Rain's "From Grimm to Disney" Blog

The idea of “rags to riches” has been a central idea in America since the early beginning. People from all over the world would travel here to get a chance at the “American Dream”. The thought of working from the bottom to the top. In Cinderella she goes from rags to riches by magic and marriage. On the realistic side of things, I’m not sure quite how realistic reaching riches by magic in the real world is because it’s simply impossible. However, reaching riches by marriage is much more common  in today’s society . We call them ‘gold  diggers’ . You see it quite a lot in celebrities with young wives especially when the age gap is quite significant. Some rare cases can be done out of love but mostly it's for the money. The rich person usually goes along with it as well because they get something out of it such as some nice arm candy. I think people can most certainly reach success and riches by marriage but not by magic. In Cinderella’s case of course, she reached the success with t

The  definition  of a fairy tale according to Stith Thompson is a “tale of some length involving a succession of motifs or episodes. It moves an unreal world wi thout definite creatures and is filled with the marvelous. In this never-never ending land, humble heroes kill adversaries, succeed to kingdom and marry princesses.” (The  Folktale, 8)    My  definition  of a fairytale must include a hero,  villain , conflict and magic. It must  include  a hero of some sort , because that is the point of a fairytale ,  to inspire hope.  Fairytales  are  an abstraction from reality. A cheerful and hopeful tale that lets you escape into a  fantasy  w orld.  A long with that, you must include a  villain   in order for  a hero to exist. The  villain's  job is to  cause  mayhem or a problem for the hero to solve.  In the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, we see  Maleficent   as the  villain  who didn’t get invited to the  ceremony  celebrating the birth of Aurora. Which caused her to b

When I saw this course as an FYS option, I immediately was shocked. Was McDaniel looking at my search history…? Because not only weeks before, I had been obsessed with searching up the true versions of fairytales on YouTube. Seeing the grim (pun intended) and morbid truths behind the now glorified Disney tales. How something so twisted could turn into something so pure? So, to literally be able to delve deeper into the true fairytales was immensely intriguing to me. One fairytale that really hooked me into the Grimm versions was Cinderella. The fact that the stepsisters cut off their toes and heel. They feet were bleeding as they rode away on the horse and it wasn’t until the crow told the prince to check that he realized. And on top of that, to punish them, the crows pecked their eyes out until they were blind. To me that version is much more interesting than them simply trying on the slipper and accepting it didn’t fit.   In this course, I hope to accomplish a deeper understa