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This is a battle not of beauty, but of material. The prince does not recognize the face of Cinderella, only the gown she is wearing, making this fight for marriage one based on the clothing on the girls’ backs (288). While Cinderella comes home from the ball, her mother is hard at work making sure she is not seen for who she really is. Panttaja claims, “...it is quite possible that we are meant to see the mother's influence also at work in the rather mysterious way that Cinderella manages to avoid too-early detection” (287). This symbolizes how hard Cinderella's mother is working and how little it matters that Cinderella is pious and

The prince has every girl in the kingdom try on the slipper. Once the prince arrived at Cinderella’s house her two stepsisters immediately did whatever they needed to do to get their feet to fit in the slipper. The first one cut off her toe, and the second cut off her heel. When Cinderella came out, because it was her slipper, her foot slipped right in. On the day of the wedding the two stepsisters came and tried to benefit from Cinderella’s good fortune, but pigeons came and pecked their eyes out, punishing them to be blind for the rest of their lives for the malicious way they treated Cinderella. We assume that Cinderella and the prince marry, and of course, lived happily ever after.

The Disney version of the story, Cinderella, illustrates a different moral than that of the original story. This story believes an ideal child should do what they are told and follow directions and in the end they will reap the rewards. In this story, Cinderella’s mother dies and her father remarries to a woman who has two daughters. While the daughters are pampered, Cinderella must work to keep the house from falling into disrepair. She befriends the animals and they help her to get ready to go to the ball by finishing her chores and making her a dress. When the evil stepsisters discover the dress they become furious because the mice used trimming from their clothing when making the dress. In revenge, the stepsisters rip the dress, leaving Cinderella out of options and out of hope. Just as Cinderella is about to give up, her fairy godmother appears and with a wave of magic creates a dress and turns a pumpkin and the mice into a horse and carriage. The only problem is that everything will turn back to what it was beforehand at midnight. Cinderella and the Prince fall in love at the ball but she must quickly leave because the

With her magnificent gown and majestic shoes in hand, Cinderella proceeds to the ball where the prince falls madly in love with her solely based on her appearance. However, the prince is unable to recognize Cinderella after she changes back to her sooty face and ragged clothes. The shallow relationship between Cinderella and the Prince reveals another fault of society: the pressure placed on superficial characteristics and the emphasis placed upon beauty is a priority set too high. When people must "gussy up" (30) to be noticed, the person within is unable to be seen.

Cinderella is innocent just as the child, and this allows the child to not feel guilt about his jealous judgements towards siblings. Cinderella’s story helps the child realize how terrible things could be for them and to appreciate how lucky they are instead of looking at the negative side of their life.

I found that Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm worked on “Cinderella” to be vastly different from the Disney version. The Grimm brother’s version had no fairy godmother and was very gruesome. An example of this is the telling of what the step sisters did to fit into the slipper that was used to find the prince’s bride to be. “The eldest [step sister] tried it on first in another room, and her mother stood by. She could have worn it if her great toe had not been so large, so her mother offered her a knife, and told her to cut it off ‘When you are queen,’ she said, ‘you will not want to use your feet much’” (Grimm and Grimm 93-94). She did indeed cut off her great toe just so she can possibly get the chance to marry the prince despite all the pain she had to endure in order to do so. That was the same choice her sister made as well “She also went into another room with her mother, and found that she could not get the slipper over her heel. ‘Cut a piece off,’ said her mother, offering her a knife; ‘when you are queen you will not have to use you feet much’” (Grimm and Grimm 94). The situations that the step sisters experienced illustrates how the necessity for beauty

Panttaja also claimed that Cinderella wins the battle in marrying the prince because she was craftier and through magic by forging of her super natural alliance. She was able to seduce the prince not because of her piousness and beauty. Cinderella wins the battle because her mother was able to provide a stunning gown no ordinary dress can compete. (Panttaja, 1993, p. 646) It is compelling to think that everybody who reads old tale feels sorry for her and fails to see the other side of her. Readers were deluded to think that if you are good then you can be like Cinderella and will have your chance to gain power and prestige. Pantajja was successful in enlightening the reader’s point of view of Cinderella’s character and was able to prove and show her true color. Panttaja also succeeded in informing the readers that there is not fair game in Cinderella’s fairy tale and everybody should not feel sorry for her but the prince because he was the true victim in this story.

