Blog Entry 1: My first blog ever

Have you ever seen the Rapunzel cartoon by HBO's "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child" series? Maybe, maybe not. Most people are familiar with Walt Disney's Verison of the Rapunzel tale called "Tangled". But what are the similarities between these two tales, and what makes them so different? Starting off with their differences, a big one is that in HBO's Rapunzel the entire cast was black. And in the Disney version, all the characters were white. Another difference is that the villain in this story was a "hoodoo witch" who stole Rapunzel and wanted her to also be a witch. But in the Disney version, the villain stole Rapunzel because her magical hair kept her young. The last big difference is that in the HBO Rapunzel, she met her lover in her garden before she got locked in her tower. In the Walt Disney version, her lover climbed in her tower and met her, but it was a very alarming interaction. Some similarities are that in b

The three tales surrounding the same storyline as Bluebeard are very similar, yet different in their own way. Some differences include the number of protagonists and antagonists in each story. In "The Fitcher's Bird," there are three woman protagonists who are captured by one male antagonist. In "The Robber Bridegroom" there's one main protagonist, one semi protagonist if you count the old woman, plus multiple cannibals as the antagonists. Finally, in "Bluebeard" there's simply one protagonist and one antagonist. Another difference that makes each story unique is the objects. In the tale of "Bluebeard," the distinctive object is obviously the antagonist's blue beard. But another one that it has is the key, which this and "The Fitcher's Bird" story share. Two more unique objects that "The Fitcher's Bird" has are its magical egg & basket. Lastly, the story of "The Robber Bridegroom" has t

The Bluebeard original tale and the movie are very different from each other. At first, it was a bit hard to follow how the movie related to the tale because the movie goes into a lot of depth into the life of the young girl and her family before she meets Bluebeard. Besides this, there are many other differences, though. In the Grimm's story, the young girl has three brothers who will do anything for her. In the movie, the young girl has one sister who she fights with a lot. In the Grimm version, the young girl hardly wants anything to do with Bluebeard and is frightened by him the minute she sees him. In the movie, the young girl is intrigued by him, builds a relationship with him, and isn't scared. In the Grimm's tale when the princess is about to die, she calls for her brothers help out the window 3 times. In the movie, she calls for her sister but also stalls by requesting different ways to die. In the end, when Bluebeard dies, she seems to mourn his death while stil

The Tale Of Little Red Riding Hood I did some digging on Youtube and found a Little Red Riding Hood cartoon. Now, we all know that this is one of the most popular fairytales ever. So naturally, there are tons of films and shorts based on the story. The one I watched on Youtube was very interesting. It was from an animal collection of fairytales created by Robert Barron titled “My Favorite Fairy Tales”, published in 1986 by Saban entertainment. But continuing on the cartoon itself, it was extremely funny, charming, ridiculous, and I could definitely see how this could have an appeal to really any audience but mostly kids. I loved it & couldn’t take my eyes off of it.  Hidden under all this entertainment though lies a social message. Maybe even a couple. In one of the scenes, the wolf notices Little Red and makes his plan to eat her. But the animals and hunters in the forest knew he was up to no good and attacked him. This could be a message to try to bring down predators in

    Frogs: The opposite of Cupids The two stories “Cupid and Psyche” and “The Frog Prince or Iron Heinrich” could not be more different from each other. One’s about a princess who loses her ball down a well, a frog gets it, and they wind up being lovers in the end. The other story is about a princess who falls in love with an immortal who was sent to kill her. But if you look close enough, the themes are in a way similar, just flipped around. In “The Frog King or Iron Heinrich” by the Grimm Brothers, the young princess loses her ball near a well then starts crying. A frog hears her and offers to help if she promises to love him, be her companion, eat with him, play with him, and sleep with him. The princess says yes and the frog gets the ball. Not too long after, she forgets the promise she made and the frog is waiting for her at her door, the father tells her she needs to keep her word and makes her do all the things she promised. Fed up with all this, the princess throws the

Have you ever watched Walt Disney’s: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Most likely you have, or at least know the general plot. But have you read the Grimm Brothers version? If you have, then you know they are extremely different from each other. Walt Disney alternated the story and added his own style to it. Let’s go further into how and why he changed the classic tale. In the 1944 release of Disney’s Snow White, Disney portrayed the Dwarfs as hard-working miners, with names and characteristics. The evil queen only comes once with a poison apple. The prince appears in the beginning and sings a love ballad to Snow White on a white horse & is honestly a lot more relevant compared to the Grimm’s tale. He also kisses Snow White awake. In the Disney version, Snow White is also an orphan because both of her parents are dead. When she finds the Dwarf’s house she cleans it for them, hoping they’d let her stay. And lastly, the queen dies from trying to kill the Dwarfs with a giant bould