Disney And Cinderella Similarities

This is quite similar to the tale of Cinderella. Cinderella is set in a similar time. Although the original tale of Cinderella dates back to a 9th Century Chinese tale, Cinderella is most commonly known a European tale based in medieval times. Cinderella shares the Once Future King’s themes of family name and family power. After marrying Cinderella’s father the step-mother and step-sisters had power over Cinderella. During this time if someone had power over you they owned you, having the power to be as brutal mentally, physically, emotionally or sexually as they wanted. In contrast the Disney version of the tale portrays a PG version of this. This is known as ‘Disneyfying’ or ‘Disneyfication’. This is idea of changing something to make it
more innocent and enhancing for a younger audience (Giroux, 1994, p.66). In this process the true brutality and subjugation is lost from Disney’s version.