has always been that girl mistreated very poorly but has never give up. Her stepmother begins to show her true colors after her and her father got married. “She employed her in the meanest work of the house” (Perraultt). Cinderella step mother was very mean and only cared about her real daughters in the French story. But in the Chinese story Yeh-Shen real mother died. And her father married someone else and her stepmother did not like Yeh-Shen so she mistreated her and killed Yeh-Shen’s fish which
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seemingly entirely based on her looks‚ which is extremely materialistic in nature‚ and implies that at the time‚ a girl had to be attractive to find true love. The issue of remarriage is also present in the tale‚ because two evil stepsisters and an evil stepmother are the main antagonists. They took away all of Cinderella’s prized possessions and made her perform chores around the house. A modern Disney adaptation of Cinderella exists‚ and removes all of the more gruesome parts of the story‚ such as the
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The Unsolved Case of Lizzie Borden The Lizzie Borden nursery rhyme is about a daughter murdering her father and stepmother. The Lizzie Borden case is unsolved due to the lack of evidence. The reports say that Lizzie murdered her stepmother‚ Abby Durfree Gray Borden‚ then she murdered her father‚ Andrew Jackson Borden. This event occurred in Massachusetts in the year of 1892. The Lizzie Borden case is still important today due to the fact that it remains unsolved after 123 years. Lizzie Borden
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The Love Story Once upon a time there was a teenage girl that lived in a small town with her stepmother Messalina and step sisters called Valeria and Selen. Her named was Rose she had been living with them since her dad passed away in a horrible car accident. Rose was just seven years old when that happened and since that day she was treated like a slave following orders of her stepmother and sisters. Rose was a smart girl in school and she managed doing everything like working in the restaurant
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the struggles that come with having more power in a society than someone else. Despite all of the harsh treatment that Cinderella is given‚ she is still considered to be far more beautiful and kinder than her stepsisters‚ which only maddened her stepmother more because it made her own daughters look bad. Being in the higher
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Throughout the many renditions of “Cinderella”‚ there is a clear line between the Stepmother‚ Stepsisters‚ and Cinderella. Yet in Andy Tennant’s Ever After: A Cinderella Story the director takes that division another step further and separates the Stepsisters and Stepmother from each other. Tennant pits the Stepmother and one of her daughters against the Cinderella. The curveball‚ the second stepsister‚ is cast out to the side‚ a somewhat neutral party who favors Danielle but still longs for her
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While Cinderella’s mother and the Fairy Godmother are not named‚ her stepmother and stepsisters are and hold many conversation with Cinderella and each other that revolve around numerous things like clothing‚ chores‚ nature and kindness. But‚ people still tend to have a problem with the story‚ thinking it feminist. In the film‚ the stepmother and step sisters obsess over their own looks and constantly put down Cinderella‚ even her name is a mockery. Then
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have to do with the having an evil stepmother and how she wants all of the attention for herself. So‚ she did what was necessary to get all the attention. In “Snow White” there was never really a problem with poverty‚ but there were problems when it came to the relationship of being loved by her father more than the husband loved his wife‚ which was a problem for the step mother. In “Hansel and Gretel” the children’s presence created trouble for their stepmother‚ and because of this their life had
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the magical entity‚ the glass slipper‚ the dress‚ the prince‚ and the happily ever-after. What we don’t focus on is the rampant cruelty‚ mutilation‚ and retribution. These three tales are fraught with such actions. In Perrault’s “Cinderella‚” the stepmother cannot bear the good qualities of this pretty girl because they made her own daughters appear the more odious. She gives her the meanest work of the house. Cinderella sleeps at the top of the house on a wretched straw bed‚ while her sisters slept
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Compare with Yen-Shen in the Chinese version‚ Yen-Shen is left behind by her stepmother and her stepsister. As the wise old man tells her that she can make a wish by asking the bones of the fish that Yen-Shen fed it every day and was killed by her stepsister. Yen-Shen has a pair of slippers that are made
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