Cinderella Modern Day

The Disney version of the story, Cinderella, illustrates a different moral than that of the original story. This story believes an ideal child should do what they are told and follow directions and in the end they will reap the rewards. In this story, Cinderella’s mother dies and her father remarries to a woman who has two daughters. While the daughters are pampered, Cinderella must work to keep the house from falling into disrepair. She befriends the animals and they help her to get ready to go to the ball by finishing her chores and making her a dress. When the evil stepsisters discover the dress they become furious because the mice used trimming from their clothing when making the dress. In revenge, the stepsisters rip the dress, leaving Cinderella out of options and out of hope. Just as Cinderella is about to give up, her fairy godmother appears and with a wave of magic creates a dress and turns a pumpkin and the mice into a horse and carriage. The only problem is that everything will turn back to what it was beforehand at midnight. Cinderella and the Prince fall in love at the ball but she must quickly leave because the

The Little Glass Slipper, Perrault’s version of Cinderella also has a different ending. The ending is happier and includes forgiveness. Although the step sisters were cruel and treated Cinderella horribly she forgave them in the end and even found good husbands for them, and they all lived happily ever after. You see from this that this story is intended to teach a moral lesson of forgiveness and kindness. In Perrault’s version you can be terrible and unpleasant but you will be forgiven because that’s part of life. The Grimm brothers however have a different point of view on that matter. They feel that what you do will come back to haunt you and you can’t be a sinful person and be forgiven. Cinderella was always kind and compassionate and she got rewarded for that, she married the prince and escaped her horrible life. She no longer weeps at her mother’s grave and cries herself to sleep. The step sisters on the other hand, even though Cinderella forgave them, they didn’t get forgiven by a higher

Everyone knows the “Cinderella” story, right? In the Grimm, and Disney’s “Cinderella” there is a girl that is basicly a servant to her mean stepmother and stepsisters, goes to a ball, and falls in love with a prince and lives happily ever after. This is only one of many different “Cinderella” stories. All of these stories have the same concept with the same purpose, to entertain, what sets them apart are the different details they use.

According to Anne T. Donahue’s article “9 Cinderella Stories You Might Not Know” which was published in the March 13, 2015 Refinery29, “Cinderella has come a long way from its origins as a tale about persecution and the dangers of systemic oppression. Dating back to the first century, what was once a story about a Greek slave girl becoming an Egyptian queen has evolved into something much more magical, romantic, and ultimately

Cinderella is a folktale that dates back as an Ancient Chinese story and many versions have evolved over the centuries including a more graphic version by the Grimm Brothers and “the French version by Charles Perrault that Disney adapted for screen” (Stahl). This is the most familiar version due to success of the Disney film. The storyline of Cinderella is predictable but one can not help adore the fantasy. Cinderella was mistreated by her step mother and sisters while her father is away. They made her work tirelessly.

Today, fairy tales are maudlin. When Disney recreated the story of Cinderella, they focused on the idea of a happily ever after. They did not concentrate on the horror Cinderella faced. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Cinderella” showed the malicious attitudes that Cinderella encountered from her stepfamily and soon her father. Readers can effortlessly recognize Cinderella was emotionally abused by her father, stepmother, and step-sisters.

There are many different versions of the classic story, Cinderella. Grimm’s version was just as wonderful, but had more twisted moments than Disney’s story. Both stories are about a girl who overcomes the cruelty of her evil stepmother and stepsisters and ends up living happily ever after. Although, there are many differences, there are three that stand out. The three main differences are, the father died in disney's version but did not die in Gimms version, there was no fairy godmother in Grimm's version but there was in Disney's, and in the original version the stepsisters cut their heels and toes off so it would fit in the slipper but in the Disney version they did not.

