Cinderella Argumentative Essay

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Throughout my childhood, I’ve watched many famous fairy tale movies that I still admire until this day. One of my favorite fairy tale movies tells the story of a young maiden girl named Cinderella who lived with two horrible stepsisters and one evil stepmother who found her way to her true love and happiness with one fairy godmother and one glass slipper and lived happily ever after. However, many people, rather than getting the magical ending like Cinderella, do not get the happily ever after they desire. Into the Woods is the story of a couple, the baker and his wife, who seeks a child by ending a revengeful witch’s curse with a four fairy tales crossovers, which are the Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. The couple had gone through a three days journey to acquire items from the four fairy tales and were able to break the curse and obtain a child: however, they, along with the fairy tales character, did not get to live their peaceful life they expected afterwards. A female ogre comes to the village and takes revenge on Jack, who is responsible for her husband’s death, and in the process, the baker’s wife cheats …show more content…
Many children grew up with the story of a young beautiful princess named Snow White who lived with seven dwarfs and an evil stepmother Queen who poisoned her with an apple, but the princess woke up with a true love kiss from her lovely prince, but this is not the case for “The True Story of Snow White.” The Queen took over the kingdom with her dark powers and ordered her men to murder the young dwarfs that took care of the young princess. Snow White, who is in a deep death like sleep, does not wake up and is “to lie forever in unlovely sleep which not a prince has power to break” (Bennett 155). This was not the typical story that I’ve heard as a

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