Grimm Fairy Tales vs Disney Stories

Grimm vs. Disney The Making of a Fairy Tale Amber Brandenburg English 121 Pr glumessor Kari Lomanno 8/13/2012 The fairy humbugs that we grew up with ar not the originals. Disney and the brothers Grimm had two very different versions. While many of us grew up watching cute birds and mice hobby the woe begotten princess, the original stories were forgotten by most. These stories were far darker, ending in cruel justness for a stepsister or worse. The inequality betwixt aspects of the two tales discussed, in some instances, is the difference between night and day. Grimm fairy tales contain more violence, harsher villains, and swifter justice.The first example of this can be seen in the difference between Disneys and Grimms versions of Cinderella. In the Disney version of the fib, Cinderella is a poor girl who lives with her stepmother and sisters. She wishes to go to the freak and she f anys in love with him before running off to make her curfew. Then of course, he comes to her render and everything ends happily ever after. The good characters are good and the bad characters are bad. There is a skilful ending and no one really gets hurt in the end. Grimms Cinderella is a similar tale with some fiercer consequences to the villains.The Grimm version has many of the same plot elements and devices as the story we all know and love. In this version her father is still alive and still lets the rest of the family treat her like a slave. quite of a fairy godmother granting her wish it is a tree she planted on her mothers cogent and some birds. When the sisters try on the golden shoe one cuts off her toes, while the other cuts off her heels and the birds chant that neither could be the princes proper bride. Finally, the sisters are punished at Cinderellas spousals by birds who peck their eyes out, leaving them forever blind.Snow white, another acclaimed Disney tale, also contains plot devices and ending punishments that are very different from the cookie cutt er nice endings of Disney. Everyone knows that Snow white is the daughter of a big businessman who remarries an evil stepmother. Everyone knows that when the queen discovers that Snow etiolateds beauty is greater than hers, she asks the huntsman to kill her. Finally, we all know that the dwarves take care of her until her death, at which point the prince comes to the rescue and awakens her with a kiss. These are all elements of the story that we come to expect when we hear the name Snow White.In the brothers Grimm version, the queen still demands the death of Snow White and the Huntsman still lets her go. Only this time he kills a boar and brings the queen back its lungs and liver-colored and she eats them, thinking that they are from Snow Whites body. Snow White still meets the dwarves in the woods, but their introduction to her was more akin to that of goldilocks and the three bears. Then, when she is poisoned by the apple, the kiss of the prince is not what awakens her. instea d the prince begs the dwarves to have her dead body and the trip to the castle dislodges the apple bite caught in her throat.Finally, at the pairing of the happy couple, the queen arrives and is forced to dance in red hot iron shoes until she dies. by all odds not what one would remember from the Disney adaptation. These are just two examples out of many. The versions of fairy tales by Grimm and Disney are always similar in nature and moral. The differences in the details of the story range from minute to highly significant. The punishments placed upon the villains are always more severe than those placed upon the villains in the tales spun by Disney.The older Grimm stories definitely place a higher importance on the eye for an eye methodology of punishment than its newer Disney counterpart. The ethics are the same, just the details and severities of the punishments differ. References Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,Sneewittchen, Kinder- und Hausmarchen, (Childrens and sept Tales Grim ms Fairy Tales), final edition (Berlin, 1857), no. 53 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Cinderella (Childrens and Household Tales Grimms Fairy Tales), final edition (Berlin, 1857), no. 21