Good And Evil In The Film Versions Of Cinderella

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

Cinderella has changed so little over time that it seems we’re still in the 1700’s reading Charles Perrault’s first edition. And yet it remains one of the most popular fairy tales read to

Not only is Cinderella passive and obedient to her stepmothers and stepsister, but she also blindly follows the instructions of her fairy godmother. Regarding her fate, Cinderella has no voice to or agency. As the stepsisters leave for the ball, Cinderella can only “[follow] them with her eyes for as long as she could” before she starts to cry (Perrault). When her fairy godmother appears, Cinderella is only able to utter two sentences, as she “was not able to speak the rest, being interrupted by her tears and sobbing (Perrault). Not only is Cinderella incapable of action, she is also speechless, and she cannot even voice her desire to go to the ball. Even throughout the entire tale, for being the main character Cinderella only has five lines of dialogue, with most of these lines demonstrating Cinderella submitting to her servitude or expressing grief surrounding her situation. Even with the small voice she has, Cinderella neither expresses ambition nor desire to have an active role in her fate. After her godmother sees Cinderella sobbing, her godmother

Before she met the prince she had no individual power, as she was constantly being ordered around by her stepmother and stepsisters. Disney portrays the many stereotypical ideas of women being enslaved to a life of domestication in just this film Cinderella is commanded to do domestic work, and she is willingly accepted to do the work instead of complaining and even sings as smiles as she does the work. Even though this is also seen as a negative thing in the film, Cinderella is always obedient and never stands up for herself despite knowing the position she is in is unfair for her. At the end of the storyline Cinderella us released by the end of the storyline, but only because the prince saves her. Cinderella is portrayed as having no strength as a woman until a man comes along and helps her. Disney presents women as inferior, for they need a man to be successful in life.

Ever since childhood I have always loved the fairy tail of Cinderella. Ever since the original disney version of the cinderella movie created in the 1950s, many modern versions of the movie have been made. I have watched every remake ever made of this movie. One of my all time favorite modern remakes of this movie is called “Another Cinderella Story”. Although the story line of the movie remains the same many aspects of the movie change as well in order to make the movie unique.

Cinderella is a fairytale for children that displayed love, loss and miracles; however, when it is further analyzed, it has a deeper meaning. Cinderella is a story about a young girl who became a servant in her own home after her father remarried a malicious woman with two spoiled daughters. She was humiliated and abused yet she remained gentle and kind. She received help from her fairy godmother to go to the prince’s ball after her stepmother rejected her proposal. Cinderella and the Prince fell madly in love but she had to leave at twelve o’clock and forgot to tell him her name but she left her glass slipper behind. He sent his servants to find her and Cinderella was the only maiden in the kingdom to fit into the shoes. She

Cinderella was the second Disney princess ever released by Disney. The animated classic of the film was released in 1950, whereas the live action remake was released in 2015. Cinderella is about a girl whose father married an evil women (Mrs Tremaine) just before he died. So the house and money was left to Mrs Tremaine and to her disgust, also was Cinderella. Cinderella has many animal friends to comfort her throughout her chores such as Jaq and Gus the mice. One day a man from the palace comes to the town and announces that there is to be a ball held where the prince must find a bride. Cinderella runs into the house in a hurry to tell her step mother and sisters the great news. Mrs Tremaine tells Cinderella that she may attend the ball with them if she finishes all her chores and has a suitable dress to wear. Cinderella goes up to the attic and begins to make her dress before she is rudely interrupted by the needy women of the house. Before Cinderella knows it, it is time to leave and go to the ball. By this time Cinderella had already given up on having a chance of going, but to her amazement there is a beautiful dress just like the one she wanted on a stand in the attic. While she completed her chores her mice friends had whipped up and extravagant pink dress. She quickly changes into the dress and descends down the stairs just in time to catch Mrs Tremaine, Drizella

The Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella is a written down oral story that people passed down from generation to generation, meant to teach a lesson about piety and good behavior. Before the Grimm Brothers ever wrote it down, the story had been told several times by memory. It is thus not surprising that the descriptions of certain events in the story, such as the way Cinderella went to the Ball, are lacking in details. It is obvious that these parts of the story are unimportant to the overall message of the story. Instead, it focuses on the piety of Cinderella and the wickedness of the step-sisters. Through the events of the story, it becomes obvious that the goodness of Cinderella is justly rewarded, and that