In this particular film, Lady Tremaine, Cinderella’s wicked stepmother, Anastasia, and Drizella, her evil stepsisters, treat Cinderella as their servant. Her stepmother seeks to punish and abuse her psychologically, due to the overgrown jealousy of Cinderella being far more beautiful than her own daughters. Cinderella finally has a voice in this film, but does not talk back or stand up for herself, rather she spends much of her time dreaming and wishing (Wilson 2015).This animated film is a close adaptation of Charles Perrault’s tale “Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper,” as Cinderella receives help from her fairy godmother in order to attend the ball. In the film, her stepsisters never treat her with respect and never want much to do with herm, unless it involves bossing her around. In Perrault’s tale, they beg her for forgiveness once she marries the prince, therefore show a little soft side towards Cinderella.

Cinderella is a fairy tale that has many different interpretations. This tale has also been made into many films, advertisements, amongst other mediums. Although films and advertisements are very different certain aspects can be brought together through the Brothers Grimm version as well as from a gender and sociological standpoint.

To begin with, the two Cinderella stories have the same evil stepmother and stepsisters. In the German version there is a quote that shows Cinderella had a very bad stepmom, “They were beautiful, with fair faces, but evil and dark hearts.” “Time grew very bad for the stepchild.” These quotes show that the two Cinderella’s had terrible stepmothers and treated her with no respect no matter how nice she was to them. To begin with, her family made her do all the chores while they tortured Cinderella.

Most fairy tales are meant to teach children and they are changed slightly to show similarities and differences while giving a moral. In both the literature work and Disney’s “Cinderella” Animated Movie of 2015, they both contain a plentiful amount of similarities and differences. The Brother’s Grimm, writers of Cinderella, portray a picture of little girl living with her stepmother and her stepsisters, while her parents are dead. The 2015 Cinderella Movie shows a young girl grow up and live with her stepmother and stepsisters; however, the father waits many years until remarrying after her mother’s death. Even though the outcast, Cinderella, and the star-crossed lover, the prince, occur in both the story and movie, they show many differences and similarities in plot and character development.

It intrigues me that little details change throughout all the different version of Cinderella. While they all follow the same main story line, Cinderella having two step-sister and going to the ball and marrying the prince, little aspects change throughout all of them. For example in “The Little Glass Slipper” by Charles Perrault, Cinderella looses her glass slipper by trying to get home before midnight. In “Cinderella” by the Grimm brothers, Cinderella looses her gold slipper because the prince but pitch on the stairs in attempt to catch her. While it might not sound like a drastic change, the glass slipper changing into a gold slipper can change a variety of meanings. Also in the Grimm’s brothers version, Cinderella gets her transformation through the magical effects of her late mothers tree planted on her grave. In Perrault’s version, Cinderella gains her transformation through the use of a Fairy-godmother. While both cases call for a higher being to intertwine and enhance Cinderella, they were vastly different and therefore offer a different outlook.

According to Per Ankh, Cinderella first came about in Egypt around the first century BC. Rhodopis a young maiden was born in Greece, but was kidnapped by pirates and carried to Egypt. Rhodopis became a servant to an old man, where all the other servant girls would taunt her for having golden curls instead of straight black hair. Because of the taunting,

Cinderella was created from an old folk tale by Charles Perrault in 1867 which was later modified by the Grimm Brothers. The elements of the story— like the fairy godmother, the pumpkin coach, and the glass slipper—made it famous. The story pointed out that Cinderella, a kindhearted and patient young girl, was abused by her stepfamily after the death of her parents. Up till the end of the story, she stayed humble and forgiving even though her life was turned upside down when she married the prince in her kingdom. Cinderella is considered the “most retold fairytale of all” as it has been adapted through the years (The Mischaracterization of Cinderella, 2015).

Throughout the story of Cinderella, the main problem that the story is based off of is how Cinderella was the under the control of her evil and jealous stepmother and sisters would suffer, while on the other hand, when she was with her father before the stepmother, and the prince later on in the story, Cinderella is happy. This interpretation can be examined as a way to poke fun on the idea of a matriarchal society, and how its better to move towards a patriarchal society. In the scene in the beginning part of movie where they start to introduce the characters as they currently are in the story, there is obvious signs of mistreatment of Cinderella. Unlike the other two girls, her step sisters, who were wearing fancy, expensive but guantly looking