Comparing Two Versions of Cinderella :: Compare Contrast Essays Fairytale

Over centuries of children have been enjoying the classic fairy levels of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. The fanciful plots and the splendid details allow children to be entranced by characters and adventures that can only be found in these stories. One of the most beloved fairy tales, which both(prenominal) the Perrault and the Grimms have their own separate versions of, is Cinderella. Cinderella is able to show how both versions are able to feed off the same plots while personifying the century and social frugal situation in which they have lived. Even though the time periods are very different (by 200 years) the formulas for their fairy tales seems to remain constant. Character development, which is very primal in fairy tales is both well done and accurately portrays the living situation for a character in the time period of when it was written. Perraults version seems to commit Cinderellas family in a higher(prenominal), well-off situation of the Grimms becau se she is still abided to obey the rules that her dying mother had set for her. Something that you would see a women do in the late 1600s. Her higher class and the rules of her generation has set her to not have retaliate on her step-sisters and helps them marry in the end, making a happy ending to the story for everyone. This also gives off the rules of the time to the young girls who would be listening or reading this story back then. They knew their place in society and tales like Perraults reinforced it. The Grimms version, coroneted Ashenputtle, has key elements in the story line that make it very different from Perraults Cinderella. The theme becomes very different as the end of the tale results in revenge on the step-sisters from Ashenputtle. This variation in the story line represents the setting in which the Grimms either lived in themselves, or the living situation of the people who related this tale to the Grimms.You can see from the tales themselves though, tha t the amount of similarities is what brings them together, and represents the way that the tale of Cinderella itself has traveled, and evolved, orally through generations, all over the world.