Compare And Contrast Brothers Grimm And Perrault

The Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault are both very well-known authors of fairytales. Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are usually the most recognized in our society, but Perrault has his own version of many of the same tales. These authors have very different methods and styles of writing, as well as differences in morals of their stories. Here I will assess some of the differences between certain tales, as well as provide some background behind the authors. Charles Perrault was born in 1628 and was of French descent. He was from a very wealthy family. His father was a lawyer, and his three brothers grew up to have successful careers as well. Perrault was able to attend the best schools, but preferred to be self-taught so he dropped out of

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

In Little Tom Thumb, a man and his wife had seven sons, the youngest and smallest being Tom Thumb. When the parents ran out of money, they decided to abandon the boys in the woods. This happened twice. The second time they could not find their way home, but they came across a house that they wanted to stay in. They needed protection from wolves that could potentially eat them overnight. This house happened to belong to an ogre and his wife. The wife snuck the boys in and tried to convince the ogre not to eat them. He initially agreed, but at night accidently killed his seven daughters instead of the boys, all thanks to little Tom Thumb tricking him. Tom Thumb and his brothers escaped the next day, and he tricked the ogre’s wife into giving him all their riches which he brought home to his