There is always a twisted ending and maybe the plot of the story in most Disney movies. Disney's main intention is to expand viewers. This why they always create a happy-ending to every movie they produce. Like the list below. I have gathered some information to reveal the real grim fairy tales. The article below is purely copied and pasted from some other websites that I have listed down below at the bottom of this post :D. So all credits goes to respective websites and not me.
The Little Mermaid
Most of you have probably know the grim version of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. In the original version, the mermaid did not end up with the man of her dreams. She sacrificed herself in order to save the prince. The story goes like this, the main character can only come on land by drinking a potion. Unfortunately, in the end, the prince married another girl which made the little mermaid heartbroken and so she threw herself into the sea where her body dissolves into seam foam.
Beauty and The Beast
“The father is rich. There is no mother. The father has three sons and three daughters. The youngest daughter, the most attractive, is called “The Little Beauty”. All sisters except Beauty are vain and selfish and jealous of Beauty. Beauty, of course, is demure and loving towards everyone.The father suddenly falls poor, and then has to go on a trip. He asks his daughters what they want. The daughters (except Beauty), want expensive clothes. Beauty just wants a rose. The Father finds and picks a rose, but he’s confronted by the rose’s owner, the Beast. As punishment, the Beast demands the father’s life as payment, or he’ll also settle for the lives of one of his daughters. The Father is allowed to return home to make his decision. When Beauty hears the father’s story, she begs to take her Father’s place. She does, and heads to the Beast’s castle.
The Beast treats her well, meeting her every need. Every night, he asks her to marry him. She always refuses, but finds herself starting to like the Beast. The Beast allows Beauty to visit her father, but requires that she be back in a week. At home, the other daughters conspire to keep Beauty past her deadline, in the hopes that the Beast will track Beauty down and kill her.
She overstays the week. The Beast does make an appearance, but only in Beauty’s dreams. In these, he reproaches her for leaving him. Beauty then realizes she loves the Beast, and that her broken promise has broken the Beast’s heart. She returns to the Beast, professes her love and agrees to marry him, and he immediately turns into a prince.
Beauty and the Beast are joined by the father and the sons. Beauty’s sisters, however, are turned into statues, and are cursed to remain that way until they “own up to their faults”. Doing this in statue form might be difficult, but I suppose that’s their problem.
In many versions of the story, the Beast is never described – his appearance is left to the imagination of the reader (and a select team of Disney animators). However, in one version, he is said to have a “snakelike” appearance. At the end of this version, the newly-transformed prince explains that snakelike appearance: he was cursed because he “seduced an orphan”. I have a hard time believing that pedophilia is acceptable anywhere, yet Beauty is able to forgive the Beast and they live happily ever after.
Symbolism is smeared all over this story: the Beast and his eventual transformation represent sexual fear and confusion evolving into sexual maturity. The rose (given by the father to Beauty) is a symbol of virginity and the father’s acceptance of Beauty’s growth into a woman. The symbol of the snake represents sexual lust and evil living in Paradise.
The morals of the original Beauty and the Beast: From a child’s perspective, sex may seem scary – or beastly – but an adult learns it’s a wonderful thing. Like Beauty’s relationship with her father, some aspects of the Oedipal complex (In psychoanalysis, a subconscious sexual desire in a child, especially a male child, for the parent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility to the parent of the same sex.) can be beneficial and positive. A life where all your desires are immediately answered will quickly turn depressing and boring. In contrast, life is truly lived when you’re motivated by conflict and love.”
Hercules: Murders Wife and Kids
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| Louvre G 192, Attic red figure stamnos, c. 480-470 B.C. The baby Hercules wrestles with the snakes Hera has sent to his crib. Photograph by Maria Daniels, courtesy of the Musée du Louvre |
Hera remained angry. How could she get even? Hera knew that she would lose in a fight, and that she wasn't powerful enough to prevent Zeus from having his way. Hera decided to pay Zeus back for his infidelity by making the rest of Hercules' life as miserable as she could.When Hercules grew up and had become a great warrior, he married Megara. They had two children. Hercules and Megara were very happy, but life didn't turn out for them the way it does in the movie. Hera sent a fit of madness to Hercules that put him into so great a rage, he murdered Megara and the children.”
