between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are striking and the deserve thorough examination. When the Grimm’s version of Cinderella was written in 1812‚ many things were different than the now most commonly known‚ Disney version. Things were more cruel in the Grimm’s version. Cinderella’s father in the Grimm’s version was brutal and rich‚ but in the Disney version‚ her father is dead. This is one example of the major differences in the two stories. In both versions of the Cinderella‚ Cinderella’s
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Bruno Bettelheim believes that the fairy tale Cinderella has a deeper meaning than what meets the eye. He shares his beliefs in his essay‚ "Cinderella: A Story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflict" in which Bettelheim explains the underlying complexity of the story Cinderella. Being a Freudian psychologist‚ Bettelheim believes that a person’s conscious mind takes the fairy tale for face value while the same person’s unconscious mind understands the same fairy tale completely different. The conscious
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With many variations of fantasies‚ "Happily ever after" is reoccurring in every fairy tale. "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton is a different variation of the classic tale. The author sets up her version of Cinderella with four anecdotes sharing how others can go from poverty to riches or gritty reality to fantasy. Sexton changes her happily ever after ending by satirizing the message the story gives. By doing so‚ Sexton would like the reader to know the difference between a fairy tale and reality. Anne
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Judith Butler questions the notion that certain gendered behaviors are a result of learning the performance of gender behavior‚ that which is associated with masculinity and femininity. She argues that it is a social construction that is only true to the extent of it being performed. Gender as defined in Undoing Gender is a “practice of improvisation within a scene of constraint‚” which is within a social context. The stylization of the body‚ gestures‚ movements and enactments create these
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retelling of Cinderella Michelangelo‚ perhaps the most gifted sculptor and painter of all times‚ once said that "geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses." As Michelangelo built upon the brilliance of his predecessors‚ Anne Sexton does the same with her poem "Cinderella". Fairy tales originated as oral traditions and were passed along and sculpted by thousands of story tellers. Each raconteur changes elements in the story to fit their individual needs. Sexton reinvents "Cinderella" as a poem
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both the Grimm version and the Disney version of Cinderella‚ however the Grimm version definitely exemplifies the theme more effectively than the Disney version does. The Grimm version and the Disney version of Cinderella both include punishment to the stepsisters for how they treated Cinderella and they both exemplify the theme. For example‚ in both versions‚ the stepsisters do not get to what they want‚which is to marry the prince and for Cinderella not to be happy. The Disney version kept it this
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The notion that gender is socially constructed is an idea that Judith Butler argues against‚ instead she suggests that gender does not exist. Butler states that gender cannot exist until performed‚ these acts that are performed are merely repetitions of pre-established behaviour. Instead we impersonate what we believe to be gender and gender appropriate‚ these gender conventions that are impossible to maintain as every person is different. (Butler 2009) It is these learned behaviours that establish
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Good Triumphs Evil: Cinderella Cinderella‚ as told by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in Household Tales‚ is a tale most of us are familiar with. Most know the version of the tale as told in the Disney classic animated film. However‚ when told by the Grimm brothers it is a bit more elaborate and quite unlike the Disney version. Yet it is a tale I can relate to‚ as I’m sure many others can as well. I find the moral of the story the authors were trying to get across is that good will triumph evil‚ even
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and father she was a princess.” (Cinderella). This quote was mentioned in both movies. Both the first and the second Cinderella movie are popular‚ and they both show their principle scene‚ which is when Cinderella is getting her dress made for the ball with the assistance of the mice. Both versions also show their respective‚ and classic view of Cinderella’s physical appearance. In the first version of the Cinderella movie as well as the second version‚ Cinderella is wearing her blue dress‚ along
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English 102: Introduction to Literature Instructions from professor: Write an essay (at least 3 pages) - a brief character analysis of Judith. Use examples from the story to support and develop the thesis. Devote particular attention to the details that contribute to the characterization. ==========Body of essay========= Through the revelations of an unnamed narrator‚ we are given a glimpse of Judith’s contradictory attitudes and behaviors without any insight into previous experiences that would
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