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This 6 page paper compares the Charles Perrault version of the fairy tale “Cinderella” with that of the Brothers Grimm, and what the differences might tell us about the two cultures. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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This paper discusses two other versions of the story: the Charles Perrault 1697 French tale; and the 1812 "Aschenputtel" version by the German writers, the Brothers Grimm. Discussion The Cinderella
story is familiar to people throughout the globe. In China, the story is "Yeh-Shen" and is possibly the oldest version known; in Canada its a First Nations story called "The
Burnt Face Girl"; and in Vietnam, its "Tam and Cam" (Lin 30). The story as told by Disney is based on Perrault and makes Cinderella into a spineless wimp dominated
by everyone around her. Completely helpless and totally inert, she can only sigh, whimper, wish and dream for things to happen. Instead of rebelling against the abuse she suffers she
meekly accepts it and goes to sit among the ashes. It might be instructive to consider what America was like in the late 1940s that the Disney Studios felt it
necessary to produce such a drip; and whats more troubling, to have her so well-liked and completely accepted by most viewers. After all, says one critic of the film, "the
girl hardly exhibits signs of a brain capacity larger than that of a rutabaga" (Robbins 101). At any rate, in the Perrault story, she isnt such a ninny; not only
that, but there is an explanation for some of her behavior. In the French tale, her father is alive and remarries after the death of Cinderellas mother. His new wife
has the two cold and haughty daughters familiar in most versions of the tale; she dotes on them but rules her new husband with "a rod of iron," so that
Cinderella dares not complain to him about her ill-treatment, because "he would have lost his temper with her" (Perrault). This makes Cinderellas meek acceptance of her mistreatment at least understandable.
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