Tarzan: Sacrificing for a Misery
“Based on the novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs tells the story of John Clayton, born in the western coastal jungles of equatorial Africa to a marooned couple from England, John and Alice (Rutherford) Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke. Adopted as an infant by the she-ape Kala after his parents died (his father is killed by the savage king ape Kerchak), Clayton is named "Tarzan" ("White Skin" in the ape language) and raised in ignorance of his human heritage.
Feeling alienated from his peers due to their physical differences, he discovers his true parents' cabin, where he first learns of others like himself in their books, with which he eventually teaches himself to read.On his return from one visit to the cabin, he is attacked by a huge gorilla which he manages to kill with his father's knife, although he is terribly wounded in the struggle. As he grows up, Tarzan becomes a skilled hunter, gradually arousing the jealousy of Kerchak, the ape leader.
Later, a tribe of black Africans settles in the area, and Kala is killed by one of its hunters. Avenging himself on the killer, Tarzan begins an antagonistic relationship with the tribe, raiding its village for weapons and practicing cruel pranks on them. They, in turn, regard him as an evil spirit and attempt to placate him.
The twelve short stories Burroughs wrote later and collected as Jungle Tales of Tarzan occur in the period immediately following the arrival of the natives, the killing of Kala, and Tarzan's vengeance.
Finally Tarzan has amassed so much credit among the apes of the tribe that the envious Kerchak at last attacks him. In the ensuing battle Tarzan kills Kerchak and takes his place as "king" of the apes.
Subsequently, a new party of whites is marooned on the coast, including Jane Porter, the first white woman Tarzan has ever seen. Tarzan's cousin, William Cecil Clayton, unwitting usurper of the ape man's ancestral English estate, is also among the party. Tarzan spies on the newcomers, aids them, and saves Jane from the perils of the jungle. Absent when they are rescued, he is introduced further into the mysteries of civilization by French Naval Officer Paul D'Arnot, whom he saves from the natives. D'Arnot teaches Tarzan French and how to behave among white men, as well as serving as his guide to the nearest colonial outposts.
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Ultimately, Tarzan travels to Jane's native Baltimore, Maryland only to find that she is now in the woods of Wisconsin. Tarzan finally meets Jane in Wisconsin where they renew their acquaintance and he learns the bitter news that she has become engaged to William Clayton. Meanwhile, clues from his parents' cabin have enabled D'Arnot to prove Tarzan's true identity. Instead of claiming his inheritance, Tarzan chooses rather to conceal and renounce his heritage for the sake of Jane's happiness.”
Sleeping Beauty
“In the original sleeping beauty, the lovely princess is put to sleep when she pricks her finger on a spindle. She sleeps for one hundred years when a prince finally arrives, kisses her, and awakens her. They fall in love, marry, and (surprise surprise) live happily ever after. But alas, the original tale is not so sweet (in fact, you have to read this to believe it.) In the original, the young woman is put to sleep because of a prophesy, rather than a curse. And it isn’t the kiss of a prince which wakes her up: the king seeing her asleep, and rather fancying having a bit, rapes her. After nine months she gives birth to two children (while she is still asleep). One of the children sucks her finger which removes the piece of flax which was keeping her asleep. She wakes up to find herself raped and the mother of two kids.”
Snow White: Cannibalism and Necrophilia
“Let’s look at Snow White’s name and her origin. The Brothers Grimm’s version of the story describes it this way:
“Once upon a time, in the middle of winter when the snow flakes fell like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window which had a frame of black ebony. And as she was sewing while looking at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle and three drops of blood fell on the snow. The red looked so beautiful on the white snow that she thought to herself, ‘I wish I had a child as white as snow, as red as the blood, and had hair as black as ebony.’”
Thus we have Snow White, she of black hair, white skin and red lips.
The story of Snow White revolves around an evil queen who, despite her best efforts, is surpassed and replaced by her daughter. Like many in Hollywood, the queen is not content to grow old gracefully. She also can’t appreciate the blossoming and beauty of her daughter. She instead hates Snow White and wants her dead.
Early versions of the story have the queen go out riding with the king and Snow White on a horse-drawn coach ride. She tells Snow White to get out and pick roses. Then she tells the coachman to drive away fast, deserting Snow White. At this point, Snow White is seven years old.
The queen later realizes that Snow White didn’t die from exposure, and so starts plotting to have her killed. She hires a mercenary hunter, but the hunter fails both morally and legally – after finding Snow White, he refuses to kill her, but also refuses to help Snow White: he leaves her stranded alone in the forest.
