Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Grimm. (2012). "Cinderella." Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales. New York: Fall River Press.

This fairytale has a few things different from the Disney version of Cinderella. Everything remains the same as the Disney version except the following: The father goes to a fair, in which the stepsisters ask him to bring them back jewelry, but Cinderella asks him to bring back the first branch to hit his hat on his way home. She then uses this hazel branch to plant by her mother's grave. Every time she visits her mother's grave her tears water the branch until it turns into a tree. There, a white bird lives that grants every wish she makes while sitting by her mother's grave. In order to go to the festival, Cinderella must pick out every lentil that her stepmother dumped in the ashes within 2 hours. Even though the birds helped her do this, her stepmother says that if she can pick the lentils out of two dishes within 1 hour, then she can have a dress to wear to the festival. When the stepmother fails to carry out the deal, Cinderella goes to the bird by her mother's grave and wishes for a gold and silver dress and silk and silver slippers. The story is the same with her going to the festival except it lasts for three days. On the third night, the prince used "stratagen" to have Cinderella's slipper get stuck as she ran away so that he could use it to find her. In the end, the prince finds Cinderella, and the stepsister's eyes are pecked out by the bird.
I thought this fairytale would be good to use to compare and contrast the Disney version to this original version.

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