Do you know a story that is told from much different point of views with the same meaning behind it? Cinderella, the story about a young orphan child who goes to live with her evil stepmother and stepsisters, is one of those various stories. Although there are stories told alike, many are also told differently. In the French story told by Charles Perrault, “Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper”, Cinderella forgives her stepsisters for all the misery they caused her and allowed them to live in the palace with her and the prince and the stepsisters’ husbands. Whereas in the German version of Cinderella, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm tells the audience how the evil stepsisters get punished for their wrong doings. Even though in both the French and the German version Cinderella undergoes similar obstacles, she experiences different fairy godmother figures and different magical transformations.
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In both versions, Cinderella basically has the same job of completing house chores, answering to all of her stepmother and stepsister’s orders, and sleeping in the heath of cinder and ashes. In the French story, Cinderella “scoured the dishes, tables, etc., and cleaned madam’s chamber” (“Cinderella”). In the German story, the sisters did everything imaginable to hurt her;
They made fun of her, scattered peas and lentils into the ashes for her so that she had to sit and pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked herself weary, there was no bed for her. Instead, she had to sleep by the hearth in the ashes. And because she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella. (Grimm) In addition to Cinderella facing the same obstacles in each narrative, she must also acquire help from her fairy
In both versions, Cinderella basically has the same job of completing house chores, answering to all of her stepmother and stepsister’s orders, and sleeping in the heath of cinder and ashes. In the French story, Cinderella “scoured the dishes, tables, etc., and cleaned madam’s chamber” (“Cinderella”). In the German story, the sisters did everything imaginable to hurt her;
They made fun of her, scattered peas and lentils into the ashes for her so that she had to sit and pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked herself weary, there was no bed for her. Instead, she had to sleep by the hearth in the ashes. And because she always looked dusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella. (Grimm) In addition to Cinderella facing the same obstacles in each narrative, she must also acquire help from her fairy