Rapunzel or Tangled?

I chose a cartoon drawn by the cartoonist, Claire Keane, to discuss the Rapunzel motif compared to the Disney film, “Tangled”, and the Brothers Grimm fairytale, “Rapunzel”. In this cartoon, Rapunzel is drawn kneeling against a wall painting a mural, with her long luscious blonde hair tied up and flowing behind her. This is similar to the scene in the Disney film where she is seen swinging through her tower and painting every inch of the walls of her prison with bright and colorful scenes. In the film, her main mural is a painting she did of the lanterns that are released on her birthday every year. The painting she is working on in the cartoon seems to be flowers and birds, in replacement of the lanterns. This cartoon captures how lonely and miserable she is being locked away in a tower, something that Rapunzel in “Tangled” did not seem to be. In the Disney film, Rapunzel had her friend, Pascal, to keep her company, and she seemed to have a good relationship with her “Mother”. However, in the Brothers Grimm version, her life is depicted of being boring and worthless until her prince charming arrives. In the Brothers Grimm version, there is no mention of Rapunzel having paints or painting the walls of her tower, like in the Disney fairytale. This cartoon, does have some similarities that occur in both versions of the fairytale, like how the princess is drawn with long blonde hair, but in this cartoon she seems to be wearing rags where in the Disney version, Rapunzel was always dressed in a beautiful purple dress. https://66.media.tumblr.com/6540769b4a9b8a6ac750566ee6de44c9/tumblr_niyc7e8uHf1rwyx9ko3_250.jpg