Gender Expectations in Cinderella Our culture is full of fairy tales. These fairy tales started out as entertaining stories‚ but as they were handed down from one generation to the next‚ they slowly became more than that. They became bedtime stories for children‚ and as such‚ they have great importance because they teach children how to be in the world. One such fairy tale is Cinderella‚ and a look at a storybook for children‚ Disney’s Cinderella‚ adapted by Lisa Ann Marsoli‚ demonstrates
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Cinderella is faithful re-telling of the classic fairytale. Living with a cruel stepmother and two stepsisters‚ Cinderella longs for a better life. Cinderella is living happily with her mother and father until her mother dies. Cinderella’s father remarries a cold‚ cruel woman who has two daughters‚ Drizella and Anastasia. When the father dies‚ Cinderella’s wicked stepmother turns her into a virtual servant in her own house. Meanwhile‚ across town in the castle‚ the King determines that his son the
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politically correct version of Cinderella‚ it removes the simple educational values that the original portrays. For being a politically correct story it portrays humans is nothing but animals unable to control their actions. We will address couple of stereotypes that this story reinforces. The first stereotype is that man is nothing but an animal and cannot control their desires. In this version of Cinderella women are only considered sexual objects for man’s amusement. When Cinderella walks into the ball
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emotions of children to have a better understanding of their real world. Cinderella‚ one of the most famous fairy tales‚ written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and many other authors portray the struggle of a girl who goes through many hardships to accomplish a beautiful life. The story of Cinderella
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Everyone knows and loves the fairytale “Cinderella” where Cinderella starts out as a maid‚ wearing nothing but rags‚ and doing nothing but chores. She desires to go to this ball‚ but her nasty stepmother sends her to work right away‚ without allowing her to go. Fortunately for Cinderella‚ her fairy Godmother transforms her into a beautiful princess and lets her go to the ball‚ where she meets the price of her dreams. He is astonished by her beauty and in the end of the fairytale they fall in love
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Rhetorical Analysis: Cinderella Cinderella’s story is undoubtedly the most popular fairy tale all over the world. Her fairy tale is one of the best read and emotion filled story that we all enjoyed as young and adults. In Elizabeth Pantajja’s analysis‚ Cinderella’s story still continues to evoke emotions but not as a love story but a contradiction of what we some of us believe. Pantajja chose Cinderella’s story to enlighten the readers that being good and piety are not the reason for Cinderella’s
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Chinese Cinderella is Adeline Yen Mah’s remarkable autobiography of her childhood. She was a rejected daughter growing up in World War II China. She longed for her father’s acceptance after her mother died in childbirth and her father remarried a young and cruel Eurasian woman. She finally receives his attention and brings honor to her family by winning a creative writing competition. In Adeline’s story the idea’s of rejection‚ abandonment and overcoming adversity is cleverly conveyed through the
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Princess in Disguise “Cinderella and Princess Culture” written by Peggy Orenstein argues that not every girl says or wants to be a like a princess. She says everyone assumes that every little girl’s favorite colors are pink and purple. Not every girl wants to be princesses like most people think. Orenstein stresses in her article that the princesses craze culture is ruining young girls life’s as they feel constantly pressured to be perfect. “I have been taken by surprise by the princess craze
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T a h r ’N t s eces oe W RITTEN BY SUSAN LA M ARCA Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah This book is the moving autobiography of a young Chinese girl‚ Adeline Yen Mah. Born the fifth child to an affluent Chinese family her life begins tragically. Adeline’s mother died shortly after her birth due to complications bought on by the delivery‚ and in Chinese culture this marks her as cursed or ‘bad luck’ (p.3). This situation is compounded by her father’s new marriage to a lady who has little
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evil stepfamily. Countless versions of this story has been retold all over the world; "Cinderella" is one of these stories. Disney’s "Cinderella" and the Brothers Grimm’s "Aschenputtel" are two tales that are similar because they both possess a missing slipper‚ an evil stepfamily‚ and a damsel in distress. "Cinderella" and "Aschenputtel" include a girl who loses her slipper at a special gathering. Cinderella loses her magical glass slipper at a ball after having a splendid time with the handsome
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