The Fairy Tale Of Cinderella As A Love Story

In the first chapter of Emma, the main character Emma Woodhouse, plays matchmaker for her in-home caregiver. Miss Taylor, the caregiver, benefited from being at the center of Emma’s matchmaking, but at the expense of Emma. “The want of Miss Taylor would be felt every hour of every day. She recalled her past kindness—the kindness, the affection of sixteen years—how she had devoted all her powers to attach and amuse her in health—and how nursed her through the various illnesses of childhood” (Austen 362). As stated in the beginning of the chapter, Emma’s mother had passed away long ago. Jane Austen describes and establishes the impact that Miss Taylor had on Emma’s life and the love they shared. Emma’s father

Her misfortune in the opening is that her ‘beloved’ friend Miss Taylor was getting married and would soon be leaving their estate to live with her husband. “Sorrow came—a gentle sorrow—but not at all in the shape of any disagreeable consciousness.” (1, Emma) in this novel, it is already evident that marriage isn’t what this heroine desires because she views marriage as a sorrowful event. It took her sister away and now her friend. Though her “employment” is to marry people, Emma doesn’t find the idea of marriage as an appealing

Have you ever had a dark and gloomy day? Imagine having that feeling every single day. The Grimm’s Cinderella was written in 1812. 1812 was one of the harshest years for America. An event that formed it was the war against Great Britain and the United States. Not only was there a war, but there was also a series of disastrous harvests. Taxes got higher, and more than twenty people who were involved with a Luddite Act were hung. In 1812, there was also the only assassination of a prime minister, who was shot dead in the House of Commons. The Grimm Brothers have put the dark times of 1812 into their stories. Some of their stories contain violence, child abuse, and wicked mothers. They came up with these types of stories after their father died, and when they struggled out of school. That gave them enough time to research and put together a collection of folk tales. Now you can see why the Grimm’s Cinderella was dark and gloomy. Although the plot stayed the same, over the years, the story did get lighter. Disney’s Cinderella came out in 1950. In 1950, learning information was not by fear, but by engaging happiness. Disney’s Cinderella transforms the Grimm’s Cinderella into a happier atmosphere. While some similarities between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are noticeable, the differences are pronounced, especially when referring to the slippers, her father, and the ball.

Emma finds that Mr. Martin had written a letter of proposal to Harriet. Upon reading the letter together and discussing that Harriet should reject the proposal, Emma says, “A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.” (75). Being a well wealthy enough woman, Emma has the ability to refuse a marriage proposal, unlike other girls, in this case Harriet. Throughout the novel, there are certain events that happen as to where readers might find to be foolish. An example, when Mr. Knightley discusses with Mrs. Weston explaining why Harriet is not a good companion for Emma, “How can Emma imagine she has any thing to learn herself, while Harriet is presenting such a delightful inferiority?” (67). Mr. Knightley’s argument is based upon the standards of Highbury and he believes that as long as no one better than Emma is close

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

The ensuing disconnect between Emma’s perception and the reality of her surroundings forms the crux of Austen’s novel. Just as Cher convinces herself that Elton loves Tai and Christian loves her, everything that Emma imagines is occurring in her small village turns out to be wrong, and she manipulates people and events with disastrous results. Emma suffers little limitation as she goes to the Cole’s party, to the ball at the Crown, and to the excursion at Box Hill, "provided all was safe at Hartfield." The fact that this represents Emma 's change of response to her father rather than being a change in Mr. Woodhouse himself is made clear by details which would have felt inconceivable in book three, for instance, we casually hear that Emma had replaced the small uncomfortable table at Hartfield with a modern round table sometime in the unspecified past.

The story of Cinderella has become a classic fairy tale, known around the world, and past down from generation to generation. Yet, over the years, the story has been rewritten to better relate to different cultures. While some things never change, authors still manage to convey different messages by making the story their own. This can be clearly seen when the Grimm brothers version of Cinderella is compared to Charles Perrault’s version of Cinderella. While the core of the story does not change, the moral, tone, and “magical” aspects of the two stories are clearly shaped by the different cultures in which they were written in.

Emma, is the story of the education and growth process of Emma. Throughout majority of the novel, Emma involves herself in bad situations in which she misconstrues facts and blinds herself from the truth, at the expense of others. After Emma has discovered that she has been terribly wrong about Mr. Elton, and she was mistaken to encourage Harriet's affection of him, Emma says, "It was foolish, it was wrong to take so active a part in bringing two people together, it was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious- a trick of what ought to be simple!." Emma

There are certain similarities in two variants of the story. Main characters are the same and basic plot is repeated in two versions with slight differences. Cinderella is a classical story, which exists, in many different cultures and countries. It reflects the story of poor girls who suffers different privations but finds the way out from different situations and becomes happy. The story about Cinderella is a story of hope and many people are fond of this story. It does not lose its popularity with the flow of time and light changes in the plot and depiction of the characters only reflect cultural and historical differences. The story of Cinderella passes

Devlin sneered in annoyance at the princesses' little performance. Was there no end to this girl's annoyance? The wretched thing was becoming far more trouble than she could possibly be worth. Perhaps it would be easily simply to slip a hemp noose around that slender neck and dangle her from the castle walls, along with many others of her class who now ornamented the battlements like strange fruit. But then, that would deny him the satisfaction of breaking her. The harder she fought back, the more he wanted to see her grovel. That was almost all Devlin could think of it and it was consuming him.

Little information is given about Emma’s mother, who has died when she were a child. After her sister married and left Heartfield, Emma has developed a rare and close relationship with her father, which is the main source for Emma’s sense of independence and control. Therefore, with the mother gone, similar to Emma in temperament and talent, Emma lost the sole person who had a position of control over her. As demonstrated by Mr. Knightley’s observation: “ever since she was twelve, Emma has been mistress of the house and of you all. In her mother she lost the only person able to cope with her. She inherits her mother’s talents, and must have been under subjection to her” (48).

A Modern Day Fairytale take of the Cinderella Story. I am such a sucker for sweet books and I’m glad I one clicked on this one. This book wasn’t as long as I thought it would be, it’s actually a very quick fun read. With a sweet spunky heroine and a sweet sexy Prince Charming.

In Austen’s one book Emma, tells the story of a young privileged girl named Emma Woodhouse. Emma is a young twenty-year-old, beautiful,

Cinderella is just like many other stories that talks about love many Cinderella stories have fables in them that give us a different moral for love. They can either tell us how lying tends to lead us to difficult love situation and too loose what we gained from keeping a certain thing with us. Cinderella does teach us most of the time that they are boundaries to when your true love appears in your life but at the end you’ll will find a way to be together no matter what come in between their love.

This image and atmosphere of mundane imperfection is a far cry from what Emma expects after reading the romantic novels she smuggled in at the convent. From those foppish texts she gathers the impression that ladies such as she should be “lolling on carriages” or “dreaming on sofas,” or perhaps embracing some dashing “young man in a short cloak” (Flaubert 32). Yet such is not the reality in which she lives.