...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 in what seems to be the most impossible of situations. It all began with Cinderella suffering the death of her mother, who was quickly replace by an evil stepmother and her two daughters. They tell her cruel things and force her to do the household cleaning as “He who wants to eat bread must earn it; out with the kitchen-wench.” With that one sentence they have explicitly made it clear they feel she is beneath them and if she wants to eat she will earn her keep and meals. They take all of her possessions and give her, mock her, and even taunt her. She is forced to work in kitchen from the morning to nighttime, force her to sleep in the ashes by the fireplace. She has been reduced to nothing. She has nothing and is made to feel as though she is nothing, even to her father. The ways I can relate to her aren’t the exact same circumstances, but similar nonetheless. At one point I was in a relationship that was very abusive. I was to do all the cooking, all the cleaning, and under no circumstance...
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...Little Glass Slipper” and “Cinderella- Brothers Grimm” are two stories about a girl who meets a prince at the ball. The main plot of the story is very similar but they do have their twists. Both stories have a girl with evil stepsisters, they both go to an event where they meet the prince, and each story has trouble finding the real Cinderella. But they also have several differences, “The Little Glass Slipper” had a godmother to grant her wishes and “Cinderella-Brother’s Grimm” had a tree on her mom’s grave that granted her wishes. Both “Cinderella- Brothers Grimm” and “The Little Glass Slipper” have many similarities and differences in the setting, characters, and plot. In “The Little Glass Slipper” it says, “It happened that the king's son...
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...An Analysis of Gender Roles in Disney Princess Films Jasmit Singh 213749361 Traditional and Popular Culture – 1900 9.0 Susan Niazi – Tutorial 6 Whether it’s the colours they wear, the activities they engage in or how they behave, men and women are known to play different roles in society. These established gender roles “are not innate or natural but a product of society”. Children, adolescents and adults all learn gender roles through the environment they’re surrendered by. One of the many huge influencers that help shape gender roles is media. Although “there has been a lot of change over the years in terms of what is considered appropriate societal roles for men and women, this change is not reflected in contemporary film”. The ideology of mainstream media continues to focus on the males being the heads of society, which in result, shows an unequal representation of the females. From an early age, media puts an image into young minds, informing them how males and females should think, act, behave and appear. In many television shows and films, one can easily see the distinct difference between the role of a male and a female. Often films are enforcing stereotypical gender roles where the male is seen to holds more importance in society than the female. Amongst many film producing companies, Walt Disney Pictures for decades have been enforcing stereotypical gender roles in their princess films. Though it may not be outright obvious, Disney productions play a huge role...
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...Cinderella Stories Lesson Plan Sherryl Green Grand Canyon University: RDG:585 October 8, 2012 Lesson Plan Cinderella Stories ABSTRACT In this study of Cinderella Stories, second grade students will use charts and diagrams to discover the similarities and differences among stories. Students will develop writing skills using descriptive language and details. They will strengthen their comprehension skills through the use of magical Cinderella tales from different lands and apply map skills in learning which country each story comes from. These magical tales will help students to develop awareness that different Cinderella tales have much in common. Materials Class comparison Chart Graphic Organizers: Venn Diagram Sequencing Chart Compare and Contrast T-Chart My Favorite Part Handout Book Mark Template World Map Map pins Book collection The Rough-Faced Girl by Rafe Martin A Golden Slipper” A Vietnamese Legend by Darrell H.Y. Yum Chinye: A West African Folk Tale by Obi Onyefulu Yeh-Shen: A Cinderella Story from China by Ai-Ling Louie The Egyptian Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Irish Cinderella by Shirley Climo The Way Meat Loves Salt:A Cinderella Tale from the Jewish Tradition adapted by Jewell Reinhart Coburn The Golden Saddle: A Middle Eastern Cinderella by Rebecca Hickox Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe The Irish Cinderlad by Shirley Climo Lesson 1 Key Vocabulary Country — a small part of a continent...
