Blog Entry 1: My first blog ever

Going into this class, I expected to learn a lot about how Disney fairytales came to be. I was also very interested in learning their origins and what the Grimm brothers' original viewpoint of them were. But I learned so much more. I learned who the Grimm Brothers are. I learned more about Walt Disney. I learned that the Grimm brothers weren't the only ones who wrote fairytales. Plus I learned about symbols and meanings within fairytales. The Grimm brothers were two authors from Germany who wrote fairytales that became very popular. I didn't expect to learn so much about their lives while taking this class. I learned about their family, their struggles, and even their school life. I was introduced to who these people were and why they wrote tales, rather than just learning about their tales. Walt Disney was a filmmaker who pivoted off of previously written fairytales to launch his career. He went through a lot to build his own brand and is now has the most successful c

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