...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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...The obstacle which Cinderella encounters is her stepmother who is determined to keep Cinderella at home doing chores, while her own biological daughters, Anastasia and Drizella, are given all the privileges and opportunities to enjoy life. When the king announces that there will be a grand ball at the palace, dresses are bought for Anastasia and Drizzella. The stepmother wants to show her two daughters off for the ball, but Cinderella is expected to stay home and do chores. While not strictly forbidden to go, the stepmother assumes that Cinderella will stay home because she has work to do and nothing appropriate to wear. With the help of her fairy godmother and magic, Cinderella is overcomes the obstacle of not being able to attend the ball. The fairy godmother equips Cinderella with a magical carriage made from a pumpkin, footmen created from mice, a fancy dress and glass slippers. The godmother warns Cinderella that the finery will disappear at the stroke of midnight. Because of the magic, Cinderella attends the ball where the Prince dances with her and falls madly in love with the beautiful girl in the glass slipper. At the stroke of midnight, Cinderella flees from the Prince's embrace, accidentally dropped her glass slipper. Distraught at losing the love of his live, the Prince sends an note throughout the kingdom, looking for the owner of the glass slipper. Every young woman in the area is asked to try on the slipper. When the note arrives at Cinderella's house...
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...was kind and sweet with a gentle nature. But her two stepsisters had their mother’s (wicked stepmother) mannerisms and bad temper. In-turn, the kind young woman (Cinderella) got her kind and gentle nature from her mother, the first wife of the worthy man. The second wife showed her true colors shortly after getting married to the worthy man. The stepmother’s bad temper and wicked ways came out into the open. Cinderella was given very hard tasks around the house to do. After the chores, Cinderella was to sit among the cinders around by the fireplace chimney, from this she was to be known as Cinder-clod. Cinderella also had to sleep on a wretched mattress in a garret on the top of the house. Even though Cinderella was a pretty girl, her wretched clothes still did not prevented her from being hundreds of times more beautiful than her stepsisters. Plus her stepsisters had resplendent garments. In this classic story, I had originally forgotten it to the point that all I reread in the packet was mostly new to me. But after being familiarized with it, this wonderful story stored in memory came back in full force. When the king’s son (the prince) gave a ball, he invited all the higher up people. The two mean stepsisters of Cinderella were invited, but not her. What I found mean and reprehensible was the fact that Cinderella had went over the two meanies linen and ironed out their ruffles so they could talk of nothing else but their glorious fashion and clothes. I dislike reading about...
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...Cinderella & Sleeping Beauty Once upon a time, most young girls grew up watching Disney’s classic princess films. Most of these films ended with the princesses marrying the prince and living happily ever after! For example “Cinderella” and “Sleeping Beauty” they are both princess that have evil villains trying to ruin them, but their stories are not the same. For example, they have different struggles, and how they overcome them. They both sing magically, but have different songs. They may be two of the most known princess in the world, but they also have many differences. However, in the end either the glass slipper fits, or true loves kiss wins. Cinderella and Aurora are two of the most beloved Disney princess of all time. How they got to be the most loved princesses is two completely different stories literally! Cinderella is a good-hearted girl, who is a servant in her own home to her cruel step-mother and two step-sisters because her father died at a young age. As Aurora is a kind hearted princess born into royalty. Although she is living with misfortune, as Cinderella, because and evil fairy named Maleficent curses her to die on sixteenth birthday. So Aurora is a more tragic story. However, Cinderella is a more hopeful and optimistic story that one day things will turn around. She dreams of a day that she will no longer be a servant in her own home. Her chance comes true when there is a ball at the castle, where the prince is looking for his future wife. With the...
