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    Although Cinderella and Cinder have many similarities and differences like having Cinder in both of their names or wearing a dress, they both have similar stories about themselves as well. Cinderella for example does not live in a “futuristic” time setting unlike Cinder who does. Cinder also has differences to Cinderella as well, for example, she is a cyborg and is not entirely human. To continue on, they have similarities as well, such as having a stepmother. Finally, I will be trying to show the

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    story of Cinderella is about a girl whose mother dies and father remarries. The woman he marries is cruel and has two children both wicked. The tale tells readers about Cinderella’s strugglsome life and how everyone treats her like their personal maid and not “one of them”. One night Cinderella wishes to go to the grand ball with her stepmother and two step sisters, but her stepmother restricts her from going by giving her difficult tasks for her to finish before the ball begins. Cinderella finishes

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    Reading, I read Ella Enchanted. Ella Enchanted is based off of the story of Cinderella mostly towards the end. The book has fairies, magic, glass slippers, and even the pumpkin carriage just like in Cinderella! Ella’s name came from the end of the name Cinderella. The Cinder part is supposed to mean dirty or uncleansed. I have come to find out that Cinderella’s real name is Ella, but her stepmother called her Cinderella as an insult. That is how the author, Gail Carson Levine, came up with her name

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    Jane Eyre Response Paper

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    Jane Eyre One could look through the enticing piece of literature that is Jane Eyre through a variety of lenses, two significant lenses being mythological and autobiographical. Charlotte Bronte creates an imaginative plot line that encaptures her readers and contributes to the essence of her work as a whole. Bronte combines the lenses of mythology and autobiography not only to appeal to her readers but to balance out the fairy-tale like events with realistic and real-life issues. Since the beginning

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    People usually visualize Cinderella as the Disney’s version of the princess with blonde hair who ventures off to the royal ball and meets Prince Charming. Cinderella’s story has been around for many centuries, along with many different models of her story. Most viewed as the aspect of eventually escaping from her evil stepmother in the end. Cinderella was first called, Cinderwench which came about as she would sit on cinders and ashes in her story after doing chores. Eventually, the youngest sibling

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    Cinderella: Disney Vs. Grimm A beautiful young girl, leaves her two step sisters and her stepmother whom treated her poorly, marries a young prince, and she lives happily ever after. The fairytale of Cinderella has been one of the most told bedtime stories of all time. Most people can say they associate the story of Cinderella with the 1950 version of Walt Disney. Many people are oblivious of the many versions of this fantasy tale. The original fairytale of Cinderella, by the Brother’s Grimm, was

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    The Obedient Woman in Fairy Tales

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    in the fairy tale genres with stories like Cinderella, and added in the idea of a higher moral authority that the women must be obedient to above all else. Cinderella’s mother tells he that if she is “good and pious, then the dear lord will always assist [her] and [her mother] shall look down from heaven and take care of [her]” (Grimm, 468). The mother dies soon after and Cinderella’s father takes a second wife and two stepdaughters who forced Cinderella to be a slave in the house. The stepsisters

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    example, the story Cinderella, a classic bedtime story for young children, has not only served as traditional fairy tale but legitimatize society’s expectations of young woman; it emphasize on the importance of the ultimate feminine beauty, the expectations of women’s etiquette, responsibilities, personal freedom and the dominant power of the men from 1700’s to even the 20th century. Each variation of Cinderella; Cinderella; Or, the Little Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault, Cinderella by Jacob and Wilhelm

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    Alyssa Buhalo Matt Salvia English Comp 101 31st October 2017 Disney’s Ideal of the Perfect Man and Women Forced onto Children Disney princesses such as Cinderella, Ariel, and Jasmine, and princes such as Prince Charming, Prince Eric, and Aladdin have become household names throughout the years, especially to children in early childhood to adolescence and even some older. Through watching these movies, children are beginning at an early age to picture what men and women should ideally be. This report

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    One of the world’s best known stories is that of Cinderella. Variations of this tale exist in cultures all across the world from Spanish America to Russia to Vietnam, and it has been pulled apart and reimagined into several different forms on the page, stage, and screen. But the incarnation of the story that is probably the most familiar is the one by Charles Perrault, with its signature Fairy Godmother and glass slippers. Despite being published in 1697, it is still popular enough that it was remade

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