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    to unravel an underlying mystery of the classic children’s tale; that the stepmother and the witch are the same person. With a new vantage point on the story‚ a common theme of betrayal is encountered in Gretel’s lifelong quest for affection. There are three scenes that Glück eliminated that are crucial to the development of the proposed witch and stepmother congruency. The first scene is the one in which the stepmother explains her motive for getting rid of the children. In the story‚ it is

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    other girl is Linda‚ his daughter. [The dad opens the door and three people walk in with luggage] DAD Welcome home honey. This is my daughter Linda and Linda(turns to Linda ) this is your stepmother and your stepsisters. LINDA Wh..hh..at??oh er.. welcome home! (Linda feels uncomfortable) STEPMOTHER Heloo sweetie! Hi dear! Tiara-Siara say hi to your new dad and sister. TIARA-SIARA Hiii daddy ‚ Hi sissy!! [together] DAD Ok c’mon in everybody [everyone comes in and sits at the sofa.]

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    ULBS 2013 CINDERELLA CAST : NARRATOR : SOFEA MARDIANA CINDERELLA : AINUL SUHANA STEPMOTHER : NUR KHALEEDA NADZIRAH STEPSISTER : KALAIMANI PRINCE : NURUL NADHIRA WHITE ANGEL : DALILA REZAL KING : DALILA REZAL GUARDSMAN : SOFEA MARDIANA Once upon a time in a faraway castle‚ lived a beautiful little girl named Cinderella and her widowed father‚ Fernando. Cinderella’s mother passed away since Cinderella was born. Slowly‚ her father became so lonely and he decided to get married again. Few

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    Cinderella’s father married a woman who had two daughters of her own. Cinderella’s stepmother and stepsisters were not kind. The Stepmother gave her daughters‚ Lottie and Dottie‚ fancy dresses and wonderful toys. She gave Cinderella nothing. Then‚ sadly‚ Cinderella’s father died too‚ and Cinderella was left in the large house with her Stepmother‚ Lottie and Dottie. Cinderella’s life was awful. The Stepmother made Cinderella a servant in her own house. Cinderella had to rise early every morning

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    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 wood‚ she ends up realizing the fish has been eaten by the stepmother and stepsister. She was left with the bones

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    men and marriage” and the relationship among daughter‚ stepmother‚ natural mother and father with reference to several popular classic fairy tales. Rowe states that “the stepmother[s]…embody the major obstacles against [innocent stepdaughters] to womanhood…they personify predatory female sexuality and the adolescent’s negative feelings toward her mother”(240). This is what I want to explore in my research paper: how characteristic of stepmothers in fairy tales affect the views of young children toward

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    In my young age on the regular basis‚ I remember the time when my mother to waked my brother and me up prepares us for school. There‚ we head to our kitchen where our mother is cooking us hot breakfast. Then here came my father who grabbed a piece of Chinese pancake‚ kissed my mother‚ and head off to work. We kissed our mother and trotted off to our school bus‚ heading to our school. When the school was done for the day‚ my brother and I were so excited to come home‚ seeing our dinner waiting

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    common theme in fairy tales is that the women are the victims that are dominated by a male‚ also there is a reoccurring theme of the terrible stepmother. Another theme that is common in fairy tales is that the women are forced to work‚ they are the ones who do the hard labor. In many fairy tales there are evil stepsisters that come along with the horrible stepmother and they taunt and harass‚ just like their mother. Three fairy tales that have the reoccurring themes of the evil stepfamily‚ women

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    stories about two young beautiful maidens who are treated badly by their stepmother and stepsisters. The story’s message is to teach people that goodness is always rewarded in the end. In the stories “Aschenputtel” and “Yeh-Shen” both share the same sad background. They both lost their mother when they were young‚ leave them to been raised by their evil stepmothers. As the two beautiful young maidens grow older‚ their stepmothers become more jealous with their beauty and grace so they are force to

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    Both were maltreated by their stepmothers‚ both original mothers die and both gradually become more powerful and renowned throughout their lives. The two girls were severely maltreated by their stepmothers throughout their childhood years. Chinese Cinderella‚ Ye Xian‚ was bullied by her stepmother. In the letter from Aunt Baba about the Chinese Cinderella‚ it said‚ “Her stepmother maltreated her‚ showing preference for her own daughter.” So what Ye Xian’s stepmother did was‚ she ate Ye Xian’s only

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