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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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...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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...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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...themes the film Cinderella (1950) portrays is how the “Dreams come true.” However, when I watched Cinderella (1950) again, my attention was brought to this one scene of Cinderella at the grand ball (51:24-56:00). Disney put out a branched out theme of when the main character’s dreams come to face the reality. The scene starts with Cinderella dancing with her Prince Charming at the ball to a soft music that allows both sense of magic and elegance to step in. This diegetic music played by the orchestra at the ball goes well with Cinderella’s flowy dress as she smoothly slides across the fancy floor. In the music, the heavy bass played by Cello gives a palatial feeling. Also when the couple starts dancing, the spotlight is turned on them, which makes it seem like if Cinderella is dreaming which related to Disney’s theme “Dreams come true.” In the middle of the dance, some diegetic sound is added to the music when the scene switches over to the king and his doorman. In this quick shot, not only they have a quick dialogue but also a breaking noise of the doorman’s magnifying glasses. After dancing at the ball, Cinderella and Prince Charming gracefully dances out to the garden where they are by themselves. During the scene, the diegetic music played by the orchestra slows down as Cinderella starts humming. However, the music doesn’t end but puts an accent by using crescendo in the tune giving the feeling of hope and curiosity in what is going to happen next. As Cinderella sings about...
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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 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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...For centuries, the fairy tale Cinderella, that everyone has come to know and love has been told in many different countries and in a variety of ways. Although each story is different, they all have similar meaning and each one "demonstrates how universal the Cinderella story is, as well as how unique each version is to the particular culture out which it grew" (Tam and Cam, 2012 Pg 194). Little girls all over the world are told some type of Cinderella story and they grow up dreaming that one day they'll be a princess just like the characters in the stories. They will find their prince charming to sweep them off their feet. However, these manipulative stories tend to teach girls that they do not need to be dependent on a man to take care of them. Girls should not grow up with that idea in their head, they should be told from the beginning that through patience and determination anything they set their mind to can happen without the reliance of anyone but themselves. The Cinderella characters are presented as civil and obedient young women. In "The Twelve Months", Marouckla, who was the "Cinderella like character" lost her father and was stuck living with her stepmother and step sister. She had to do all of the chores and wait on them hand and foot. They both treated Marouckla as a nuisance and whatever her stepmother asked, she did. "The stepmother also added her threats to those of Helen, and with vigorous blows they pushed Marouckla outside and shut the door upon her. The...
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...fail to realize is they are teaching their children many of the the same things they are protesting using fairy tales. Nobody ever stops to think about the true meaning behind fairy tales, after all what harm can come from reading a bed time story, but the truth is that many of these stories have subliminal messages. Cinderella, for example, seems like it's just about a hard working girl who perseveres, though suffering, is payed off by her living happily ever after with a prince, right? One could not be more wrong, Cinderella contains messages which teach kids a sense of entitlement, vanity, and to not stand up for ones self. Children are constantly asking their parents for toys, junk food, and money. Parents should just be able tell their children yes or no when they make such requests, but sadly thats not the case. When a parent tells their kid no quite often that kid responds with yelling, screaming, crying, and slamming doors. Kids refuse to take no for an answer because they have learned form stories such as Cinderella that all they should have to do is ask for something, and it will be immediately given to them. Regardless of which version of Cinderella one reads, in every story she asks a magical entity for the clothing and...
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...Cinderella Story Comparisons The Disney version in some aspects is quite different than Perrault’s version, but in some cases it is also very similar. First major different that is obvious is that in the Disney version it is shown that Cinderella loses her mother at an early age which causes her father to remarry to another woman for her upbringing. In the Perrault version, there is no mother mentioned in the story. It is just told that the father “married, for his second wife, the proudest and most haughty woman that was ever seen (Perrault). Another major difference between the two stories beginning of torment for Cinderella. In Disney’s version, the stepmother and the stepsisters begin to show their true nature after the death of Cinderella’s father. The stepmother became cold, cruel, and jealous of the little girl’s charm. However, in Perrault’s version, it is explained that the ugly nature was revealed immediately after Cinderella’s father married his second wife. After the wedding ceremonies were over, “the stepmother began to show herself in her true colors. She could not bear the good qualities of this pretty girl, and the less because they made her own daughters appear the more odious. She employed her in the meanest work of the house” (Perrault). The similarity between the two is that both versions involved Cinderella being a house maid while her stepsisters received the opposite treatment. Also, in Perrault’s story, the father does not die. He is very much there but...
