Perrault Reference: 10 pages Characters: Ella (but her sisters call her cinders) - A nobleman’s daughter‚ she is forced to work as the servant of her house because of her controlling stepmother. Lady Tramaine - Her dads second wife‚ she is controlling and jealous‚ she gives her the nickname "Cinderella" because she usually has cinders on her face from cleaning the chimney.
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From Chinese Cinderella Growing up in a wealthy family in 1950s Hong Kong‚ Adeline Yen Mah should have had an enviable childhood‚ but she was rejected by her dominating stepmother and despised by her brothers and sisters. She was sent to a boarding school and left there. In this extract from her autobiography she relates one of the few occasions when she went home. Time went by relentlessly and it was Saturday again. Eight weeks more and it would be the end of term … in my case perhaps the end of
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EVERAFTER/A CINDERELLA STORY Cinderella is a classic childhood fairy tale of a young woman who’s mother and father both die‚ leaving her with a wicked stepmother and two wicked stepsisters. There have been several movies portraying this classic tale. One of which is Everafter starring Drew Barrymore. In this movie a girl loses her father and mother leaving her to be a servant for her stepmother. She meets a prince and falls in love. In another Cinderella type story line A Cinderella Story starring
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One such fairy tale is Charles Perrault’s classic known as Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper‚ which on the surface seems to be a magical story about a young woman who is forced to live as a servant in her own home due to her evil stepmother and stepsisters‚ but then is ‘rescued’ by her Prince Charming. However‚ the story tends to perpetuate numerous gender roles and stereotypes‚ and defines expectations of ‘goodness’ for women. Cinderella is more damaging than valuable to children because the tale
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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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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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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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