Hello everybody!
Today I want to talk in my blog about the different versions that exist about an story. For example, in class, we were talking about "Cinderella", which story changes if you read Grimm's version or if you read Perrault's versions.
Perhaps, if I ask you to close your eyes and to think about "Cinderella" story you will have another version in your mind, you will see Disney movie version.
In this version you can see first of all the two mice (Gus and Jaq) that are always helping Cinderella...
Then you will think about Cinderella, who is showed like a housemaid that only work to her stepsisters and to her stepmother...
And obviously, automatically you will think about the stepsisters (Drizella and Anastasia) and the stepmother (Lady Tramaine)...
Later on, you will think about the moment in which the royal messenger goes to Cinderella's house and give them an invitation to the royal ball. In this moment, the stepsisters, the stepmother and Cinderella start to create their dresses...
As all of us know, Drizella and Anastasia hated Cinderella because of her beauty, so they decided to break Cinderella's dress...
Once they broke the dress, Drizella and Anastasia went to the royal ball with their mother, but...they don't know that while they are going to the royal ball Cinderella is with her fairy Godmother, who was helping her to be really pretty to attend to the royal ball...
Thanks of the help of the fairy Godmother, Cinderella went to the royal ball, she met the prince, they danced together and they felt in love. However...not all was as beautiful as it seems. Cinderella had to go at home at 12 pm, so she had to run. While she was running she lost one of her glass shoes...
As the prince felt in love with her, he ordered to the royal buttler going house by house to find the misterious girl that was dancing with him. All the girls wanted to be the chosen.
The shoe was broken but as Cinderella had the other one there was no problem...
Finally, she was the chosen one, and Cinderella got married with the prince and they lived happily ever after.
I hope more or less this is the story that you have in your minds. But, as I told you at the beginning of this post, there are many versions of Cinderella's story. All of these versions have more or less the same strucutre but they have some differencies. Two of these versions are Grimm and Perrault's version:
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Grimm
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Perrault
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-The ball lasts 3 days.
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-The ball lasts 2 days.
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-Cinderella has a bad relationship with her stepsisters.
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-Cinderella has a better relationship with her stepsisters.
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-This version is really hard, it is not focused for children.
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-It is focused for children.
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If you want to know more about these two versions you can find them easily on the Internet :)
I hope you have enjoyed reading my post,
Ester ^_^
Hello Ester!
ReplyDeleteIt is true that the stories change depending on the cultural context of the author, for example the Grimms’ version is focused in religion and Perrault’s version is more focused in aesthetic. The fairy tales were and are telling in an oral way, so they are changing continuously. On this way, nowadays there are different versions of the fairy tales.
In one of my post, I analyse the story of Little Red Riding Hood where Perrault and Grimms’ version are very different at the end.
We have to be very careful choosing the stories for our futures students, for example Grimm's version of Cinderella is not adequate to children, it is better to choose Perrault's version.