Cinderella Vs Ashputtle Essay

“Fairytales are unique, not only as a form of literature, but as works of art which are fully comprehensible to the child as no other form of art is.” we were introduced several versions of Cinderella in “Damsels in Distress”. For generations, the Cinderella story had been one of the most popular fairytales around the world; there are countless modified versions of it. For this analysis, I chose “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault and “Ashputtle” by the Grimm Brothers and applying them to the ideas from the article, “The Struggle for Meaning”. The most familiar version of “Cinderella” in western society was the written by Charles Perrault in 1667, it was then later used by Disney for a children’s film production. The Grimm Bothers’ modified version of the story is mainly based on Perrault’s version with a little twist in it. In general, both of the stories share a similar story-line.
A widower with his daughter (Cinderella or Ashputtle) was remarried to a “stuck-up” woman and her two daughters. The man’s daughter are Cinderella or Ashputtle, they were named by their stepsisters, and have been treated poorly by
But such one-sided fare nourishes the mind only in one-sided way, and real life is not all sunny.” In Bruno Bettelheim’s “The Struggle For Meaning”, Mr. Bettelheim talked about how fairy tales can be so effective at grasping children’s minds into the ideas and morals of the fairy tales. “A child needs to understand what is going on within his conscious self so that he can also cope with that which goes on in his unconscious.” Cinderella is a very “effective” story, just like children’s fantasy, the setting of the story is in a kingdom involved with kings and queens. The magic is a crucial part of the story of Cinderella; it turned the ordinary story into a fascinating