Comparing and Contrasting Disney with

The Brothers Grimm

By: Nicole Chan

The Brothers Grimm introduced…

Cinderella

Snow White

Sleeping Beauty

Rapunzel

The Frog Prince

The Little Mermaid

Disney Changed the Titles of….

Rapunzel to Tangled

The Frog Prince to The Princess and the Frog

Did Disney change the story to make it suitable for children? Adding and Deleting certain words and characters

Usage of Most Frequent Words (MFW)

Sarah Allison’s research states that MFW was a small set of high frequency features.

Jockers was able to cluster majority of most frequent words to depict different genres of plays and novels.

The frequency of articles and conjunctions allowed readers to identify what the most frequent words in the novels were

The ContrastThe Brothers Grimm

In Cinderella, the step-sisters try to cut out different parts of their feet to fit into the glass slipper.

The Little Mermaid: The sea-witch cuts off Ariel’s tongue. There is pain every time Ariel walks when she is given legs. The prince is in love with someone else. Ariel dies in the end (turns into sea foam).

Snow White: The Queens is her actual mother, not step mother. She wants Snow White’s lungs and liver, not just the heart. Snow White is awakened when she is jostled by a horse in her coffin, which is being carried by the prince.

The ContrastDisney

Cinderella: The step-sister simply had big feet, and could not fit into the slippers.

The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s mother is still alive. She gives the sea-witch her voice. Her and the Prince live happily ever after in the end being human together.

Snow White: The Queen is her step mother, and wants the huntsman to bring her Snow White’s heart when he kills her. Snow White is awakened with a kiss from the Prince.

ComparisonsCinderella: The characters stayed the same with

the plot of trying to fit into the glass slipper. Cinderella and the Prince live happily ever after.

The Little Mermaid: Ariel falls in love with the prince and wants to become human to be with him.

Snow White: Her mother hired a huntsman to kill her daughter. She is still awakened at the end.

To the Television ScreenThe television series

Grimm is based on the Brothers Grimm story books

The television series Once Upon a Time is based on ALL the Disney stories.

Both adding characters not relating to the stories to create a mystery plot.

To the Big Screen! Maleficent was based on Sleeping Beauty.

Except, Maleficent was actually good while the King was evil.

To the Big ScreenEnchanted was based on all the Disney movies

combined into one large movie. (Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty all took part)

To the Big ScreenIn 2015, Cinderella is being remade with the title

of “Cinderella.”

Ever After starring Drew Barrymore was based on the story of Cinderella as well.

Works Cited Allison, Sarah. “Quantitative Formalism: An

Experiment” Literary Lab. (2011). Web. 24 Nov. 2014

Lindsay. “Differences Between Grimms and Disney (A Few Examples)” Disney VS. The Grimm Brothers. Blogspot. 18 Dec. 2009. 23 Nov. 2014 http://disneyvsgrimms.blogspot.com