In "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault, the story depicts an imaginative fairytale through the hardships of a mistreated daughter and the magic of a fairy; in essence, Cinderella demonstrates that focusing on materialism is more important and more effective other than working up the path to majesty. Cinderella is a character who is often mistreated by her stepmother and god sisters. Bearing unsuitable personalities, they treat her harshly, leaving all of the chores to her. However, she admits that her tattered clothes are not worthy of a formal event, and continues to be belittled by her stepsisters. Portrayed with low self-esteem and insecurity, she does not respond harshly to their cruel insults. As a result, the main character relies on

Cinderella is innocent just as the child, and this allows the child to not feel guilt about his jealous judgements towards siblings. Cinderella’s story helps the child realize how terrible things could be for them and to appreciate how lucky they are instead of looking at the negative side of their life.

Each person in the world has heard of Cinderella, no matter what kind of version it may be. Cinderella is the one fairy tale story that has been popular and will always be the one tale that has to be told to children. Words and story lines might be twist and turn, but in the end the knowledge of the story will be learned in similar ways. As we all know when one story is told another is created, when one is at its best then another is at its worse. One version will always be better than another, but no matter what version it might be the story will be told.

The story that most of us know as “Cinderella” actually has a lot of different versions. These different versions contain several elements that are similar, but yet even more elements that differ from one another. The three main difference between all the different versions of this story are the characters, how others treat the main character, and the setting in which these stories take place.

In some instances, Cinderella’s behaviour in Perrault’s tale display characteristics that are alike to a modern western woman, today. On the first night of the Ball, the fairy godmother struggles to find something turn into a coachman. Then Cinderella suggests to transform the “...rate in the rat trap...into a coachman” (Perrault). This act reveals that Cinderella is capable of solving problems individually (Robbins, 107); a quality of a modern western woman. In addition, Cinderella demonstrates intelligence when the step sisters talk to Cinderella after returning from the first night of the Ball (Robbins, 107). Cinderella pretends to be sleepy by “...rubbing her eyes and stretching...” (Perrault) when the step sisters visit Cinderella’s room, after returning from the first night of the ball. By pretending to be sleepy, the step sisters assume that Cinderella did not attend the Ball. The step sisters tell Cinderella that a “finest princess” (Perrault) came to the Ball, however, when Cinderella inquires about the unknown princess name, the step sisters state that they did not know. Also, the step sisters tell Cinderella that the prince “would give all the world to know who...” (Perrault) is the unknown princess. This way Cinderella slyly and confidently interrogates the step

Have you ever had a dark and gloomy day? Imagine having that feeling every single day. The Grimm’s Cinderella was written in 1812. 1812 was one of the harshest years for America. An event that formed it was the war against Great Britain and the United States. Not only was there a war, but there was also a series of disastrous harvests. Taxes got higher, and more than twenty people who were involved with a Luddite Act were hung. In 1812, there was also the only assassination of a prime minister, who was shot dead in the House of Commons. The Grimm Brothers have put the dark times of 1812 into their stories. Some of their stories contain violence, child abuse, and wicked mothers. They came up with these types of stories after their father died, and when they struggled out of school. That gave them enough time to research and put together a collection of folk tales. Now you can see why the Grimm’s Cinderella was dark and gloomy. Although the plot stayed the same, over the years, the story did get lighter. Disney’s Cinderella came out in 1950. In 1950, learning information was not by fear, but by engaging happiness. Disney’s Cinderella transforms the Grimm’s Cinderella into a happier atmosphere. While some similarities between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are noticeable, the differences are pronounced, especially when referring to the slippers, her father, and the ball.

One hidden message employed throughout Cinderella is that people should be a light within the darkness. Although Cinderella was surrounded by people who constantly treated her with rudeness, she resorted to treating them with kindness. Towards the end of the movie, she even showed forgiveness towards her stepsisters and stepmom, and she told them that she forgave them. Cinderella showed that no matter how bad people treated her, or what rude things people told her, she could overcome the evilness by always showing kindness, gratitude, and love towards every person. She proved today that just one person showing these positive characteristics, could