Cinderella Research Paper

Cinderella’s relationship with her dad is very distant after he gets married to the evil stepmother. Therefore, Cinderella is a very neglected daughter that is constantly abused mentally and physically, by the stepmother and stepsister, because of the housework and tasks she had to complete. Consequently, right after Cinderella was done with her beginning tasks the stepsisters would give her an even harder task. This showed the stepsisters had no sympathy for cinderella's well being and it also showed how wicked the stepsisters were. In spite of all the problems Cinderella had with her stepsisters and stepmother his dad decided to travel to the fair and when he was about to leave Cinderella's dad asked her stepsisters and her if they liked

Bursting with a familiar storyline, messages about love, and incredible dancing, Cinderella is the musical theatre dance that the entire family must-see. Cinderella ballet dance is a fantastic twist on the movie that everyone has grown to love. Cinderella is set in a faraway kingdom during the time Cinderella attends a ball where she dances with the handsome prince but due to some unfortunate events she has to leave the dance in a hurry and in the commotion, she loses one of her ballet shoes at the ball. The prince, who has fallen in love with Cinderella, will stop at nothing to find the girl who had lost the ballet shoe. So, he dances with all the young ladies in the village but cannot find the girl. Eventually, he finds a washer girl that

A childhood myth that I realized shaped my expectations in life is the happily ever after princess stories. In every princess story the girl always end up with a prince. At first they go through trials and tribulation but the princess overcome everything and also find her true love. When I was a little girl I wanted to be a princess and live happily ever after. Even now, when I watch romance movies I always want the girl or the guy to find their true love and have a happy ending. Finding true love and happily ever after has shaped my expectations in finding the right person to be with. I’m not going to settle for a guy that disrespect me or tries to buy my love, but being with someone that loves me for me and that I can’t live without.

We all know the traditional Cinderella story, right? The one where the beautiful girl who contrast has an evil stepmother and stepsisters, until one day her fairy godmother comes and makes all that go away, when she meets her prince charming at a ball one night. What most people do not know is that there are several different versions of “Cinderella” with the same idea of the “Cinderella” that we know, but some differences as well. The German version of “Cinderella” her fairy godmother figure was as simple as a bird. However in the Zimbabwe version of “Cinderella” Nyoka replace the traditional fairy godmother and can transform into anything.

In Haiti, there is a single mother of two named Jocelyn. On the weekdays, she wakes up at six in the morning to fill two empty buckets with water. Through a rugged path, she carries the full buckets, one in her hand, and the other on her head. When Jocelyn returns home she wakes up her children. Then, she grabs one of the buckets and runs them a bath. After the children put on their uniforms, Jocelyn hands them a mango to eat for breakfast. When they’re finished eating, she walks the children to school and paces to the apparel factory to work. This narrative may not impress some individuals. However, I believe Jocelyn is the definition of success. She defines success because she is able to provide for her children. Although she is not financially

“Cinderella” originally written by Giambattista Basile, in 1634, is portrayed differently in various cultures and countries. There are many differences and similarities between the cultural adaptations including the help and guidance from characters in the story. Another literary element of the fairy tale that is presented individually is how magic is portrayed throughout the story. The last major element of the story is how the prince finds out who Cinderella really is. The cultural adaptations range with the setting, the portrayal of the fairy godmother/other advising animals and Cinderella’s relationship development with her stepmother, father and stepsisters.

I chose to do romantic love for my myth analysis. The components to a romantic love are like a fairy tale. Women are waiting to find their knight and shiny armor. Men and women expect to have the perfect marriage and live happily ever after. In romantic myths couples are seen as perfect with no issues at all. Romantic love is shown in movies, songs, and novels. Romantic love never shows the actuality of realistic relationships. Realistically people get divorced more than marriage.

Despite many adaptions of the tale, Cinderella remains one of the most cherished fictional characters among the huge array of Western adopted fairy-tales, in fact "no other tale has so may early, independent, and widely scattered versions"i. Starting as an orally told story, passed down in its many incarnations before it was first recorded in written form by Perrault, Cinderella proves its place within society year after year. Moreover, the universality of this tale is evident as even within ninth-century Chinese folk law, the Cinderella motif is evident.

