“Cinderella” is dark, gruesome tale of violence, abuse, and neglect mixed with a twist of happily ever after. The Disney version of “Cinderella” tries to hide or diminish the dark parts of the trials before the happily ever after, twisting the moral of the story into something entirely different. The original “Cinderella” (1857), was recorded by the Grimm brothers, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (McGlathery). Most of the tales that the Grimm Brothers collected were gathered from oral tales they had heard from friends and family (McGlathery). It was later remade and retold several times, the most well known being the classic Disney animation (“A Cinderella Story”). It has also been made into more recent spin offs such as movies like “A Cinderella…show more content… Many think that the Cinderella tale is a shot at what the “ideal” bride was supposed to be and act like during the era that the story was first spread (“A Cinderella Story”). There is a very large and seen differences between that of the “Cinderella” story told by the Grimm Brothers and that told through the Disney animation. The remakes and spin offs such as Another Cinderella Story take bits and pieces from the Grimm version and the Disney version to bring an even more clear moral of the Cinderella tale. Although Grimm’s version of “Cinderella” is more gruesome and violent, the moral of the story is more true-to-life than that of the Disney counterpart. Cinderella was produced and first released in 1950 and directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske (Disney).
Grimm’s dark and grotesque tellings of the story of Cinderella represent a clear representation of the hardships and struggles that we have to face along the way to reach happiness. This is clear through many points of evidence within the reading of the short story. Cinderella’s mother dies when she is a little girl, her father remarries Grimm 1). The moment that her father brings his new wife home and her children, Cinderella is traded in and…show more content… In Disney’s version of Cinderella they portray the scene where the Prince comes to the house to fit the slipper to his bride as a very simple solution. The first sister tries on the glass slipper and her foot does not fit. No matter how hard that she tries to fit her foot into the slipper, it will not go (Disney). After the first sister tries slipping her foot into the shoe, the second sister is given a chance to try the shoe on as well (Disney). The second sister is much the same way as the first sister, her foot will not fit into the slipper and they are unable to do anything to make the slipper fit (Disney). In this version of Cinderella, the evil stepmother realizes that it was Cinderella at the ball before the Prince comes because of Cinderella’s dreamlike and happy demeanor and quietly follow Cinderella up to the top of the tower to her bedroom and locks her inside it so that she will not be present when the Prince comes (Disney). However, with the help of Cinderella’s mice friends she is able to get of the tower just in time to rush in and try the slipper on and present the fact that she holds the identical slipper with her (Disney). This shows that finding the girl of the Prince’s dream was rather easy, and that Cinderella was easily able to prove that she was
