Compare And Contrast Cinderella And Elinputtel

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Cinderella and Ashenputtel folktale stories are the same in comparison with minor detail differences to contrast about each storyline. The major characters posses the same roles with different names. The story begins the same in the context of the father being remarried. Therefore, causing a chain of events to occur over the course of three days.
Each story begins differently but exchanges the same ending. Cinderella's dad remarried a woman with two daughters. They all have bad tempers which are hot displayed until after the marriage. On the other hand, Ashenputtel's mother was on her deathbed telling her to "continue devout and good ". Mentioning "I will look down from heaven and watch over you" three days later her father remarried. Cinderella and Ashenputtel now have a stepmother and two stepsisters that are all equally mean to the protagonists of the stories.
Cinderella and Ashenputtel are obviously main characters of their stories, but they both have one character that is physically different but acts as the same in each. The major characters of Cinderella are the step-mother, the godmother, two step sisters and the prince. Ashenputtel's list of major
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Her sisters were invited to Prince's ball Cinderella wasn't allowed to go.Her godmother appears gives her everything she needs to go and, tells her to be back by 12 o'clock. She drops her glass slipper, and the prince orders a proclamation whoever fits the slipper will be his wife. Ashenputtel's story is less traditional than Cinderella this story starts with the father going to a fair and bringing back a hazel twig that Ashenputtel planted on her mother's grave anytime she made a wish her godmother/ bird would bring her everything she needed to attend. On the last night of the feast, she dropped her gold slipper. Prince proclaimed marriage to who fit the shoe. Both stories have almost the same background there is just a little variation between

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