Cinderella is really jealous because of her stepsister is more beautiful then her. The beautiful sister always had to do all the work at home, for example, she cleaned, she makes Cinderella’s breakfast, she has to wake up at 6am e.t.c. One morning the stepsister heard someone knock on the door, “knock, knock”. The step sister went to the door and it was….. “A castel envelope!” She gasped. She ran upstairs and gave the envelope to Cinderella. But there is something wrong with Cinderella, she looks mad. She is mad because when the step sisters went to give the envelope to Cinderella she didn’t knock on the door. When Cinderella open the envelope she gasped because she was going to a party in the castle. The step sister thought that she was

Cinderella is a very common story that the French and German have closely related ways in which things happen. Such as how they marry the prince, or how they get the dress or jewelry.

That night, her stepmother called her near the fireplace while her sisters were sleeping. She said, “Ella my dear, you shall not go to the ball, there is danger there that's awaits your arrival.”

One of these stories is Cinderella, with a classic story that is loved and known by many people. Cinderella is about a girl whose mother dies, leaving Cinderella and her father. The father marries another woman, who has two daughters of her own from a previous marriage, and eventually the father dies as well. The stepmother and her daughters treat Cinderella terribly and make her do all of the chores in the house. An opportunity arises where she can go to a ball the prince is having, but she isn’t allowed to go because of the stepmother. She is very upset about this, but something magical happens, and she gets a beautiful outfit to wear, and goes to the ball unrecognized, because she looks so beautiful.. She meets the prince and falls in love, but has to leave at midnight, at which time she loses her shoe. The prince finds her shoe and goes out searching for her, and he ends up finding and marrying her. Although this is the basic plot to a European version of Cinderella, if we look at another version of the tale, the Chinese version of the “Tale of Yeh-Shen,” we can see similarity but with a number of differences.

Myths and fairy tales have a way of sending an audience into a whole new world. Things are happening that would seem crazy in real life. This new world is often something everyone wishes they could be apart of. It triggers the creative side of the brain, and allows people to use their imagination. Cinderella is one of the many fairy tales that allows people to be apart of a different world.

Through a historical analysis, we see that many aspects of the story are representative of the time. The story is set in Germany in the 1800s. To start, the story begins with the death of Cinderella’s birth mom who “became sick . . . and died” (Grimm). This is because death was quite common “in the mid-1800s [and] life expectancies were only in the high thirties or early forties” (Huber). Soon after the father “took himself another wife” (Grimm). This is because in the 1800s “second wives were quite common,” (P. Smith 107) as the main role of the man was to marry to produce a male heir. Since the father only had Cinderella, a daughter, it was his role to remarry and have a male to inherit his land and belongings. Remarrying was also a norm of the time for child rearing. While the role of the man was to produce an heir, the role of the woman was to take care of the children. Taking care of the children was “typically in the hands of the mother” (Eidson). The stepmother’s role would have been to watch over the children as the husband was gone. This occurs several times throughout the story as the stepmother watches over Cinderella as the husband goes “to the fair . . . and festivals” (Grimm). Women would remarry because they were “limited in resources” (P. Smith 107) without a man, so it is not unusual the stepmother remarried as well. By remarrying, the stepmother is provided for by the husband. The husband provides a home for the girls and buys “dresses,

In “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja makes a claim that the Grimms’ version of “Cinderella” provides reasons that Cinderella may not have been so fortunate due to her being “good and pious.” One main point that she discusses within the article is the mother/daughter relationship Cinderella shares with her deceased mother, in comparison to the mother/daughter relationship shared between the stepmother and stepsisters. Panttaja argues that the mothers in each relationship are both motivated by the same thing, “to ensure a future of power and prestige for their daughter” (Panttaja). Panttaja continues to identify how both mothers’ motives are similar, but her argument falters when she attempts to bring Cinderella’s