The Brothers Grimm's 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

Read the Grimm Brother's Cinderella ( National Geographic web site.) and at least one other version of the story (see course materials for a list--remember, Disney versions are not a choice for this comparison.) How are the versions similar? Different? Appropriate response is one to two well developed paragraphs.

The inaugural book from the New York Times- Bestselling author Marissa Meyer. Cinder is an updated version of the classic fairytale of “Cinderella”. A futuristic dystopian society where humans and androids live in complete harmony. A prince falling in love with a princess is nothing new, but a prince falling in love with a cyborg princess is an anomaly. Meyer’s twist on “Cinderella” retains enough similarities to the original story readers will enjoy the subtle hints; however, this is not simply a re-telling of a classic. This book is innovative, extraordinary, and even a little extraterrestrial.

How does the tone or imagery in poetry make it better for the reader to understand? The emotional reactions or mental visualization of the tone or imagery can help create the overall meaning for a poem. Adding one of these or even both can help visualize the readers mind into better understanding how the writer wants to convey the meaning of a poem.

There is a huge difference between Grimm's version of Cinderella and that of Disney'. The two different versions, in fact, represent the idea of social construction of knowledge or that social reality varies according to the times one lives in, so that the two different versions reflect different perspectives of the different periods.

Feminism and gender roles play a huge role in our everyday lives, even if you do not quite notice right away. It can be anything from men having more power than women in, work areas, or political equality. It can be seen in stories, movies even newspaper articles to this day. One story in particular is Cinderella by the Grimm Brothers (1857). This essay will provide an in-depth look of feminism and how it is seen in the story such as; not being able to choose your own husband in certain situations, to women have to wear tight clothing, and the most obvious women not having the power men do.

However, this is not the case in Perrault’s version of Cinderella. In Perrault’s version there are no doves sent by Cinderella’s late mother, but rather Cinderella has a fairy godmother who uses her magic to help Cinderella attend the ball. The fairy godmother turns a pumpkin into a coach, mice into horses, a rat into a coachman, lizards into footmen, and her old rags into a dress of gold and silver and warns Cinderella that the spell will break at midnight and everything will turn back as it once was. Similarly, when Cinderella enters the ball she meets the prince and they dance while her stepmother and sister do not recognize her. However, in Perrault’s version

The two stories of “Cinderella” are “Tam and Cam”; and “The twelve Months: A Slav legend adapted by Alexander Chodzko. These stories have similar ways in portraying the hard working Cinderella including her suffering, but they are different in Cinderella’s motive of rescue one tale use violence if necessary; the other just more of a genuine resourceful approach. This means this character isn’t relying on a prince charming to be her rescue, so this makes the concept different from the other because “Tam and Cam” Cinderella lives forever happy with her lover, while “The twelve Months: A Slav legend adapted lives by herself and then a farmer she likes shows up. These tales went for a more sophisticated setting, each displaying the peasant overcoming the struggle; in which she is set free from all of her hurting. Throughout each story Cinderella is taking and caring she always seemed to get the short end of the stick. But, when the odds back fired on the step-sisters and step-mother the karma was naturally set upon to benefit Cinderella in her favor “Tam and Cam” or set in motion by her as payback to get even with her rival characters of a family in “The twelve Months: A Slav legend adapted lives.

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.

Moreover, Cinderella’s enchanted story is extraordinarily similar to how Johanna found love. In Cinderella, the poor mistreated protagonist was first given a beautiful dress and glass slippers by her fairy godmother to go see the prince at the ball. In Munro’s story, it is Mrs. Willet who acts as a fairy godmother to Johanna. She cared for her and gave her maternal affection until she sadly died and Johanna had to find another job. As a last act of kindness, she gave Johanna an inheritance. This donation was spent on the dress that she bought and wore to meet her own prince. The dresses of the two heroines provided by their respective supporters helped them get closer to their prince and symbolize an opportunity for a change and a new beginning.

Despite not having much in the beginning, by being given the golden slippers, it symbolizes the fact that she deserves more than what she is getting. Even though the animals did different things they all had the same effect in helping Cinderella find a better life.

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.

Cinderella Short story which is told by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the story tells us about Cinderella life and how is actually Cinderella character and personality. But in this story i will just focus on analyzing Irony idea of the story, which is the point of the Irony for me.

Perhaps one of the most unnatural and mad behaviors is devouring human flesh, being a cannibal. Besides the cannibalistic witches there are also other cannibals. An incomplete tale from the Brothers Grimm, “The Stepmother”, is also wildly horrific. The story is about an evil mother-in-law. After her son goes off to war she locks her daughter-in-law and grandchildren in a damp cellar. She eventually grows hungry for human flesh and requests her cook to slaughter and cook one of the children. The cook does not go through with this and instead cooks a pig. The mother-in-law craves flesh again and asks for the second child and then the queen herself. The cook tricks her each time and cooks a pig instead; the story ends with the queen trying to muffle her children’s screams so they are not discovered. When a maiden goes to meet her “Robber Bridegroom” at his home she comes to realize the den belongs to a group of murderers, her bridegroom being one of them. They bring home maidens and, “...chop them up to pieces without

Most of us grew up watching and reading the stories of Cinderella, Snow White and, Sleeping Beauty all of which were produced by Disney. But what if I told you that the versions you grew up watching and reading are far from the original versions depicted by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, better known as the Brothers Grimm. In their tale of “Cinderella” there was no fairy godmother, the step sisters cut off portions of their feet to fit into the slipper and none of the animals talked or sang, but rather plucked out the step sister’s eyes as punishment for the mistreatment of Cinderella. Which begs the question, what inspired the brother’s to write these types short stories, which are so not what is recognized today as a “fairy tale”?