Fairy Tale Stereotypes in Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella”: Raggedly Ever After Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella” illuminates the unrealistic and prejudiced stereotypes in age-old fairy tales‚ stereotypes inadvertently etched on the minds of millions of children. Sexton uses a conversational tone that remains oblivious to the initial hardships of the “rags to riches” maiden to highlight the insignificance and passiveness of women and the influential and dominant character of men. She conveys to the world’s
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A Comparison and Contrast of “Cinderella” and “Ashputtle” Cinderella and Ashputtle are two different stories based on the same plot. Ashputtle is a German story‚ and Cinderella is from France. From what one can tell from reading the two versions‚ these two countries are able to produce very different styles of writing. The stories Ashputtle and Cinderella are very similar in plot‚ yet the details are very different in multiple ways. The German story‚ Ashputtle‚ is a much harsher story
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Bianca Mendoza English 102 Rhetorical analysis Cinderella Not So Morally Superior Cinderella clean the floors‚ Cinderella we need our breakfast‚ Cinderella where are our dresses! When we hear about Cinderella what comes to mind? Growing up when someone talked about Cinderella it was to talk about how she was mistreated. Cinderella was always given chores‚ and she never got the opportunity to have fun. She had no one on her side. Her mom passed away when she was born and‚ her father remarried
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THE HERO’S JOURNEY Joseph Campbell‚ an American psychologist and mythological researcher‚ wrote a famous book entitled The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In his lifelong research Campbell discovered many common patterns running through hero myths and stories from around the world. Years of research lead Campbell to discover several basic stages that almost every heroquest goes through (no matter what culture the myth is a part of). He calls this common structure “the monomyth.” George Lucas‚ the
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The one poem I found interesting was "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton. I expected the poem to just be a fancy version of the princess tale Cinderella which everyone knows that story. I expected it to be boring and everything I already knew about the fairytale. But this version was a more grim tale of the orginal. The beginning really hooks you with all the little stories about the plumber winning the sweekskates‚ the nursemaid marring the prince‚ and the milkman buying into real estate. All these people
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Although Cinder and Cinderella have many similarities and differences like‚cruel step moms they have more differences. To start off we learned about Cinder named is different than Cinderella her real named is ella and her evil step-sisters came up with the name of “Cinderella.”Next‚ Cinder real parents died from lutmosis and so did her step-dad.Also‚ she is a cyborg and figure outs later on that she is a lunar‚ and Ella is a regular human. Next‚ Cinder has robotic parts and Cinderella has normal legs
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The life of people during the Great Depression was poverty stricken‚ jobless‚ and too many it was hopeless. Life during this time was portrayed very well in the movie “Cinderella Man.” James Braddock is a perfect example of life during this time. He was as poor as the movie displayed him to be and he did have to go receive relief money from the government to heat his house and keep his children. “His Irish-Catholic back round played a major role in the values he held onto‚ specifically the one of
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Compare/Contrast Cinderella Essay “The Walt Disney Company is a powerful economic and cultural phenomenon known throughout the United States and the world as a provider of family entertainment (Maltin‚ 1‚ 308). Its media and entertainment holdings establish it as a central communicator in contemporary life. As such‚ it provides many of the first narratives children use to learn about the world” (Ward‚ 1). Disney has always been family oriented making it one of the main attractions of reading something
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Drawing on her many years of psychology training and client therapy‚ Jacqueline Schectman‚ director of training for the Jung Institute of Boston‚ makes a comparison between the four archetypes in Cinderella and the stages of grief families and children she treats in therapy. In her article‚ she describes a step-mother who‚ rather than hostile and unfeeling‚ seems to present a structure and truth to an abandoned little girl; step-sisters who are themselves reeling from unacknowledged grief; and a
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We’ve always read or been read fairy tales once in our lives‚ and how do they always end? Yes‚ happily ever after. In Anne Sexton’s "Cinderella"‚ she shakes up the traditional fairy tale‚ by adding her own tale. She uses sarcasm to finish the tale‚ causing the reader’s expectation of a happy ending and a traditional fairy tale to disappear. In doing so‚ she depicts the difference between the fairy tale and reality world. With Sexton’s harsh words of reality‚ she breaks the dreams of the readers
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