One of the oldest forms of story telling was the oral story of the magical fairy tales. These tales were not just for children but also for the community to gather and take their imagination to different places. However, this magical land greatly expanded after the invention of the printing press, which led to massive amounts of fairy tale literature to be mass-produced, eliminating fairy tales the way Charles Parrault and the Grims brothers in tended their stories to be told. One story that has been reworked for the mass audiences is Snow White. The story of Snow White was about a girl who was abandoned by her stepmother however, was able to survive through the inner workings of nature and chance. This story becomes a romantic story once Disney
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For example look at the way Grimms chooses to end his version of Snow White. “She had to put on the red hot iron shoes and dance in them until she dropped to the ground dead” (Grimm 89). In this depiction of the closing of Snow White the evil stepmother is forced to dance to her death. The imagery used to describe the “red hot” shoes shows the extreme amount of violence in the very last sentence of Snow White. However, one may argue that in the Disney Film adaptation of Snow White the stepmother dies as well and therefore why is there a difference in the level of violence. This has to do with the sequence that this event occurs in comparison to the Grimms version of Snow White. In the Grimms version of Snow White it 's the last image the reader gets, while in contrast the last image in Disney’s adaptation is Snow Whites beautiful castle. This is because in the film Disney decides to suggest the stepmother’s death, but never implicitly shows her dead. This illustrates Zipes point that Disney and others tended to root for the happy ending opposed to the one described in many fairy …show more content…
Zipes disliked Disney because according to him it “robs the literary tale of its voice and changes its form and meaning” (344). If we look at the argument Zipes presented earlier where these new fairy tales needed to have a rise from rags to riches feel to them we can see why Disney made some of the changes they did to Snow White (336). In the Grimms version of the story of Snow White there is little left to the backstory of Snow White. All we are able to see from this version is that Snow White has lost her mother and her father is still alive. However Zipes points out the difference in the film version how Snow White is depicted as nothing more then a commoner as she cleans around the castle (347). It is this slight change of Snow White’s backstory that is important to note because it creates the illusion that Zipes was referring to earlier when the heroin comes from nothing and eventually achieves it all. Another major difference that Zipes argues is the fact Disney finds the need to throw their male lead into any part of the film they can (347). When watching Snow White the prince is seen within the first couple minutes of the film singing with Snow White, which is completely different, then the Grimms version. In the Grimms version the prince is not even mentioned until the last page of the tale illustrating his insignificance to the
For example look at the way Grimms chooses to end his version of Snow White. “She had to put on the red hot iron shoes and dance in them until she dropped to the ground dead” (Grimm 89). In this depiction of the closing of Snow White the evil stepmother is forced to dance to her death. The imagery used to describe the “red hot” shoes shows the extreme amount of violence in the very last sentence of Snow White. However, one may argue that in the Disney Film adaptation of Snow White the stepmother dies as well and therefore why is there a difference in the level of violence. This has to do with the sequence that this event occurs in comparison to the Grimms version of Snow White. In the Grimms version of Snow White it 's the last image the reader gets, while in contrast the last image in Disney’s adaptation is Snow Whites beautiful castle. This is because in the film Disney decides to suggest the stepmother’s death, but never implicitly shows her dead. This illustrates Zipes point that Disney and others tended to root for the happy ending opposed to the one described in many fairy …show more content…
Zipes disliked Disney because according to him it “robs the literary tale of its voice and changes its form and meaning” (344). If we look at the argument Zipes presented earlier where these new fairy tales needed to have a rise from rags to riches feel to them we can see why Disney made some of the changes they did to Snow White (336). In the Grimms version of the story of Snow White there is little left to the backstory of Snow White. All we are able to see from this version is that Snow White has lost her mother and her father is still alive. However Zipes points out the difference in the film version how Snow White is depicted as nothing more then a commoner as she cleans around the castle (347). It is this slight change of Snow White’s backstory that is important to note because it creates the illusion that Zipes was referring to earlier when the heroin comes from nothing and eventually achieves it all. Another major difference that Zipes argues is the fact Disney finds the need to throw their male lead into any part of the film they can (347). When watching Snow White the prince is seen within the first couple minutes of the film singing with Snow White, which is completely different, then the Grimms version. In the Grimms version the prince is not even mentioned until the last page of the tale illustrating his insignificance to the