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...Engineer Patricia Galloway believes that serving as the first woman president of the 151-year-old American Society of Civil Engineers — a historically male bastion if there ever was one — makes her a role model to women in the industry. It's high times for women leading construction-related engineering groups, with three others currently in high office. The same goes for construction organizations. Nova Group's Carole L Bionda is chairelect of Associated Builders and Contractors. Meanwhile, the US House Education and Workforce Committee last month passed the Family Time Flexibility Act (H.R. 1119) which could undermine workers' most basic rights by altering the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which currently requires employers to pay overtime to certain employees when they are required to work beyond the normal 40 hour work week.( Peterson 98) At home, we're aware (perhaps painfully so) that men and women often have different communication styles. But it's easy to forget that such differences can show up at work, too. To do an effective job of communicating, keep in mind gender-related communication styles. Young boys are socialized to give an immediate answer or solution to a problem. Young girls want answers, too, but tend to talk things over to solve problems. So while a man might prefer to work things out for himself, a woman is more likely to want to discuss them. According to researcher Deborah Tanhen, author of Talking from 9 to 5, when a woman starts to discuss an...
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...Bob Bobson M. Newell English 102 January 24, 2001 The Slipper of Discord: An Analysis of the Symbolic Meaning of the Glass Slipper in Cinderella In Cinderella, by having the glass slipper the means through which the Prince choses his bride, a slipper symbolically associated exclusively with a particular conception of beauty, Disney encourages women to submit to the painful and confining beauty ideal to permit the continuation of male empowerment. To begin the slipper’s inherent beauty stems from its conceptual design with its elegant arch, delicate heel as well as the material used to create it, clear glass befitting a rare, crystal vase. Moreover, its clearness permits Cinderella to expose her similarly delicate and dainty foot, a quality long associated with beauty especially in Oriental cultures. Created out of glass, the slipper stands as a signifier for the ambivalent notion of beauty proposed by a masculinist culture - epitomized by the phallic towers of the castle - at the heart of the tale, a culture that permits the Prince to select his bride based solely on beauty. Therefore, more specifically, the slipper, in a sense, represents the pain associated with beauty. Encased in the fragile glass and perched upon a thin spiked heel, Cinderella’s foot suffers pain. Moreover, should this fragile glass crack, the splinters would sever her tender flesh exposed for all its beauty by the transparent glass....
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...Women in our society Engineer Patricia Galloway believes that serving as the first woman president of the 151-year-old American Society of Civil Engineers - a historically male bastion if there ever was one - makes her a role model to women in the industry. It's high times for women leading construction-related engineering groups, with three others currently in high office. The same goes for construction organizations. Nova Group's Carole L Bionda is chairelect of Associated Builders and Contractors. Meanwhile, the US House Education and Workforce Committee last month passed the Family Time Flexibility Act (H.R. 1119) which could undermine workers' most basic rights by altering the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which currently requires employers to pay overtime to certain employees when they are required to work beyond the normal 40 hour work week.( Peterson 98) At home, we're aware (perhaps painfully so) that men and women often have different communication styles. But it's easy to forget that such differences can show up at work, too. To do an effective job of communicating, keep in mind gender-related communication styles. Young boys are socialized to give an immediate answer or solution to a problem. Young girls want answers, too, but tend to talk things over to solve problems. So while a man might prefer to work things out for himself, a woman is more likely to want to discuss them. According to researcher Deborah Tanhen, author of Talking from 9 to...
