while the Disney version uses magic, a fairy godmother, cute little mice, and so on. Through all of these little figures the Disney’s version is able to show everyone living happily ever in this perfect little world. Although there are multiple changes through the Grimm’s brothers’ version and Disney’s version, both still hold the same basic outline and moral that they story first displayed.
In the book they display a grave where Cinderella weeps, while in the movie they use a fairy godmother who cheers up Cinderella. This is taking a whole new aspect on the mother’s death and displaying a “she’s in a better place,” and guardian angel in the movie. They use this whole fairy godmother aspect as such a positive character in the movie. The Grimm brothers although
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wanted to show the reality of having a dead mom and crying at her grave instead of being happy when she is close. The slippers even played a huge role throughout these stories too.
The physical aspect was different from being embroidered with silk and silver in the Grimm’s brother version. Through Disney’s version although they are glass slippers. In both versions Cinderella loses her shoe on the way out from the ball and the prince starts his quest to find the girl he danced with. The quests go different through both versions. In Disney’s version the shoe simply does not fit the step sisters feet, they just shove her foot in to get it to fit. This is much better way to display what the Grimm brothers were trying to display. In their version they cut off a bit of one of the step sister heel off and in the other step sister cut her toe off. As you can tell this was a much more gruesome way of the story. This is just another example of how Disney’s version sugar codes reality and makes it the perfect
world. The ending of these two stories as well follow the same guidelines but displays different views. The ending in the movie displays the perfect ending, finding his girl, falling in love, getting married, forgiving everyone, and then everyone living happily ever after. While in reality forgiveness happens but is rare and is not displayed in the Grimms’ version. Instead the step sisters get their eyes plucked out by pigeons.
As it is clear these two versions of Cinderella are very similar but are still different versions. As Stephanie Gilmore said ¨Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human can do. It puts your whole world into
A young girl is forced to live with her step-mother and step-sisters after her father and mother die. She becomes the maid of the family, tending to their every need. Eventually there is a ball; she acquires a fairy Godmother, goes to the ball, falls in love with the prince, blah blah blah. All you really need to know is that she has a happy ending. A happy ending. No matter how much suffering she went through in her early years, at the end, it all came together and she had no more worries. And this is the problem. Cinderella is not realistic. It never was and never will be. Watching this movie when I was young made me believe there was a prince waiting for me somewhere. I grew up thinking that life was simple and uncomplicated, that I did not need to worry about the future because there was a man that would provide everything I wanted and needed. But as I got older, I realized this was not the case. I saw many of my friend’s parents divorce, people die, and the world fight with each other. My fantasy died off, and I realized I had to work hard for myself, and not others. The poem Cinderella by Anne Sexton made fun of the ending of Cinderella. She states, “Cinderella and the prince / lived … happily ever after … / their darling smiles pasted on for eternity. / Regular Bobbsey Twins. / That story.” (Sexton 11). Notice who she referenced and how she has a sarcastic tone. Cinderella and the prince smiled for others, trying to convince
Most, if not all, know about the Disney Cinderella, but believe it or not there are variations on this classic tale. Even though there are many variations to this story, we're only going to compare and contrast the Ireland Version and the Norway versions. The Ireland version, The Irish Cinderella, and the Norse version, Katie Woodencloak, are very different and similar especially in society and theme.
There are many versions of Cinderella, and according to Cinderella History, there are between 350 and 1500 different versions. Each version is different in some way, such as the plot or characters, yet similar too. In the Brothers Grimm version titled “Aschenputtel” and the Perrault version titled “Cinderella,” there are many differences and similarities. The differences have made society’s view of Cinderella different; between “Cinderella” and “Aschenputtel,” the differences are quite obvious, which makes each story unique. The most noticeable differences between Aschenputtel and Cinderella are the characters, the clothing, and the fate of the stepsisters.
The first clear difference is seen in the format the versions are written in. While the Grimm’s is written in prose, Sexton’s is a poem, with many stanzas and a few rhyme schemes as well. Despite the stories being similar, this format helps Sexton, who was a poet, separate her version from that of the Grimm’s, and helps her story create its own original identity. The Grimm’s prose form allows a more straightforward approach to its audiences, while Sexton’s poem helps it give the story a deeper meaning. Another major difference was Sexton’s addition of a new introduction and conclusion to her story. The poem starts off by mentioning other stories and fictional tales, but ends with truthful statements that show just how fictional the relationship between Cinderella and the prince is, like “Regular Bobbsey twins” (Sexton 79). Sexton also breaks the fourth wall in some instances, mostly to show her cynical and sarcastic attitude towards her story’s own character, Cinderella. In comparison, the Grimm’s Cinderella is shown to be the typical goody-two shoes damsel in distress, which every girl should try to be like. Sexton’s commentary in her poem changes this attitude towards Cinderella, and instead makes Cinderella look like the fragile, naïve, and helpless woman that she is. These divergences are what grab new and old readers of either the fairy tale genre, or Cinderella’s story alike. Old readers get to experience new elements and a fresh take on an old story, while newer readers can find it easier to understand and follow through Sexton’s story and the ideas it’s trying to convey. All these contrasting elements help change Sexton’s versions tone and connotations, despite the stories being very
Growing up as a little black girl, I rarely found dolls or princesses that looked like me. It was until I ran across the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s version of Cinderella movie starring the African American pop star Brandy as Cinderella. The made-for-television film was a remake of the Julie Andrews R&H Cinderella. But even the Julie Andrews version was based off the ancient folk tale. Although the movies are very similar, both films have a very unique touch to them.
