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    not because she was more patient than her stepsisters and stepmother‚ but because she was wittier and utilized the magical powers offered to her‚ namely an enchanted dress. In "A Feminist’s View of ’Cinderella’‚" Madonna Kolbenschlag says that Cinderella tolerates condescension from the people around her in hope that she will one day be rewarded. She does menial labor and dresses in rags all while being told she is worthless by her stepmother. Ever After is a movie based on the same premise as many

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    Denise Bates Engl 1020-103 March 3‚ 2015 Writing Assignment #2 Comparison and Contrast: Cinderella Everyone has heard of the Cinderella story Walt Disney version but not the Anne Sexton’s version. If I had to choose between the two to read to children ill pick the Walt Disney version. These two version similar and differ in their own ways. Both versions have their own plots of the Cinderella story. The characters in both versions are the same but have different character development. Cinderella

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    killed her father and stepmother for financial gain and because she harbored a well-hidden hatred for the woman chosen to replace a mother she never knew. For over one hundred years‚ people have speculated as to her guilt or innocence. There have been arguments on both sides of the fence‚ some citing the fact that Lizzie—which was her christened name‚ not Elizabeth—never cried or showed any emotion over the death of her father‚ whom she supposedly looked up to‚ and her stepmother. Others have pointed

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    Have you ever wanted revenge on your parents? Lizzie Borden was accused of the murder of her father and stepmother at the age of 31. I deem Lizzie guilty of the murder of her stepmother. Also‚ I think Bridget Sullivan‚ their servant was responsible for the murder of Abby Borden. According to source #3‚ Lizzie tried buying poison just days before the murders of her father and stepmother. She claimed the reason for the poison was to clean a sealskin cape. Plus she burned a dress the day after being

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    Everyone has reasons for their action‚ something to drive them forward to certain goals and choices‚ Gisela is no different. Gisela’s drive is leaving her cynical stepmother and finding someone who will love her for who she is‚ she‚ "want[s] to marry someone kind... someone who believes in goodness and mercy and love" (12). After being orphaned and treated completely worthless by her sole guardian‚ she if full of strange

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    her mother’s death made Parker take a new outlook on life. However‚ the relationship with Parkers stepmother and father was marked by hatred and fear. Dorothy’s father was very hypocritical of the actions Dorothy made and was a very self opinionated man (Spartacus 1). Parker’s stepmother was crazy and treated Dorothy worse than her own children (Parker 3). While being raised by her stepmother and father Dorothy came to realize this was not the life she wanted or the people she wanted to spend

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    worst enemy because he picks my stepmother over me.  He lets his wife dominate him like a toy.  For example‚ one day I was supposed to go to their house to sleep over.  I was ready to go when I get a call from my father.  He said "Sorry but I can’t pick you up because my wife is in the hospital."  I hope she feels better‚ that’s what I said.  Then a short while later my mom calls me and says that my father was lying.  My stepmother wasn’t in the hospital.  My stepmother just didn’t want me to come. 

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    not tried it on. Cinderella’s stepmother knew that it was Cinderella who danced with the prince‚ but they did not want Cinderella to marry the prince because the stepmother was after the prince’s fortune. This says that many people in the world interferes with others love lives for their own selfish reasons. If Cinderella never tried on that glass slipper when her stepmother told her to‚ she would have never found her happiness‚ and that was what the stepmother wanted because she always thought

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    poem is reading from a post fairytale Cinderella’s diary. The fairytale has ended and the boredom of real life has set in‚ thus there is a heavily jaded tone throughout. Cinderella has actually written “I miss my stepmother” in her hypothetical diary; everyone remembers the evil stepmother (1). The overly happy and cheerful things that were so pleasant in the Disney original are now mind numbingly unbearable; “Those insufferable birds” (13). The poem is filled with irony. What should be happily ever

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    Oochigeaskw is 100 or more years old‚ and Aschenputtle is at least 120 years old. Each story has a Cinderella character‚ again‚ Germany has Aschenputtle‚ China has Yeh-Shen‚ and Native America has Oochigeaskw. Cinderella is always treated poorly by the stepmother‚ stepsisters‚ or sisters. All the stories have magic‚ Aschenputtle had magical doves and pigeons‚ Yeh-Shen had magic fish

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