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...Ever After – Still the Same Old Cinderella Story In the movie, Ever After (1998), director and co-screenwriter Andy Tennant attempts to put a spin on the fairy tale we all knew growing up, Cinderella, by trying to empower the heroine and updating the film to appeal to a modern audience. Tennant explains, "I wanted to tell a very different version of Cinderella because I have two daughters, I did not want them growing up believing you have to marry a rich guy with a big house in order to live happily ever after" (Friedmeyer, p. 4). Did he accomplish? On the surface it would seem that Ever After is a modern feminist film, empowering women, but under the disguise, it still has the underlying traditional gender roles and stereotypes that Tennant tries to discourage and remove. In both Disney’s Cinderella and in Tennant’s Ever After, the male sex is ranked higher than females and has real power and social status. Kelley (2003) explains, “Males are seen as rescuers; females are more passive" (p. 651). The King and his son Prince Henry are the two highest ranking males in the film and they are shown to have ultimate power; the power over life and death. After Danielle hits Henry with apples, making him fall off the horse she thought he was stealing, she feared for her life because she assaulted royalty and the heir to the kingdom. In the same scene, in an attempt to quiet Danielle as to not cause a ruckus which may alert the royal guards, Prince Henry drops coins to the...
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...Encouraging children to believe in a fantasy that is unobtainable is what Disney has successfully done with the help of their fairytale movies. Altering the gruesomeness of blood soaked feet and empty eye sockets of Grimm, into a lighter hearted humorous version of Cinderella has changed the moral and what we are trying to teach our children. If Disney’s movies were made identical to Grimm’s versions would they still be as magical, would the movies still be geared for a younger audience? Has Disney taken away the true hardships and meaning of the classic fairytale by censoring the stories to fit their ideal mold? Children who have grown up with Disney have been given entertainment first and to believe in a fantasy world and where morals are no longer the focus. Children want to believe in characters and certain setting and events that occur and Tolkien makes a good claim at that by saying, “children are capable, of course, of literary belief, when the story-maker's art is good enough to produce it.” The story of Cinderella is a tale of a girl that goes through abuse and is made to be a servant in her own home and given a new name in mockery of her suffering. Grimm made Cinderella’s mother present and an important factor in her personality by saying "Dear child, be good and pious, and then the good God will always protect thee, and I will look down on thee from heaven and be near thee." That line in itself shows the way society thought at that time and the type of message...
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...shows, and books are always coming up with new strategies to help parents cope with children’s expectations for life and other material goods. “The House on Mango Street” by Sandra Cisneros and “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton both show how kids grow up expecting perfect situations in life like fairytales; the main difference is that Cisneros’ story shows a young person waiting for the parents to provide her with happiness whereas in Sexton’s piece the young girl shows initiative to make her dreams a reality. In “The House on Mango Street,” by Sandra Cisneros, a child details her living situation with her parents. She talks about how they lived in apartments and moved around before finally moving to a house. The house the family finally moves to does not meet her expectations that were created by her parents. Although the house is “a real house that would be ours for always so we wouldn’t have to move each year” (Cisneros 392) it has lots of problems and things seem to break a lot. At one point her teacher passes by the house where she sees the girl playing and reacts in a way that makes her embarrassed of her home. The story ends with her expressing a desire to move to “A real house. One I could point to.” (Cisneros 392) but her parents just say this is how it is for now. “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton starts by giving examples of...
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...English 101 Mrs.Sonnier October 30, 2015 Happily Never After When most people hear about the story of Cinderella, the first thing that pops into their head is the animated movie Disney had created. They think about the poor servant girl who was dressed in nothing but rags who cleaned the entire house and was mocked by her cruel step sisters and step mother. As the story continues, Cinderella then receives help from her fairy god mother and ends up at the ball where she meets her prince. The animated Disney version had become a big hit towards younger children because of the moral lessons they receive at the end of the movie. When kids think about Cinderella all they believe and see are the good things that can happen to them. They see the little mice and the happy ending where Cinderella marries the prince and they live happily ever after. This story was originally created by a man called Charles Perrault. Little do they know that there are multiple stories about Cinderella, some even containing violent and aggressive behaviors unsuitable for a child to hear. For example another version of Cinderella was made by Jacob and Wilhelm Grim which told the tale the same exact way as Charles Perrault, the only difference was that the step sister’s eyes were plucked out by birds at the end of the story for treating Cinderella badly in the beginning. Also, before Cinderella was revealed the step sisters were so desperate to be with the prince that they ended up chopping their own...
