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Dark Origins of Disney Fairy Tales

This document compares the original versions of several classic fairy tales like The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, and Peter Pan to the Disney adaptations. The original versions often had darker and more tragic endings compared to the Disney versions which had happier endings.

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Dark Origins of Disney Fairy Tales

This document compares the original versions of several classic fairy tales like The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, and Peter Pan to the Disney adaptations. The original versions often had darker and more tragic endings compared to the Disney versions which had happier endings.

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Dark Origins of Disney Fairy

Tales
ruining your childhood
The Little Mermaid
Disney version: Ariel can keep her legs, has her voice
back and marries Prince Eric.
The Little Mermaid
Original version by Hans Christian Andersen
The prince falls in love with another woman
The mermaid has to kill him
She can’t do it so she turns into sea foam
Tangled
Disney version: Rapunzel runs away with Flynn Rider,
finds out she is a long lost princess and defeats her evil
stepmother.
Rapunzel
Original version by Grimm Brothers
Rapunzel’s farmer parents exchange her as a baby for
some food with a witch
Rapunzel and a prince becomes a couple before they run
away and wants to get married
The witch throws the prince out the window and is
blinded by thorns
The prince spends months in the woods when he hears
Rapunzel’s voice and she heals him with her magic tears
He finds out Rapunzel has two children from him
Cinderella
Disney version: Cinderella marries the prince and they
live happily ever after.
Cinderella
Original version by
Charles Perrault (most
famous)
The stepsisters cut theirs
toes off when their feet
don’t fit in the glass shoe
At the wedding they are
blinded by pigeons
The Sleeping Beauty
Disney version: Aurora pricks her finger and falls
asleep. A prince wakes her up with a kiss.
Aurora
 Original version by Giambattista Basile
 The prince gets Aurora pregnant and leaves because he’s
married
 Aurora is waken up with the birth of her twins
 The prince’s wife tries to kill her bit she marries the prince
Beauty and the Beast
Disney version: Belle saves the beast with a romantic
kiss and the beast turns back into a prince
Beauty and the Beast
Original version by
Gabrielle-Suzanne
Barbot de Villeneuve
Belle wants to visit her
stepsisters
They get envious and
convince Belle to stay
longer than she’s allowed
to
The beast devours Belle
Peter Pan
Disney version: Peter escapes with Wendy and they go
to Neverlands and defeat Capitain Hook with the Lost
Boys.
Peter Pan
Several original versions
Wendy falls in love with Peter but he doesn’t feel the
exact same thing towards her
Peter Pan is dead
Tinker Bell convinces one of the Lost Boys that Wendy
is a bird and makes him shoot her with an arrow.
Wendy doesn’t die but the boy wants Peter to kill him
because he feels guilty
Peter Pan kills the Lost Boys when they grow up
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLGoqGKeVxM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWMqNhVTD8

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