Cinderella

For my paper that is due Monday, I am discussing the differences in Walt Disney's Cinderella and The Grimm's Brothers version. I realized that although Disney based his version on the Grimm' tale, there are also many influences from the Perrault version of the story. The glass slippers, for instance, came from the Perrault story and the Grimm's brothers changed it because they felt that their princess should not wear such fragile shoes. The mice are originally from the Perrault story as well, which are then used in the Disney story to help Cinderella. The actual woman as a fairy god-mother is from the Perrault story as well, saying the Grimm's fairy god mother is a bird. Also, the pumpkin carriage. And finally, the midnight curfew. These many aspects originated in the Perrault text from 1697. Though many other characteristics of the story stray from the Disney movie version, the Perrault text is a major influence to Disney's story that many try to ignore. Not to say the Grimm's version is not an influence, because it was of more modern day so many of its aspects are strongly represented.