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...Many people have heard the famous story of Pocahontas, but they still don’t know the true facts about her life. Pocahontas was estimated to be born around 1595 in the current state of Virginia as the Powhatan chief's daughter. It was early in her life that North American exploration began and settlers began to come to this ‘New World’ to settle colonies for their home countries. Instead of fighting the colonists, Pocahontas helped the Europeans settle and grow on the land and, thanks to her, they made a lot of profit. Many years later in 1995, Disney published the film Pocahontas; a exciting family movie about her life and her help to British colonists. The question of debate is: Did Disney accurately portray the story of Pocahontas? There is evidence saying that Disney did not tell the real story because they changed her name, made her several years older, and altered the relationship between her and John Smith. First of all, Pocahontas was not her real name, it was just a nickname. Disney thought that they should use this name since it was well known, however, “"Pocahontas" was a nickname, meaning "the naughty one" or "spoiled child". Her real name was Matoaka” (Doc B). Even though they could have used her name they chose Pocahontas instead. They most likely chose to do this because it was a name that she was well known by and was easier to say. Despite the reason, this is the first point that Disney did not accurately represent. By choosing this as her name, it is giving...
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...“The Princess Paradox” Summary In his article “The Princess Paradox,” James Poniewozik, a writer who focuses on feminine topics, discusses his information about Cinderella, which he expresses her as practical and dressy. (323). Generally, Poniewozik explains how Cinderella has influenced society through movies, young girls, and has created a desire for the fairy tale romance. Poniewozik begins explaining about parents and their daughter regarding Halloween (323). Even though a young girl without the traditional Barbie dolls, that is more “tomboy,” may even want to dress up as a princess to celebrate the fall holiday (323). Poniewozik claims young girls desire to be princesses due to the Cinderella themed movies today. Then later on in his...
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...I ran for my life. I didn’t grab no shoes or nothing Jesus. Cinderella is a fictional Disney Pixar character. She appears in many movies other than “Cinderella.” The movie “Ever After” is better than the Grimm’s tale “Cinderella.” In choosing either “Ever After” or “Cinderella,” I’d choose “Ever After.” For example, the evil step sisters did not get their body parts cut off in the movie. It’s an extremely .unpleasant thing to read. It could seriously scare a small child. Also including, one of the step sisters, in the movie, was willing to stand up for her. It is very important to stand up and be kind, even if you are standing alone. This teaches children a valuable life lesson. So, if you are looking for an appropriate movie...
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...Politically Correct Cinderella We all know the story about Cinderella who starts out by being simple farm girl. And of course we also know the evil stepmother and stepsisters, and the fairy good mother. We also know about the ending where Cinderella gets the beautiful prince and they lived happily ever after. There is also another version of the story. Politically Correct Cinderella is the funnier and modern parody of the Traditional Cinderella story. Politically Correct Cinderella written by James Finn Garner in 1981. In this essay I’m going to analyze the Politically Correct Cinderella story, and then compare it to the traditional Cinderella story, and finally end it by relating to the concept of “political correctness”. The Politically Correct Cinderella has the main plot as the traditional Cinderella Story. It’s about Cinderella whose birthmother had died when Cinderella was just a child, and then her father married the evil stepmother, with the evil stepsisters. But this story is written in a different way. An example could be the language: when he writes woman he write it like this: “wommon or womyn” – in this case I believe it is to keep it more correctly. It is also to see it from a feminist point of view, which change the way we perceive the story. The fairy good person is a man here, which makes it a lot weirder for us, because the fairy good mother was one of the central characters in the story we became familiar with. Just as we are used to the fairy good person...
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