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    Cinderella Story Analysis

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    Since its first telling, this story has been loved and enjoyed by people all around the world. It’s popularity high and it’s variations money, the Cinderella story is appreciated by children and adults alike. However, as time has passed and values changed, these variations have become more divisive. Many American parents have trouble allowing their children to read them when much of the material they disagree with. This not only puts them in a difficult position with their children but also with

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    the same theme and have more differences than similarities. But Cinderella is a movie and cinder is book. Although Cinder has more in the book I think Cinderella has a lot more than cinder. Cinderella’s name is Ella. not Cinderella. Her step sister nicknamed her that. Ella knew her birth mother and father. Her mother died when she was young and her father died shortly after her step mother came into her life. Ella’s friends are animals (mice). She is a lonely girl. She meets the prince in the

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    Cinderella Comparison

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    than futuristic like a cinder. Cinderella seem to be in America in the olden days while Cinder will be in New Beijing in the future. Although “Cinder” and “Cinderella” have many similarities like, falling in love with the prince or having evil step sisters, they also have more differences, for example, Cinder is trying to figure out what she really is other than a Cyborg, while Cinderella is trying to go to the ball for prince kit. The different features of ‘Cinderella’ is she’s a fully human

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    The fairy tale Cinderella is a well known story about serving, kindness, true love, and a little bit of magic. It is one of the oldest fairy tales and has been interpreted many different ways. Even though the details have changed, the main storyline remains the same. Around 1697, a child-friendly version of Cinderella was created by Charles Perrault who had a major impact on modern history in France (Encyclopedia Americana, 2006). Charles Perrault was a french poet, prose writer, and storyteller

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    now-a-days, they can be made into movies. Most fairy tales be characters that brave, clumsy, smart, mean, sad, and educated. The two stories “Psyche and Cupid” and “Ashputtle” has a lot in common. “Ashputtle” is a story about a girl with two mean step-sisters. Ashputtle is really another story like Cinderella. In the story “Psyche and cupid”, Psyche is a girl who got punished to be with Cupid, Venus’ son, because Venus was jealous of Psyche beauty. “Psyche and Cupid” is another story for “Beauty and the

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    pigeons, and the prince. Aschenputtel is a protagonist because she is pious and good to everyone. The doves are protagonists because they helped Aschenputtel with her chores. The pigeons are protagonist because they assistance in blinding the evil step sisters for their wickedness. The last protagonist is the prince. The prince rescues Aschenputtel from evil. The antagonist(s) are the stepmother, two stepsisters. All three of them took away all Aschenputtel’s dresses and shoes. They dressed her like a

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    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote their version of Cinderella in 1812. The fairy tale is about a young girl who is forced to live with her two evil stepsisters and stepmother. Cinderella tries to be positive and devout, even though her family is atrocious to her. In the end, the prince takes Cinderella to his castle and they live happily ever after. The story describes the gender roles, conflicts, and implies how the story has changed over time. Frequently in the story, the characters’ traits are

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    do we really know the message behind them ? Cinderella is about a girl who is trying to achieve her dreams but she has a step mother that is greedy and cruel with her ,whom she treats cinderella as a slave. Cinderella is getting abused by her own sisters and stepmother , but she doesn't say anything. The story shows us that society expects women to be passive. It's not only about the behavior but women’s goals themselves that are being dictated by the fairy tales. The women in this story is expected

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    Over the years many versions of Cinderella have been written, each one is unique to itself but they share just enough characteristics with the original tale that they can still be called a Cinderella story. More specifically in this essay I am going to analyze the role of the stepmom and how she is shown as cruel towards her stepchild and her motivations to do so. The first story that this is evident in is Yeh-Hsien. In this story a man married a women and had a daughter named Yeh-Hsien. Then his

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    step mother and her 2 step sisters, she is not treated with respect, more like a servant. She mets the prince, and then ultimately he saves her from her step mother. Cinderella highlights key issues with gender roles and stereotypes. It suggests when determining a woman's worth, it is based on their physical appearance, not on other aspects of them, such as personalities or beliefs. These ideas are clearly evident in sections of the film when Cinderella is determined as ugly because of her original

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