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    Expository Composition 73078 September 18, 2017 Cinderella When someone mentions the name “Cinderella”, the first thing that usually comes to our minds is the fairytale in which the fair maiden who works so hard yet it treated so poorly gains her “fairytale ending” with a wave of a magic wand. However, the fairytale of Cinderella written by the Grimm Brothers has multiple differences in plot from the fairytale we all usually think of. The plot of the Cinderella written by the Grimm Brothers, written in

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    A Feminist’s Take on Cinderella Like most children, your childhood, too, was probably full of fairytales and fables. As children, we longed to be like the princes and princesses in these stories, but what if they are not what they seem, especially the story of Cinderella? Cinderella, a girl working almost as a servant for her stepmother is presented with an opportunity to turn her life around when she meets her fairy godmother, who insists on helping her go to the ball, but only if she makes it

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    Anne Sexton Cinderella

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    Anne Sexton’s archetypal poem “Cinderella”, published in 1971, examines the classic Grimm’s fairy tale. At this point in time, Disney’s Cinderella had been around for over twenty years (Sexton, Cinderella). There is a stark contrast between the two works especially in their plot, characterization, and tone. “Cinderella” the poem and Cinderella the movie tell the same general story, despite the many differences among the details in the plot. An unfortunate girl’s parents die leaving her to be

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    version of “Cinderella,” a poor girl receives an evil stepmother, but after going to a celebration, marries a royal hare. There are many versions of “Cinderella” that relate back to their cultural ideas and ways. “Cenerentola” is an Italian version where the stepmother persuades Zezolla to kill her first stepmother than persuade her father to marry her. Zezolla receives date-tree that three times gives her clothes for a festival, and she ends up marrying the king in the end. “Cinderella” is the Bulgarian

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    In both “Cinderella Is Traditional and Straightforward, but Plenty Charming,” by Richard Lawson, and Madonna Kolbenschlag’s “A Feminist’s View of Cinderella,” the popular fairytale of a girl becoming a princess is discussed. Lessons of identity, rivalry, and grief are displayed through both the tale of Cinderella herself and the film. Even though both Lawson and Kolbenschlag address the lessons taught by the story of Cinderella, the extent as to which each author elaborates on if the morals of the

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    Cinderella is a loving, and caring girl, but her past has been tragic. In the France and German story, Cinderella’s mother died so; she had to live with her evil, mysterious stepmother. Her stepmother neglects her and treats her like dirt. But, this all changes when her mythical creature gives her the gold and silver dress. Cinderella stories are all similar it’s just that the way it is brought up is where it differs. To begin this, Cinderella is a beautiful, extravagant, but mistreated girl. First

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    I watched “Cinderella” from the list of Animated Fairy Tales for Children. The characters in this fairy tale are Cinderella, cruel stepmother, and stepsisters who reduce Cinderella to scullery maid. Cinderella is the main character in this movie, and there is no heroic character in this story. As Seger emphasizes in Creating the Myth, “the hero begins as a nonhero; innocent, young, simple, or humble” (qtd. in Seger 336). In Cinderella story, Cinderella is the main character; she shows innocent and

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    Synthesis Of Cinderella

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    The new version of Cinderella displays amazing scenarios full of lighting striking scenes that can easily take the audience to a world of fantasy and romance. For example, Cinderella’s magic transformation to attend the ball incites to fantasize with the impossible coming true. This modernized version is full of sounds and technological effects that traps the audience in a hallucinating and intriguing atmosphere throughout the movie. Besides, the movie appeals audience’s emotions presenting different

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    The story of Cinderella is told by several different cultures many different ways. The way the Cinderella story was told to most of us was the same. A young girl that lived with her evil stepmother and stepsisters went to a ball that she was not supposed to be going to and falls in love with the prince. Her time had ran out and she had to get home which left the prince in shock because he had fallen in love with a girl that he hardly knows. The only thing she left was a glass slipper. He took the

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    princes want Cinderella and Rapunzel's attention, Cinderella and Rapunzel try to get away from the princes, and in the end the princes, Cinderella and Rapunzel all live happily ever after. The song Agony involves the princes trying to impress Cinderella and Rapunzel and the agony they face in doing so. For Ex Cinderella's prince puts sticky goo on the stairs of the castle so she won’t get away. Rapunzel's prince keeps singing outside her window to get her attention. Next, both Cinderella and Rapunzel

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