A Cinderella’s work is never done and is always treated as if she was a peasant working for her master. The fairy tale of a Cinderella is always portrayed as a woman given hard times because of her villainous stepmom and devilish stepsisters. Nonetheless, there are many interpretations of the Cinderella fairy tale and they compare and contrast each other. The French version of the “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault includes Cinderella working very hard, but forgives her family and lets them live in the palace with her. In Shirley Climo’s Egyptian tale, Rhodopis was kidnapped and sold as a slave by pirates, in the end she became the queen to a pharaoh. Similar in some ways both Perrault’s “The Little Glass Slipper” and the Climo’s “Egyptian Cinderella”
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In the French version, Cinderella was told by her godmother to go to the garden and look for a pumpkin “not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could help her go to the ball” (Perrault). So, then she did and the godmother” struck the pumpkin with her wand, and it was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold” (Perrault). From this, the godmother turned six mice into six horses, the largest rat into a fat coachman, turned six lizards into six footmen, and, turned her clothes into cloth of gold and silver with jewels all around with a pair of glass slippers. Cinderella was the prettiest girl in the world. Cinderella, “being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother, above all things, commanded her not to stay past midnight, telling her, at the same time, that if she stayed one moment longer, the coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and that her clothes would become just as they were before” (Perrault). The Egyptian Cinderella was given “a pair of red-rose gold slippers” (Perrault). She was given it to her by her old, worn-out master when he saw her dancing and he insisted, “no goddess is more quiet!” Then he ordered, “such a gift deserves a reward” (Perrault). Thinking it was a scrap from the sun because of the shininess of the glass slipper, god Horus came down from the sky as a falcon and took the
In the French version, Cinderella was told by her godmother to go to the garden and look for a pumpkin “not being able to imagine how this pumpkin could help her go to the ball” (Perrault). So, then she did and the godmother” struck the pumpkin with her wand, and it was instantly turned into a fine coach, gilded all over with gold” (Perrault). From this, the godmother turned six mice into six horses, the largest rat into a fat coachman, turned six lizards into six footmen, and, turned her clothes into cloth of gold and silver with jewels all around with a pair of glass slippers. Cinderella was the prettiest girl in the world. Cinderella, “being thus decked out, she got up into her coach; but her godmother, above all things, commanded her not to stay past midnight, telling her, at the same time, that if she stayed one moment longer, the coach would be a pumpkin again, her horses mice, her coachman a rat, her footmen lizards, and that her clothes would become just as they were before” (Perrault). The Egyptian Cinderella was given “a pair of red-rose gold slippers” (Perrault). She was given it to her by her old, worn-out master when he saw her dancing and he insisted, “no goddess is more quiet!” Then he ordered, “such a gift deserves a reward” (Perrault). Thinking it was a scrap from the sun because of the shininess of the glass slipper, god Horus came down from the sky as a falcon and took the