The queen has a precondition for the hunter’s return. As proof of the kill, she wants the hunter to bring back Snow White’s heart, lungs and liver. After the hunter returns with organs and entrails taken from a butchered animal, the queen salts them down, cooks them and eats them. In primitive thinking, it is thought that one develops the powers and attributes of whatever one eats. The queen knows this and wants a double bonus: she kills Snow White while also stealing her beauty and youth.
Variations on the Snow White story focus heavily on Snow White and the Dwarves, and ignore the nastier plot points with the queen. The queen herself also changes – she’s sometimes a countess, and sometimes a step-mother instead of a genetic mother.
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The queen disguises herself, and visits Snow White three times at the dwarves’ house. Snow White lets her in each time, despite warnings from the dwarves to never let anyone in the house. The first time, the disguised queen offers to sell Snow White some “stay-laces”, which are similar in function to the straps on a corset. When Snow White tries on these stay-laces, the queen cinches them so tightly Snow White can’t breathe and falls unconscious. The queen departs, and the dwarves return later and unlace Snow White. I couldn’t find much information on the queen’s second visit, only that it involved her combing Snow White’s hair and Snow White falling unconscious. On the third visit, the queen offers Snow White the famous poisoned apple. As proof of its safety, the queen cuts the apple in half, and eats the “white piece”. She gives Snow White the “red piece”. Snow White, perhaps never having seen a normal apple before, takes a bite and keels over.
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Everyone thinks Snow White is dead. They bury her in a clear coffin made of glass. She’s out for a long time, visited by the seven dwarves and three birds – an owl, a raven and a dove.
A prince comes along, and finds Snow White in her coffin. He moves or nudges the coffin, and this jostles the poisoned apple out of Snow White’s mouth. She wakes up from her death-like sleep, and marries the prince.
In the end, the queen is killed. Her macabre punishment is with a pair of metal shoes, heated in a furnace until red-hot. The shoes are put on the queen’s feet. The queen “dances” in these fiery shoes until she falls down dead.
The morals of the original Snow White: As we learn from the Queen’s speech of “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all,” narcissism is a bad thing. The child will always eclipse the parent, and this process cannot and should not be stopped. The religious iconography of the poisoned apple is hard to ignore, leading us to ponder the inevitability of forbidden knowledge and intellectual and spiritual growth. Reaching physical adulthood does not mean you’re emotionally ready for it.”
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Cinderella: Brutality
“ Professor Harold Terrell from Northwest Mississippi Community College, states that: “Disney adapted the 1697 Perrault (French) version for his animated feature, the most popular Cinderella story. Although you have a disclaimer (older origins), there is no original version. The German variant (Aschenputtel) you describe is from 1857 (edited from the 1812 version), so even if there were an original, 1697 predates the German variant you claim as original, as does the Italian version of 1634/1635 by Giambattista Basile, or the Chinese version from 850–so, in other words, the Brothers Grimm story is NOT the original.
Look at the scholarly works of Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar. They may help with your confusion.”
While the Cinderella plotline has remained much the same, a few gruesome scenes were left out in modern retellings. In modern versions, the stepsisters try to force Cinderella’s glass slipper on their own feet, only to be frustrated and disappointed when the slipper doesn’t fit. The original story shows the stepsisters’ extreme determination and brutality: since their feet don’t fit in the slipper, they just cut off pieces of their feet that don’t fit. They slice off parts of their toes and heel, and then try to shove their feet into the increasingly bloody slipper.
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The original Cinderella story ends with the evil stepsisters and stepmother having their eyes plucked out and eaten by ravenous white birds.
The morals of the original Cinderella: Don’t focus on physical aspects. Focus instead on spiritual quality.”
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Rapunzel
“The word “rapunzel” is a derivative of the German word for “rampion”. Rampion is a European vegetable, and was a favorite food of Rapunzel’s mother. This mother convinces her husband to enter a forbidden garden and steal rampion. She desperately wants the vegetable – this craving is a symptom of her pregnancy. The garden is owned by a sorceress, who catches the husband. The husband explains the situation, and in lieu of punishment, offers the sorceress the soon-to-be-born baby Rapunzel as payment for the transgression. Life with her new mother is good until Rapunzel turns twelve. Then the sorceress puts Rapunzel into a tall tower, one that’s impossible to climb unaided. Luckily, Rapunzel has freakishly long hair: when the sorceress visits Rapunzel to bring food (and, presumably, lots of shampoo), the sorceress stands at the foot of the tower and calls out:
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb the golden stair.”