Snow White and Cinderella are the heroines of the said tales and they have similar family situations, and also, Cinderella beats Snow White in terms of intelligence and mental sufferings. First of all, they’re so gorgeous that even their names remind the readers of beauty, they’re daughters
Even though the time periods are very different (by 200 years) the formulas for their fairy tales seems to remain constant. Character development, which is very important in fairy tales is both well done and accurately portrays the living situation for a character in the time period of when it was written. Perrault's version seems to put Cinderella's family in a higher, well-off situation of the Grimm's because she is still abided to obey the rules that her dying mother had set for her. Something that you would see a women do in the late 1600's. Her higher class and the rules of her generation has set her to not have revenge on her step-sisters and helps them marry in the end, making a happy ending to the story for everyone. This also gives off the rules of the time to the young girls who would be listening or reading this story back then. They knew their place in society and tales like Perrault's reinforced it. The Grimm's version, titled Ashenputtle, has key elements in the story line that make it very different from Perrault's Cinderella. The theme becomes very different as the end of the tale results in revenge on the step-sisters from Ashenputtle. This variation in the story line represents the setting in which the Grimm's either lived in themselves, or the living situation of the people who related this tale to the Grimm's.
Unquestionably, the Grimm's tale is the darkest between the two as denoted by Aschenputtel's sisters cutting their feet in an attempt to wear the slipper to marry the prince (Aschenputtel p 63) and ending with Aschenputtel's sisters being blinded by the magical birds which helped her throughout (Aschenputtel p 64). In contrast, Cinderella's first actions upon acknowledgement of her newfound stature in life were to grant forgiveness to the very sisters, which caused her so much pain.
It is more obvious in this tale than others, but some of these aspects are the nickname of Cinderella, the evil stepfamily, the three balls, and the beautiful slipper. However, Perrault and the brothers Grimm made some parts of the story very different. In the Grimm’s version, Cinderella’s mother was very important to her and she was very important to her father, while in Perrault’s her mother is not even mentioned and her father is more attached to his new wife than he is to his daughter. Perrault described the stepsister’s as less beautiful than Cinderella, while the brothers Grimm described them as just as beautiful but with bad personalities. Another major difference was Cinderella’s magic helper. In Perrault’s story Cinderella had a fairy godmother that gave her horses, a carriage, footmen to escort her, and new beautiful clothes, and in Grimm’s story her magic helper was birds that only provided clothes. A main difference that a lot of people would notice is the fact that in the Grimm’s tale Cinderella’s slipper was made of gold, and in Perrault’s it was glass which is what most people are familiar with. The endings of the stories also differed. The Grimm’s version ended in a much darker way. Both stepsisters got their eyes pecked out and were doomed to live a life of blindness, which was clearly not a very child friendly way to end a story. In
There once lived a beautiful girl whose father married a mean step mother with two daughters. With the help from her fairy god mother she was able to marry a prince and live happily ever after. That summary of Cinderella was the one I used to watch as a kid made by Disney but that’s not the only. There are a lot of other versions of this story made in Germany, Egypt, and China. But the two that really stick out are the France version written by Charles Perrault and the Iraqi. The French and Iraqi versions of Cinderella have many similarities and differences because they have similarities like god mother figures, mean step mothers, and magical transformations.
... supports this claim by showing how the female character’s speeches are reduced dramatically while the male character’s speeches increase dramatically. Bottigheimer later supports this by comparing Cinderella’s speeches from the 1812 version and the 1857 version. Bottigheimer states, “The 1857 version presents a far different picture. Here Cinderella has nearly lost her filial voice responding only to her father’s inquiry about what he should bring her from his trip” (62). She goes on to say, “In depriving Cinderella of her voice, Grimm has further isolated her within the tale, relegating nearly all her talk with people to indirect discourse, but leaving her the unvarying incantations addressed to birds and tree” (63).
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 associated with the peasant culture. Perrault’s and Grimm’s Cinderella’s have the same plot, but their writing style is different which completely modifies the tale.
Even though the two versions are extremely similar, they contain slightly different morals. When the Grimm Brothers wrote their story, the world was a different place and children did not need to be babied. That is why they chose to write such a cruel ending to their version. In the modern-day Cinderella, there is a profusion of magic and there is no violence, which is a change from the original story. By changing this and the ending, children receive a different message from the story. However, both stories give kids hope that they will live happily ever after.
Some of the exact differences between the different versions include, the fact that in the story we see that after the mother dies the father is still alive but he stays alive throughout the story and does not love his daughter the same as the other two girls. Whereas in the Disney version the father dies and that is when the stepmother and the two stepdaughters start to treat (Cinderella/ashputtle) differently. In the movie ?Ever After? we see that the father also dies and again that is when the evilness in the family comes out. A few other differences that were discussed include the differences in the prince's portrayal, in one version he was outgoing and honest, and in another he was very shy, and reserved but very dedicated.