In lines 45-55, Cinderella was told by her stepmother that she could go to the ball if she picked up all the lentils that he threw down into the cinders. Cinderella was determined to do so and accomplished the chore give to her by her stepmother but that was not enough from the stepmother. “ No, Cinderella, said the stepmother, you have no clothes and cannot dance” lines 54-55. So, after Cinderella did as she was told to do to be allowed to go the dance she was still not aloud to go. This is also an concern in the real world that, Anne Sexton, uses the fairy tale to portray.

The heroine of the story “Cinderella” by Grim Brothers, knows the feeling of rejection very well. She is not welcomed in her “new family” from the beginning. "Just look at the proud princess! How decked out she is!”

The two step sisters had plans to attend but as far as Cinderella she had to finish all of her chores before her step-mother considered allowing her to go. Cinderella finished all that was asked and went to put her mother’s dress on. Her envious sisters destroyed her dress and completely ruined any chance of her going to the ball. At Cinderella’s lowest point her fairy god mother appeared and explained that she is going to help. The fairy god mother gave her everything she needed to attend the ball with one rule to follow. Before the strike of midnight, Cinderella would have to return because all of the magic would disappear. She was excited and thought midnight would be more than enough time. As soon as Cinderella arrived at the ball it was clear she was different and stood out among all the eligible ladies there. The prince had no interest in any of the woman until he laid eyes on Cinderella. He immediately approached Cinderella not knowing anything about her or her title and danced the night away. At the approaching hour of midnight she quickly made her escape and the prince was left with a vacant heart. He knew he met the love of his life that night. When Cinderella fled that night however, she left behind her glass slipper. Cinderella who was always an optimistic person continued and went back to her old lifestyle she didn’t realize she danced the night with the prince and couldn’t forget that memorable night.

Cinderella is clearly trying to show that women should be content with where they are positioned in life and to not try to move up the totem pole otherwise, others will try to push them back. When Cinderella asked to go to the ball, her stepmother ripped her apart, saying that she did not even have any dresses, how would she go to the ball? This was her stepmother’s way of trying to keep Cinderella in her caste of their society. The evidence of Cinderella’s affect on the natural tendency for people to try and tear down those who are successful lies clearly in the newspapers we see everyday. There is always a story about some famous celebrity that tripped up or made a mistake and because of their mistake, people crucify them.

Dress is one of the reasons why Cinderella was not allowed by her step mother to go to the ball. Cinderella only had ragged dresses; she did not have a proper dress to go to the bowl like her step sisters. In the story Perrault described how the step sisters dress to go to the ball; it was indicate the way women should dress to the ball.

Although Cinderella’s two sisters should have been grateful, they weren’t. They spent many mornings and evenings at the dining table recalling cruel stories of what they put her through growing up. Cinderella never spoke up for how she felt, although she hated reliving the stories as she listened to them.

Cinderella is the beautiful woman and in the fairy tale she doesn't have any ambition. For her stepmother and her two stepsisters they were ugly and jealous of Cinderella's beauty and they

The Prince during the beginning of the ball sprints out to this “new princess” with such beauties leading to a sweep of silence over the ballroom as she walked in, leading to the the desisting of dancing and “violins [ceasing] to play” due to the fact that everyones eyes became fixated on the “unknown new-comer” (3). Perrault has the Prince at first sight see this aristocratic Princess, but underneath she has more to hide. An average man would think that he would be able to remember the “finest princess ever seen with with mortal eyes” (4), but Cinderella's material possessions have him tricked. On top Cinderella is a beautiful princess, but underneath all of her material possessions lie her actual proletariat self. Perrault masks Cinderella to show that even regular aristocrats are tricked into thinking a regular house worker (Cinderella) can be linked to the aristocracy, based of off her materialistic appearance. The Prince was also “busied in gazing on her the whole night”, so one would come to the consensus that the Prince should have Cinderella's face engraved into the back of his mind. Though this is not the case, even though Cinderella one the second day comes “dressed more magnificently than before”, the Prince loses his aristocratic Princess, as she is shifted back into