Rapunzel throws down her hair, braces herself, and the sorceress climbs this unique ladder into the tower.
One day a wandering prince hears Rapunzel singing from inside her tower. He sneaks up and sees the sorceress call out and ascend the tower. After the sorceress leaves, he stands at the tower and says the sorceress’s line. He climbs Rapunzel’s hair. Thus begins a peculiar but successful dating regimen, and after a few more visits and plenty of sex, Rapunzel becomes pregnant. Not knowing about the mysteries of pregnancy and childbirth, she makes a mistake. When the sorceress next visits, Rapunzel asks why her dress is growing so tight around her stomach.
In anger, the sorceress chops off Rapunzel’s hair and banishes her into a nearby desert. The sorceress waits in the tower for the prince to return. When the prince next climbs the hair, he comes face to face with the sorceress. In fear and depression from having lost Rapunzel, he jumps from the tower, and lands in a thorn bush. The thorns pierce his eyes and blind him. He stumbles off into a forest, lamenting his bad fortune and generally acting pretty mopey while bumping into trees.
Rapunzel and the prince wander around separately for a while. Eventually, they get close enough, because one day the price hears Rapunzel singing, just like when he first found her tower. They reunite, and Rapunzel’s tears of joy land in the prince’s eyes, curing his blindness. The prince takes Rapunzel back to his kingdom. At this point, we can assume the situation is “happily ever after”, though nothing more is said about what befalls the sorceress or Rapunzel’s unborn child.
The morals of the original Rapunzel: A child maturing into adulthood can’t be stopped. It is a parent’s emotional burden to want to delay this process, though they shouldn’t act on it. Pregnant women may sometimes have strange requests for food.”
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“The story written by Victor Hugo begins on Epiphany (6 January), medieval 1482, the day of the 'Feast of Fools' in Paris, France. Quasimodo, the deformed hunchback bell-ringer of Notre Dame, is introduced by his crowning as King of Fools.
Esmeralda, a beautiful Gypsy with a kind and generous heart, captures the hearts of many men, including those of a Captain Phoebus and a poor street poet, Pierre Gringoire, but especially those of Quasimodo and his adoptive father, Claude Frollo, the Archdeacon of Notre Dame. Frollo is torn between his obsessive love and the rules of the church. He orders Quasimodo to kidnap her, but the hunchback is suddenly captured by Phoebus and his guards who save Esmeralda. Quasimodo is sentenced to be flogged and turned on the pillory for one hour, followed by another hour's public exposure. He calls for water. Esmeralda, seeing his thirst, offers him a drink. It saves him, and she captures his heart.
Esmeralda is later charged with the attempted murder of Phoebus, whom Frollo actually attempted to kill in jealousy, after seeing him about to have sex with Esmeralda, and is tortured and sentenced to death by hanging. As she is being led to the gallows, Quasimodo swings down by the bell rope of Notre Dame and carries her off to the cathedral under the law of sanctuary. Clopin, a street performer, rallies the Truands (criminals of Paris) to charge the cathedral and rescue Esmeralda. The King, seeing the chaos, vetoes the law of sanctuary and commands his troops to take Esmeralda out and kill her. When Quasimodo sees the Truands, he assumes they are there to hurt Esmeralda, so he drives them off. Likewise, he thinks the King's men want to rescue her, and tries to help them find her. Fortunately, she is rescued by Frollo and her phony husband, Gringoire. But after yet another failed attempt to win her love, Frollo betrays Esmeralda by handing her to the troops and watches while she is hanged. Quasimodo pushes him from the heights of Notre Dame to his death. Quasimodo then goes to the vaults under the huge gibbet of Montfaucon, and lies next to Esmeralda's corpse, where it had been unceremoniously thrown after the execution. He stays at Montfaucon, and eventually dies of starvation. About eighteen months later, the tomb is opened, and the skeletons are found. As someone tries to separate them, Quasimodo's bones turn to dust.”Sources :
Little Mermaid :http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/10457
Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast : http://www.dbskeptic.com/2008/11/17/more-original-versions-of-classic-fairy-tales/
Sleeping Beauty : http://listverse.com/2009/01/06/9-gruesome-fairy-tale-origins/
Hercules: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Herakles/bio.html
Tarzan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarzan_of_the_Apes
The hunchback of Notre Dame:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame
Oedipal Complex: http://www.answers.com/topic/oedipus-complex#ixzz23oN8xDF5
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