Cinderella And Disney Differences

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Fairy tales teach children valuable lessons that will later on guide them as they grow up. Despite the traditional damsel in distress fairy tale formation, these stories can be easily changed to accommodate the culture and time period in which they are told. Essentially, they are often modified to reflect the needs of a society. This modification is most prominently shown between the shown between the works of the Grimm Brothers and their Disney adaptations. While both works share similar ideas, they are perceived differently within society due to the obvious contrast between the stories being told. Disney takes these Grimm’s tales and alters the dark tones and original messages to make them suitable for a younger audience. Examples of these …show more content…

Due to the time period gap of 253 years, the story of Cinderella was changed by Disney for the purpose of making it more child friendly and to possibly make more income. Because of this change/greed, there are many psychological elements of the original story that have been lost and in which, it loses the true values and lessons the Cinderella story once had. In both tales, there is a beautiful girl, who is forced to be the slave/maid of the family by her wicked step-mother and step-sisters. The prince announces that he will be having a royal ball and after being denied the permission to attend the ball by her step-family, she disobeys and miraculously eventually does attend the royal ball where she meets Prince Charming and lives happily-ever-after, after passing the shoe fitting test (of course). There are a few ideas in which the original and the adaptation share in common such as the characters, talking animal and the few basic plot points, other than that, there are no other similarities. In the Disney adaptation, Disney puts in singing, music and a mythical fairy-godmother that will grant ones every wish and turn pumpkins into carriages. Disney also puts in the idea that happily-ever-after is accomplishable with the help of magic and disobedience. Unlike the unrealistic Disney adaptation, the original Grimm’s version of the story has a better grasp on …show more content…

While the story of Snow White does not show many differences between the two versions, there are certain aspects of the story that have been changed. One difference between the two is that in the Grimm Brother’s tale, the focus is on Snow White and what is being done to her and her sufferings as a pre-adolescent, but Disney shifts the focus of the story between Snow White and the Queen. This focus shifting takes away from the problems Snow White faces and causes a bit of an inconsistent and broken story line. Another difference shown is that the struggles Snow White faces as a child contains more psychological depth in the Grimm Brothers version since it displays the struggles of a seven year old child stuck between pre-adolescence and adolescence, while at the same time it shows the issues that can be caused by narcissism, both in children and in parents. The way that Disney chooses to tell the story leaves out how Snow White in the beginning is actually seven years old of age and how she has to grow up and do housework. This part of the story may be important to a child since it might cause them to realize that their childhood will eventually end. The Disney version also seems to focus more on the “modern” woman of the time rather than on the actions of the narcissistic queen or on the struggles of Snow White. Disney’s version mainly focuses on the labor, and the hard

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