Have you read any Cinderella stories rather than the one everyone knows? If not there are many other Cinderella story’s to read but the one everyone knows is the original one which is much alike to the France one. There are other versions like Mexico‚ German‚ Chinese‚ and Africa and many others more. Two that have some similarities and differences are the French and Chinese. In the France and Chinese Cinderella story a beautiful young girl suffers a lot and is very badly mistreated but at the end
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Every little girl‚ at some point in their childhood‚ dreams of being whisked away from their mundane lives by a charming prince and have their happily ever after.[i] Fairy tales like Snow White‚ Rapunzel‚ Sleaping Beauty‚ and Cinderella are told in some form or another to practically everyone in the world‚ and with good reason. These stories combine the universal desire for a better life with the hope of finding true love. But the fairy tales always end with the prince and newfound princess getting
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Starnes English 252 January 24‚2011 Despondently Ever After… In the familiar more traditional version‚ Cinderella is a poor maid girl that‚ with the help of fairy godmother‚ gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love‚ get married‚ and live happily ever after‚ and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark comedic poem Cinderella‚ Anne Sexton forces the reader to examine this question. Utilizing literary devices such as tone‚ imagery‚ and
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Cinderella Man Essay When you think of the Roaring Twenties‚ Jazz musicians‚ The Harlem Renaissance‚ and flappers all come to mind. They all remind you of great joy and happiness. Light-weight contender James J. Braddock was an average family man living a great‚ successful life in the United States during the year of 1928. When the Great Depression hit due to the stock market crash‚ James’ life started to go downhill and it was becoming harder for him to provide for his family. After losing an
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The story of Cinderella began in ancient China and has since been translated and recreated numerous times into stories‚ plays‚ and even movies. Perrault and Disney’s versions of Cinderella took special interest to Louis Bernikow‚ in which she analyzed in her essay “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies”. In the essay‚ Bernikow shows that “there are two worlds in the Cinderella cartoon‚ one of women‚ one of men” (270)‚ and that the women in the story need men. In “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon
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in Two Poems In the two poems‚ "Cinderella and Barbie Doll‚" both authors use different literary devices to prove a common theme. The common theme throughout both poems is that people will mutilate themselves to obtain what they perceive as happiness. Also‚ the poems show how societies create a standard of living‚ which classifies how certain genders should act. The poem "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton is describing the original fairytale "Cinderella" in a distorted view. Anne Sexton begins
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Comparing and Contrasting Cinderella Stories By: Andi Borchers P4 How many Cinderella stories do you think there are? There is over 900 of them! But right now I’m only going to compare\contrast 3 stories called‚ “Ashenputtle”‚ “Yeh-Shen”‚ and “The Algonquin Cinderella”. Plus 1 poem‚ “Interview”. All of these stories‚ not the poem‚ are from long ago! Yet‚ the poem is a modern poem! Here is all of the compare/contrast I’m going to do. The similarities in some of these stories except the poem are
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The two fairy tales‚ the princess and the frog and Cinderella‚ have more similarities than expected. They both have princesses that didn’t start out as princesses. The villains in the two stories both try to stop the prince and princess from finding their true loves‚ but in the end it doesn’t work out in their favor. In the princess and the frog‚ Prince Naveen comes to the town where Tiana lives. He is looking for a bride so he can have all of his family’s riches. A man who messes with
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The video that I selected to compare the Cinderella Grimm version is Yeh Shen‚ which is a Chinese fairytale. Yeh Shen is an orphan who lives in a cave with her stepmother and stepsister. Yeh Shen goes to the pond where she is greeted by her only friend who is a fish named Golden Eyes. Her stepmother and stepsister see her talking to the fish and they send her to retrieve wood from a far away place. While Yeh Shen is gone‚ the stepmother captures and cooks the fish. When Yeh Shen comes back from gathering
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Charles Perrault’s Cinderella comes complete with a classic fairy tale ending. The slipper fits and Cinderella marries the prince. Thus‚ the reader infers that he lives "happily ever after." When a tale’s ending is so basic it is tempting for a reader to consider if Cinderella lived a truly happy life. Lynne McFall contemplates this idea in Pig Happiness. Pig Happiness contemplates whether a life is truly happy in some different circumstances. The scenario that fits Cinderella the best would be the
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