Cultural Versions Of Cinderella

In the essay, “The Rise of Perrault’s Cinderella”, by Bonnie Cullen, and the “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”, by Elisabeth Panttaja both Illustrates similar ideas of the Cinderella fairy tale. In “The Rise of Perrault’s Cinderella”, Cullen touches base of the many different Cinderella themes throughout different countries. Panttaja alternatively addresses the backstory of the Cinderella theme in “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”. Although Cullen and Panttaja have similarities between their two essays, they also have some differences. While both authors address the contrasting Cinderella themes, Cullen focuses more on the contrasted themes of different narratives from different countries, while Panttaja focuses on the mother’s

"Cinderella" is perhaps the most recognized fairy tale in history, one of the few that spans across generations and cultures. Every prominent culture in the world tells some similar version of this story of a poor girl going from rags to riches; over 700 versions have been accounted for worldwide. In America, numerous authors have penned their own version of the classic folktale. One of these is Tanith Lee, a prolific writer of stories for young adults. Lee cleverly found a way to include all of the traditional elements of the classic "Cinderella" tale, but added a new twist: Cinderella, or the character similar to her in this story, had malicious intentions for the prince, and her purpose throughout the tale was a malevolent one: revenge.

The Grimm Brothers version of Cinderella is a written down oral story that people passed down from generation to generation, meant to teach a lesson about piety and good behavior. Before the Grimm Brothers ever wrote it down, the story had been told several times by memory. It is thus not surprising that the descriptions of certain events in the story, such as the way Cinderella went to the Ball, are lacking in details. It is obvious that these parts of the story are unimportant to the overall message of the story. Instead, it focuses on the piety of Cinderella and the wickedness of the step-sisters. Through the events of the story, it becomes obvious that the goodness of Cinderella is justly rewarded, and that

Cinderella is perhaps one of the most famous childhood fairy tale stories of all time. Over the years, numerous versions of the story have been recreated and have been told to children all over the world. The original story of Cinderella follows the life of a young girl who is mistreated by her step mother and stepsisters. With the help of her fairy godmother, Cinderella is transformed into a beautiful princess and goes to the ball to meet her prince. However, she has to leave the ball at midnight as the magic wears off and she turns back into her former self. She leaves behind a glass slipper that the prince uses to find her and they both live happily ever after. The

There is proof of this in almost all Cinderella versions, even in stories originating from Scotland or Portugal. Even in the Native American version, which encourages honesty, there are still traces of prejudice in favor of beauty and rank. "She was very beautiful and gentle… they were jealous...so they treated her very cruelly. They clothed her in rags... and they cut off her long black hair; and they burned her face with coals from the fire.", showing that the Native Americans still cared about beauty and the archetype of rags symbolizing ugliness because they are worn by the poor. In another variation, "Katie Woodencloak", a princess runs away from her abusive stepmother and travels to another kingdom atop a bull. She is dressed in a wooden

Cinderella was being good and pious, but Cinderella was not “The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept” (Grimms 80). Later, her father bring another wife at home, the new wife had two daughters, and they hate Cinderella. It was beginning to Cinderella’s crossing the first threshold. “Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us? said they; those who eat food must earn it. She is nothing but a kitchen-maid!” (Grimms 80). They were taken Cinderella’s dress and made a kitchen-maid. She got hard works early in the morning through late night, but she did not complained her stepmother. Every night she went to her mother’s grave, and cried. The each day withe wish birds came to grave, watching her and listen her whatever she

Cinderella also complies with aesthetic sense. When Cinderella is seen as a servant, she appears as a poor, dirty, servant that is weak. When Cinderella arrives at the ball, she looks as if she comes from money and is very attractive, catching the prince's eye. Since Cinderella was only known as a servant, her step-mother and step-sisters did not think she could have been the women at the ball, since she was not allowed to go and she was viewed as a poor servant. Furthermore, her appearance of being a poor servant would conflict with the prince's image of royalty and wealth, making them incompatible from a social stand point.

