The Brother Grimm’s version of Cinderella has hidden meanings in the stories that teach us about how the story resembles or symbolize our society. The first symbol in the story that stood out to me the most is the stepsisters representing society 's cruelness and greed. The second symbol was the stepmother’s envy of Cinderella 's beauty, because Cinderella was more beautiful than her daughter 's. The stepmother thought that her daughter’s were not as beautiful as Cinderella and as a result she was envious of Cinderella, this represent a society dominated by envy and hate. The third symbol is the hazel tree that provided Cinderella with the wisdom and inspiration to overcome the abuse she was going through, this represents how society rewards
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The rich just use the poor to do all their dirty work. Therefore, the rich prevent the poor from ever organizing against them or resisting the will of the rich. The poor won 't stop doing their dirty work for the rich. This is a good example of our society and how the poor are living oppressed by the rich and powerful. The way Cinderella was oppressed by the sisters. Thus, they made the poor struggle to accomplish the most basic human standard of living such as having food and a roof over their heads. Moreover, our society nowadays the dishonest and immoral rich people live the life of kings, because of their power. While the innocent and hardworking people get thrown into the slums, and work for their survival, yet that tells you a lot about our society and how unfair it is to the poor and …show more content…
In the real world it doesn’t work like that. You would have to be very lucky if you get rewarded like Cinderella did by marrying a prince, because what Cinderella was rewarded with is like winning the lottery in our society. However, if you are bad and arrogant you get whatever you desire, because the rich and powerful can afford anything. Although, as the story progresses, the stepsisters get punished for their wrongdoings. To conclude, the rich always want more and can never be satisfied for what they got with all that power and money they become empty inside and die
The rich just use the poor to do all their dirty work. Therefore, the rich prevent the poor from ever organizing against them or resisting the will of the rich. The poor won 't stop doing their dirty work for the rich. This is a good example of our society and how the poor are living oppressed by the rich and powerful. The way Cinderella was oppressed by the sisters. Thus, they made the poor struggle to accomplish the most basic human standard of living such as having food and a roof over their heads. Moreover, our society nowadays the dishonest and immoral rich people live the life of kings, because of their power. While the innocent and hardworking people get thrown into the slums, and work for their survival, yet that tells you a lot about our society and how unfair it is to the poor and …show more content…
In the real world it doesn’t work like that. You would have to be very lucky if you get rewarded like Cinderella did by marrying a prince, because what Cinderella was rewarded with is like winning the lottery in our society. However, if you are bad and arrogant you get whatever you desire, because the rich and powerful can afford anything. Although, as the story progresses, the stepsisters get punished for their wrongdoings. To conclude, the rich always want more and can never be satisfied for what they got with all that power and money they become empty inside and die