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...Composition 1 10/2/2012 Cinderella: Misunderstood Cinderella is a beloved and idolized character in. In the Grimm brothers story Ashputtle, like most other variants of the story, she is seen as a patient, virtuous, good-natured, obedient young girl who is devastated at the death of her mother, deprived of her father’s love, and ridiculed by her new family, but yet nonetheless is recognized for her inner beauty by the prince. What the Grimm brothers fail to examine in Ashputtle though is the point of view of her stepmother, and the reasoning behind her cruelness toward Cinderella. The role of the stepmother is typified in Ashputtle, as that of callous, cruel, and evil women whose only care is for her two daughters to be married to the prince and eventually become queen. But is Cinderella really so morally superior to her stepmother and stepsisters? In the Rossner text her stepmother reveals her to be filthy, lazy, and disobedient she is described as having a “foul mouth. She would not go to school. She would not dress decently for any occasion” (Rossner 619). She also states that Cinderella would “spend her waking time at home, sitting at the fire, poking at the cinders and getting covered with ash, which she did not mind in the least!” (Rossner 619). Revealing that Cinderella’s plight is of her own doing and her father and stepmother are simply doing their best to deal with her antics. Cinderella is portrayed as a patient and virtuous young girl in Ashputtle, her...
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...Carly Frohlich Ms. McGuire ENG4U1 17 October 2013 Cinderella and Marxism The theme of power is constant throughout the text, and brings to life the dominant social structures Cinderella is faced with and classified under. Cinderella is forced into working like a servant for her stepmother and sisters and is a representation of the proletariat working class. Cinderella is viewed as a simple servant, it is her natural beauty, virtue, and humbleness that make her stand out and help her get her Prince Charming. This story gleams with Marxist subtleties addressing social hierarchy along with the values and morals of those in power over Cinderella. The Prince in the story is demanded by the King to get married, and has a ball to find his bride. For the royal ball Cinderella’s stepsisters adorn only their finest fashions one sister stating "I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming." (Perrault). They went to these lengths so they could represent themselves as wealthy and therefore worthy for the prince. While Cinderella, who has nothing of value is left behind unable to go because of this socioeconomic division. Marxist state that one simply cannot jump ranks of class, and Cinderella has an internal realization of this knowing that it would be a fruitless endeavor. Cinderella, powerless on her own, is only able to go to the ball because of the help she receives from her fairy godmother. She is given a horse drawn carriage along with willing coachmen...
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...Literature has the ability to be viewed and evaluated under multiple lenses, yet still depict various critical themes. In the narrative, Cinderella by Charles Perrault, the Neo-Marxist theory is the principle that governs the entire theme of the story. The Neo-Marxist theory is centred on the power of relationships, which is a familiarized element in Cinderella’s life. Immediately Cinderella is portrayed to be passive, submissive, and obedient to the commands of her step family due to the power and wealth they maintain over Cinderella, “She slept in a sorry garret, on a wretched straw bed, while her sisters slept in fine room..” (Perrault). It is evident that the treatment of individuals in this story is strictly based on the Social status they possess in society. Unfortunately Cinderella was not privileged enough to uphold any status of worth and knew trying to prove herself otherwise was useless due to the control her stepmother held over her father’s judgement , “The poor girl bore it all patiently, and dared not tell her father, who would have scolded her; for his wife governed him entirely” (Perrault). Throughout the entire story Cinderella becomes subservient to her unjust orders without a complaint, and is perpetually treated unreasonably until she is noticed by someone who holds much more power than anyone in the story, the prince. Once Cinderella is desired by the prince she is instantaneously valued, “They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all the ill treatment”...
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