Disney Influence On Grimm Brothers

For hundreds of years the Grimm brothers fairy tales have been captivating readers all over the world. Although the Grimm brothers would surely be pleased with how their work has become spread throughout the world since their deaths, there is one thing that they would likely hate, and that is Disney's rewriting and changing of their fairy tales original forms to children's movies with no regard for the original aspects. Disney has taken two mens life work and turned it into something those men would be ashamed to be associated with. In the late 1700s through the early 1800s there were two Brothers with the last name Grimm, who would become some of the world’s greatest folktale writers. The brothers, named Jacob and Wilhelm, grew up in Germany as the oldest of 5 siblings. While they were young they trained under their father to become lawyers; just as he was. However their goals in life began to change after they became “strongly influenced”(Denecke) by a philosopher named Johann Gottfried Herder. He shared with them his ideas on folk poetry which would change their lives entirely. After high school the brothers decided to give up on the legal careers that had had
In the original story of Cinderella “the sisters struggle to squeeze their feet into the golden (not glass) slipper.”(Berman) The sisters gruesomely cut parts off of their feet in an attempt to get their feet into the slipper, which is something you would never even imagine seeing in a Disney movie. Some might say that it was for the best that the tales were changed from their original forms into something more childish. However in reality they were sending a much better message.“In the Grimms’ world, evil may rule, but their is also the utopian promise that with a sense of right and wrong, plus some magic, one might be able to live happily ever after.”