So I'm having a real difficult time finding a fairy tale that I want to focus on for my assignmet. I really want to do something dark so I started by looking for a story in which someone died or was really sick. I started focussing on some of the Classics like Snow White, Cinderella, and Little Red Riding Hood because the Grims fairy tales are much darker than the versions we are used to.
Right now I'm leaning toward Cinderalla. A lot of the Grims version is very similar to the one we all grew up with. Cinderella's mother dies when her daugther is still very young, and the father marries shortly after. The two stepsisters that Cinderella acquires are very cruel to her both verbally and physically, and along with their mothers help make her life a living hell. When the prince holds a festival to find a wife, Cinderella is told that she can not attend due to the fact that she has no proper clothes to wear. One element of this story that I am going to focus on is that Cinderella often visits her mothers grave to cry and pray and talk to the spirit of her mother. When asked by her father as to what gift she would like from a journey of his she says a branch so that she can plant it at her mothers grave. She does so and a beautiful hazelnut tree grows.
As I've mentioned I'm going to focus on the darker elements of this story that aren't really mentioned in the Disney classic. One of which being the sisters cutting off parts of their feet in order to fit into the shoes. I am also going to focus on the relationship between Cinderella and her mother, even after her death.
Sketches to come
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