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Atwood began the story as the female lead being beautiful, but changed her to being average looking, and changes the stereotypical evil stepmother to an evil stepfather. On the contrary, Perrault follows the basic generic conventions of fairy tales by having the prince marry the beautiful princess and writes the main antagonists as two older women. Perrault uses his story to frame the prince as the hero who saves the sleeping princess and her kingdom, and later saves his family from his evil cannibalistic mother. Perrault’s story has more of a magical aspect than Atwood’s since he includes fairies and curses in his story. Perrault’s story offers an escape from the trials and

Once the prince is finished with the two evil sisters, Cinderella comes out and while taking off her dirty shoe, her foot fits perfectly into the shoe. The prince and Cinderella are finally together, the prince knows Cinderella was the mystery women he had been searching for all along since her foot fit into the shoe. Cinderella and the prince return to his kingdom and live happily ever after. While the Disney story and the fairy tale version of the stories both end with happy endings the fairy tale is written with much more graphic images than the Disney

This is why Walt Disney made so much money from parents because they know behind their back that their children. In Cinderella, Disney took out two stepsisters cutting their heel and toe off and the pigeons pecking their eyes. Also, Cinderella has a magical bird that gives her what she needs, bit a fairy god mother. It's crazy to see how much a story can change so much and every parent will show their

Snow white says to her mirror “mirror mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” When the mirror replies and says nothing less than “of course, you Snow White”, she finds instant pleasure and demands to hear it again. This right off the bat in teaching young people that in order to succeed you must be “the fairest” or the greatest of everyone. Dr. Hardstein theorizes that traditional stories like Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella to promote the idea that if a girl is pretty enough and has fancy clothes and shoes; she will find love and popularity (Wellman). Also every time you see a female character her features are enhanced and “improved” to make her prettier.

They both are similar in because they both have the same kind of situational archetype which is good vs evil. In Rumpelstiltskin, its Millers daughter (good) and Rumpelstiltskin (evil). The thing he does is that he only spins the gold if she gives him her possessions. After she gave up everything she got, he asked for her first unborn child. Knowing now that the only way to win over evil is Rumpelstiltskin’s name.

Once upon a time there were two brothers by the names of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. They lived in Germany in the 1780’s and grew up to become one of the most famous folk tale writers. We know their tales, but people only really know the Disney versions of these stories. The Grimm brother’s had more gruesome and gore-like tales of Cinderella, but why were these adventures so horrifying and how did Disney alter the fantasies to make them more appeal to a bigger audience? This is the story of how the Brother’s Grimm showed their culture though a fairy tale.

The Change of Sexism in Disney Movies Disney has created many incredibly beautiful films over the years from Snow White in 1937 to The Little Mermaid in 1989 to Mulan 1998 all the way to Frozen in 2013. All these wonderfully made movies that have given many girls of all age’s dreams, aspirations and determination. But there was always something twisted in the Disney movies made back then compared to now. The main character women were portrayed as a weak, damsels in distress, always needed saving and were never were heroes.

The Grimm Brothers stories have influenced our culture’s movies, books, and TV shows into making young girls believe they are helpless and need a hero to save them. All good movies have been influenced one way or another from fairy tales. Though there are many things that could be studied this paper will only be looking at how movies portray the infamous Grimm Brother’s idea that all women need a hero. In The Princess Bride, Buttercup is a typical beautiful blonde haired girl who is taken captive by the villain and forced to marry him. Instead of Buttercup trying to escape or argue she simply goes along with the wedding and plans to kill herself on her wedding night.

Any child who was fortunate enough to be raised anywhere except the underside of a rock has certainly been exposed to Walt Disney movies at some point in his or her life. One of the most famous of these childhood classics is “Disney’s The Little Mermaid”. Most children and parents alike probably assume that this colorful tale was woven straight from the brain of Walt Disney himself. However, to the shock of most viewers, this feature film draws its premise from Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fairytale, “The Little Mermaid”.

Macbeth play the Evil Queen and Lady Macbeth both execute a very ambitious character. Lady Macbeth and the Evil Queen both have a royal positions that they would fight for. Lady Macbeth very easily persuaded Macbeth to kill Duncan not because she cared about what Macbeth “deserved” but because if he became king she would automatically be queen without putting herself at any risk

1. At the young age of seven, Snow White, upon the request of her step-mother, is taken to a forest. Unable to fulfill his duty, the huntsman releases the child assuming that she will not make it far. Snow White is left to wander the unnerving forest as the huntsman leaves to report to the queen.

Would the stepmother also be the mother figure archetype along with being the villain? Would Cinderella be the innocent youth and the protagonist? I think Cinderella's fairy god mother could be the magician and the caregiver. The prince could be the lover archetype of the story of Cinderella. The way you described the film of Cinderella I the archetype situation of the story is the journey or possible the star crossed lovers archetype.

In the early years of Disney films there have been a lot of controversial problems about the company’s output in relations to ethnic and cultural diversity. Johnson Cheu states, that “Every author has his or own approach to the filmic history of Disney as it relates to the films they are examining. A board overview of who Disney is or a chorological overview of the nearly hundred years of Disney’s filmic output is unnecessary (Cheu, 4)”. With Walt Disney’s films being a controversial output this allowed Gregory Allen Howard to use the film Remember the Titans as way to portray the message of racial understanding and human compassion. Disney films has been “racialization of humanity that served as the foundation of many theories related

Disney vs. Grimm Throughout time there has been an alteration of fairy tales. Grimm brothers original stories are much more graphic and violent than the fairy tales we think of today. Disney dispalies stories that are less graphic and fit for children, while still using the main idea and concept of the original Grimm brothers’ stories. The alteration of fairy tales is displayed throughout the stories from the Grimm brothers and the newer stories brought by Disney.

This power that Agnes has gained with the recognition and identification with what is wild inside her is what has enabled her to face what is to come after killing the bear, for the incident has not ended yet. The Frenchman knew that it was Agnes who killed the bear and took its fur, which was a rare color of a bear. He, along with his gun-armed men, went to Agnes house, where she lived alone with her mother. (They lived alone because men abandoned their houses to places that have not yet been destroyed, leaving their women and children behind, as a consequence of the European destruction, a situation that will be further studied in ch. 2). Dora-Rouge narrates: "We were just women there.