How does the traditional fairy tale of cinderella differ from the modern one?
The traditional fairy tale of cinderella was the first one ever made which is considered too intense for children so they watered it down and made it happier with the modern version which is the one we all know and love. Can someone please tell me how the traditional version goes. Thankkk youuuuu!!
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The first cinderella is hard to find. All I know is that the new one adopted by Disney is a completely different story.
The Original tale had more ghost and goblins in it………..
In the traditional version, there are three balls and not one, and there is no fairy godmother. Instead, when Cinderella wants to go to the ball, she visits the willow tree that sits atop her mother’s grave. She asks the spirit of her mother for help and for each ball, a beautiful gown falls from it. The first is golden as the sun, the second silver as the moon, the third is glittery like the stars (these are symbols of Cinderella’s inner goddess which is what the prince falls in love with).
When the prince goes around with the shoe for measure, the first stepsister cuts off her toe to fit it in (mutilates herself angling for the high position). On the way to the palace, the prince hears birds (messengers from the other world) singing:
Too-wit, too-wit, too-woo,
there’s blood upon the shoe.
The shoe’s too small, and she behind
is not the bride for you.
Then he notices the stepsister’s foot and turns around.
The second stepsister cuts off her heel to fit her foot in the shoe. On the ride to the palace the same thing happens, the birds singing the message.
Too-wit, too-wit, too-woo,
there’s blood upon the shoe.
The shoe’s too small, and she behind
is not the bride for you.
Finally he tries the shoe on Cinderella and of course it fits perfectly. On the way to the palace the birds sing,
Too-wit, too-wit, too-woo,
there’s no blood upon the shoe.
It fits just right, and she behind
is the true bride for you.
Then the prince knows she is his true love and they live happily ever after.
This original story has a lot more depth and is much more a learning story about love and finding your way in life, which is the purpose of fairy tales. A lot of people don’t have respect for them, but truly they are teaching stories and the symbolism is very profound.
You can read the Grimm version online. It’s pretty short.
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html
The traditional Cinderella story was Chinese.
‘Cinderella’ looses her parents and is then in the care of her stepfather wife who treat her horribly. Cinderella becomes friends with a magical fish that appears in the pond at the house. The stepmom gets pissed because Cinderella found some companionship and comfort that the stepmom kills the fish. Cinderella takes the bones of the fish and hids them in her room, even dead the fish still helps her when she is forced to stay home when there is a festival going on. The magic bones hook her up with an outfit and tiny golden slippers (gold for Chinese symbolizes wealth and luck as well as having small feet were highly sought out in China as a sign of nobility). This type of beauty suggests working class women were not beautiful and not much social worth. Leaving the festival, Cinderella loses a slipper, which is picked up by the Prince. A huge search is set to find Cinderella and she lets him know the shoe is her, marries the prince and the step-mom and sisters get stoned to death.
I’m sure you can figure out why they changed it a bit!
the original cinderella story was written by the grimm brothers) i have the full compilation) and its much bloodier and adult….
starts off with cinderella’s mother dying and her mother saying she’d eher gaurdian angel and her father married a widow with 2 daughters… on one trip he asked the 3 whats they would like one a beautiful dress the other a pearl neckalce and the third cinderella the first twig that stirkes his hat on way home, on his way home a hazel twig struck his hat and he gave it to her and she buried it in her mother’s grave, the twig grew into a tree on which a white bird woudl sit and when cinderella went to weep there 3 times a day the bird woudl throw down whatever she wished for.
later on the king of the country threw a rand ball for his son to choose a bride, and cinderella begged to g upon which her stepmother said if u can get all the linseed out of the ashes in 2 hours ill let u go. a bunch of birds took out all the linseeds for her but her stepmother only laughed at her and said u have no dress u cannot go….
and cinderella wnt to the hazel tree in her mothers grave to cry where the bird gave her a dress.. and this reapted for 3 nights… and on third night she left behind her shoe. the prince sent out a messenger to find the owner of the shoe and the sisters one cut off her toe to fit inside and the bird who cat on top the tree said” that is not the right bride, the slipper is too small blood is flowing inside the shoe does nto fit her at all,
he went on the sedong sister who cut off her heel
and the bird said” go go back there is blood in the shoe the shoe is too small , that bride will not do
upon which cinderella tried on the shoe and it fit where the bird said” fair miad and true,no blood in her shoe, she is the bride,with the prince at her side”
at the wedding birds picked out the sisters eyes ….
VERY DIFFERENT VERSION!
and this is from the complete brothers grimm fairy tales
by portland house… its pretty old book and extremely hard to find and i only added soem of the original story… this is from a book i have had since i was alittle girl. my grandfather gave it to me… the isbn is 0-517-18933-x if u want to look for full version…
Traditional story has ugly step sister’s eyes getting put out for being evil. Have you read Princess Bubble? That is a cool Modern Day fairy tale.