For hundreds of years the Grimm brothers fairy tales have been captivating readers all over the world. Although the Grimm brothers would surely be pleased with how their work has become spread throughout the world since their deaths, there is one thing that they would likely hate, and that is Disney's rewriting and changing of their fairy tales original forms to children's movies with no regard for the original aspects. Disney has taken two mens life work and turned it into something those men would be ashamed to be associated with.…
In cinderella this young teenage girl wants to live up to her dream, but never get's because of her stepmom and stepsisters. Always in the end she ends up achieving what she was trying to work so hard for in the beginning. In all conclusion the story of cinderella shows the theme in literature to be sometimes predictable and other times unrecognizable.…
Ashputtle and Cinderella are two fairytales that are very similar but also different. The theme of the stories are almost the same both step mothers are mean and so is the sisters for example when the stepmother called Ashputtle a sloven (dirty or untidy person) in Cinderella mean comments and actions were made to Cinderella and Ashputtle both. The sisters are rude and are in the way of Ashputtle and Cinderella getting to the ball. Cinderella is different in some ways in detail and theme like when she went in a giant pumpkin to the ball.…
Growing up I can remember how I felt after watching the Cinderella story. Inspired by the rags-to-riches fairy tale, I can remember hoping that maybe someday I could be like Cinderella. I never imagined the story I knew all-too-well would have been dramatically altered from its original version. Though the lesson remains the same, comparisons reveal numerous differences between Walt Disney’s Cinderella to the earlier Charles Perrault’s “Cinderella: Or the Glass Slipper”. Variations are noticed in characters, events, and outcomes of this world-famous…
“Why, Grandmother, what big teeth you have!” Almost anyone would recognize those words addressed to the big bad wolf in the fairy tale” Little Red Riding Hood,” just as most people would also recognize “Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo” as the words of the fairy godmother from “Cinderella.” What most people may not realize, however, is that although “Cinderella” and” Little Red Riding Hood” are both fairy tales often read to children as bedtime stories, “Cinderella” is actually a much better fairy tale because of the description of the main character, the kind of conflict involved, and the theme of that particular story.…
These days most fairy tales are told through a Disney filter of happiness and song. Reading the much darker original Grimm's Fairy…
Everyone knows the story of Cinderella, the girl who finds her prince with the help of a magical fairy god-mother, transforming her previously horrible life to a fabulous depiction of every little girls dream. Generations of children around the world have heard the story Cinderella countless times, however most people are unaware of the multiple versions of this legend. The European version of Cinderella ,“Aschenputtel” written by the Grimm Brothers consists of the female protagonist being treated as a servant, yet somehow manages to leave her cruel family behind for her Prince whom she lives happily ever after with. Another version of Cinderella is the Native American tale “The Algonquin Cinderella”, where the female protagonist is also mistreated by her family, however she is fortunate enough to “find” her own prince in her village. Although both stories present similar morals, both vary in details such as characters, settings,and use of magic.…
Fairytales: when someone says that word, the first thing that might come up in your mind is probably kid’s reading Cinderella. Fairytales’ simplicity and accuracy in delivering a moral to young kids and adults is wonderful. We’d give an adult a eerie look if we caught them reading a kids book on the train to themselves. The reason behind our thought is cause it’s a kids book why would an adult read it but behind all this is the difference of interpreting stories for adults and children. Stories like Juniper Tree, Snow White, and Little Red Cap include hidden messages through violence and imagery and dialogue. Fairy tales teach children how to grasp the meaning and power behind storytelling. In this paper I will discuss the vast ways in which a child and adult interpret fairytales. Its…
Obstacles that prevented Johannes from having a “normal” childhood included the threat posed by police, his father’s unemployment, and living in terrible conditions. However, he overcame these challenges and went on to lead a successful life.…
This assignment requires you to compare (meaning compare or contrast) two versions of the best known and most ubiquitous of all folk tales, the story of Cinderella. The two best known European versions of this tale are in your coursepack, those of Perrault and the Grimms. The coursepack also includes several other versions of the tale, selected from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. You can also locate your own version(s) of the story on the internet, in collections of folk and fairy tales found in libraries, even in picture book editions. If you do select your own version of the tale, please okay it with me to make sure it is a legitimate Cinderella story.…
The Grimm brother’s father was a successful lawyer, who died in 1796. After their father’s death, the Grimm brothers were left with all the household responsibilities. As the two eldest of six children, Jacob and Wilhelm became very mature and helped their family by taking all the responsibilities. They were very creative and intelligent. They used their intelligence and creativity for studies and writing. The Brothers Grimm wrote hundreds of fairy tales in their lifetime by using their own childhood experiences as reference. Because of the hard life they faced growing up, they faced many problems but were able to overcome them with their writing. The main purpose of the fairytale is to teach life lessons and themes which will help us in future. A common theme in fairy tales is that the princess is dominated by the terrible step mother and step sisters. Another theme that is common in fairy tales is that “Do good and good will come to you” and last but not the least “Girl Power”. Fairytales that have those reoccurring themes are Snow white, Cinderella, Beauty and the…
Cinderella was a Disney classic film made by Walt Disney in 1950. The Disney version of the Cinderella film was based on the protagonist of the French version of the tale by Charles Perrault, “Cinderella”, written in 1698. The movie is based upon a girl, a shoe, and a prince. The point of the movie was to see a beaten down, and abused young woman become a beautiful princess to a handsome prince. Despite her troubled past, she did not let it stop her ambitions.…
There are many versions to the famous fairy tale Cinderella. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s German version of Cinderella, “Aschenputtel,” is a household story of a young girl named Cinderella who eventually marries a prince. This specific version of Cinderella gave birth to the Walt Disney version of Cinderella that most Americans know today. However the stories are very different. The Grimm brothers’ version is much darker and gory then the classic American version. Small differences like this shed a different light on Cinderella and her journey to a “happy” ending.…
Intro: Fairy tales are things we know to be true. We are believed that if we have a hard life to grow into, a "prince" one day will come and give us a kiss and make it all better. "bring us back to life" if you will, as we grow up we open our eyes to the possibility of landing flat on our face and throwing up a poisonous apple and dealing with life on our own before our "prince" comes to save us.…
In contrast, there is Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and their tale of "Ashputtle". The German version, with its pagan magic, spell casting, and self mutilation is much more violent and aggressive. This style was obviously written for lower class citizens, peasants. Peasants would have a wedding celebration as opposed to a ball, and gold slippers were considered precious and invaluable to the audience, the idea of glass slippers would have been incomprehensible to them. The punishment of the stepsisters would leave a modern audience wondering, what happened to "happily ever after?" How can Cinderella possibly enjoy her happiness while carrying partial guilt for her step-sisters blindness? However, in the German culture of that era, the punishment was viewed as just and Cinderella would have her happiness without guilt.…