The True Endings of Disney's Fairy Tales: How Cinderella and The Little Mermaid Really End
By now everyone knows that some of Disney's most beautiful and beloved animated stories are inspired by fairy tales handed down for hundreds of years. But maybe you don't know what the endings of these tales are. And, we have to tell you, the happy ending just isn't there. You'll find it hard to believe reality, after all Disney has accustomed us to "and they lived happily ever after" and dream dresses like these:
1. The Little Mermaid dies for love
The Disney cartoon is inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. In the original story, Ariel does not lose her voice, but she no longer has the tongue. Rather disturbing, don't you think? But it doesn't end there: in the original fairy tale the prince falls in love with another girl and breaks poor Ariel's heart, who now faces a dilemma. If he killed the prince, he could return to his family and turn into a mermaid again. the alternative is to commit suicide, throwing yourself into the sea and turning into foam. We can tell you that Ariel will never be a siren again ...
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2. Aurora and the violence of the king
Aurora and the fairies: how much did they make us dream? But in the original story, Aurora's sleep is not broken by any kiss from true love. Indeed, the ending is really violent. A king finds and abuses her, only to return to his kingdom. The princess, still a victim of her sleep, becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. After a series of vicissitudes, the king who had abused her, finds her and marries her.
3. The dramatic death of Quasimodo and Esmeralda
Quasimodo and Esmeralda made us fall in love: he is very ugly but with a tender heart and she is beautiful and with an exotic charm. But the ending of this love story is very different from how we know it: in the original story, in fact, Esmeralda is hanged and Quasimodo throws Frollo from the heights of Notre Dame. The hunchback, desperate, collapses next to the body of the beautiful gypsy and is dying. Romantic?
4. The bad end of Cinderella's stepsisters
What can't you do for a prince and a crystal slipper? If you know the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella, you know that her sisters try to deceive the prince during the shoe fitting. One sister cuts her big toe so that she can put on the shoe and the other, the heel. The stepsisters are unmasked when Cinderella's enchanted birds find the blood on their stockings. As a punishment for their cruelty, birds peck at their eyes and blind them. Happy ending? We are not so sure.
5. How Snow White's Evil Queen Dies
The romantic story of Snow White: the kiss of true love that defeats death, the prince, the white horse ... but the reality is very different: the dwarves place the corpse of Snow White in a glass coffin that a prince finds and decides to take home with him. As the coffin is moved, the piece of apple falls from Snow White's throat and she wakes up. At the wedding, the Evil Queen is forced to wear hot iron shoes and made to dance until her death.
6. Pocahontas and its disease
Pocahontas, the native who teaches the British to love nature and respect it in all its forms, actually falls ill on the way to Virginia and dies. Sad enough, don't you think?
7. Pinocchio does not become a good boy
Pinocchio, in the original story by Carlo Collodi, kills Jiminy Cricket while poor Geppetto ends up in prison for negligence and when he leaves he sells his only coat to allow Pinocchio to buy everything he needs for school. But Pinocchio, instead of books, buys tickets for the Land of Toys, thus wasting what little his father had. The tragedy culminates with the death of Pinocchio by hanging. Not quite a good boy, is he?
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8. Rapunzel and his prince
In the animated film, Rapunzel, locked up in the tower, finds her true love and marries him after discovering she is a princess. But in the original story, things don't quite go that way: Rapunzel's stepmother discovers the relationship between the princess and the prince and cuts poor Rapunzel's hair. When the prince goes to see her, her stepmother deceives him and makes him fall into a bush of brambles. The prince thus becomes blind and wanders for months in solitude in the desert.
9. Mulan and her return from the war
In the story we all know Mulan becomes a "warrior heroine respected throughout China after fighting and defeating the fearsome Huns. But the original story isn't quite like that ... When she returned from the war, Mulan's family had lost everything and for Paying Debts Mulan should have become a slave. To this fate, the heroine prefers suicide.
10. Mowgli and his difficulties
In The Jungle Book We All Love, Mowgli lives happily in the jungle and eventually adjusts to his new life among the men in the village, also finding love. But in the original fairy tale, the little jungle boy will never fit in. proximity to humans and will be accused of being attracted to wolves.
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In short, Disney made us dream, but the original fairy tales bring us back to reality. And to be honest, maybe we preferred the happy ending ...