    The main problem with this is Cinderella in this case is running obstacles to please everyone while she continues to get treated miserably. She is entitled to the money that was left behind and she is constantly being lied to. Her stepmother and sisters lie to her because they enjoy taking advantage of her and stealing her college money while they make her complete the dirty work.

The different features of ‘Cinderella’ is she’s a fully human rather than a cyborg. Cinderella has a fairy Godmother, both of her parents die of a sickness. While Cinders real name is actually Cinder,

The tale of Cinderella has been heard and read for many generations. The idea of rags to riches has appealed to countless readers through varying accounts. The plot of Cinderella has become a traditional theme. Through different cultures and eras the theme has seen many copies, remakes, twists and views in literature, theater and film. Today’s era of blended families and conflicts in class statuses may be why Cinderella has been a classic. One of those twists is seen in the film Ella Enchanted. Ella Enchanted is not the same story, Cinderella redone, but has similar theme with varying differences.

Along with the concept of Cinderella, the movie Cinderfella establishes this theme in a little different way that changes the dynamic of what makes up a Cinderella movie. Most of the gender roles are reversed and a guy named Fella is left with his stepmom and two wicked stepbrothers, Maximillian and Rubert. To gain more money, the stepmother throws a ball to honor a Princess, so she can marry one of her sons. During the movie, the stepmother wants to know where her deceased husband hid the money for Fella and Maximillian proposed the

Throughout the story of Cinderella, the main problem that the story is based off of is how Cinderella was the under the control of her evil and jealous stepmother and sisters would suffer, while on the other hand, when she was with her father before the stepmother, and the prince later on in the story, Cinderella is happy. This interpretation can be examined as a way to poke fun on the idea of a matriarchal society, and how its better to move towards a patriarchal society. In the scene in the beginning part of movie where they start to introduce the characters as they currently are in the story, there is obvious signs of mistreatment of Cinderella. Unlike the other two girls, her step sisters, who were wearing fancy, expensive but guantly looking

In Charles Perrault’s version of “Cinderella”, there was a man who had another wife and a young daughter who married a woman who became his second wife. She had a former husband and 2 daughters of her own. Almost immediately, the stepmother turned evil and she made Cinderella do all of the work in the house while her own daughters sat around and were pampered by Cinderella all day. One day, they received a letter saying that the King’s son had a ball and invited all persons of fashion to it. Cinderella’s sisters made fun of her. The eldest daughter called her Cinderwench and the youngest called her Cinderella. Each sister wanted to be the most beautiful. Cinderella took care of her sisters and once they left, she was devastated and started crying when her fairy godmother saw how upset Cinderella was and told her to follow these rules. The first step was to go into the garden and get a pumpkin and return it to her godmother who scooped the inside of the pumpkin out and left the rind. With the fairy godmother’s magic, the pumpkin turned into a fine coach. Cinderella was then directed to go into the mouse trap where she found six mice and the mice turned into horses, rat into a coachman, lizards into footmen, and Cinderlla’s clothes would be completely

The cinderella story portrays a strong young girl whose life changes drastically throughout the story. Due to an impactful event like the death of her mother and the arrival of her step mother, and sisters. Cinderella's father was never present in her life. She grew up under the rules of her evil step mother, Lady Tremaine. Drizella and Anastasia were Cinderella's new and wicked sisters who with the help of their mother, were able to turn Cinderella into a servant. There came a time when the Kings son held a ball in search for a beautiful bride. Cinderella and her "family" were invited. Cinderella was so excited. She ran to the attic and found one of her mothers dresses; her step mother rudely interrupted her, being as evil as the devil, Lady

She gave her so much work that it would be nearly impossible for cinderella to attend the ball. Cinderella knew if she even wanted a chance at going to the ball that she would have to get to work. While Cinderella did her chores my mother, sister, and I started to get ready for the ball we did everything from hair to makeup and mother walked into my room with a beautiful Emerald velvet gown with shimmery crystals lining the bottom. When I tried it on it looked almost as Whimsical as the clouds. as time went by we were astonished to hear Cinderella working in the sewing room. we walked over to the room only to see the sight of Cinderella and a beautiful gown it was once her mother's. my mother said “ you cannot go to the ball the chores can not possibly be done”