The Cinderella Story: The Tragedy Of Cinderella's Story

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Subsequently after Cinderella’s story begin the first thing the story mentions was the death of Cinderella 's mother. After Cinderella 's mother died, her dad gets married to an evil stepmother, that has two daughters that are very spoiled by their mother. To emphasize on how evil and wicked they were the stepmother and stepsisters prevented any possibilities for Cinderella to live a happy life. Under those circumstance Cinderella goes through a lot of mental abuse that have no justification. Although, the reason that Cinderella 's stepmother treats her very poorly is, because of the envy she has for Cinderella. The envy that comes from Cinderella 's stepmother is the jealousy of Cinderella 's beauty, and it bothers the stepmother that her …show more content…
Cinderella 's dad asked her stepsisters and Cinderella if they liked anything from the fair Cinderella replied with the choice of a tree branch which is truly humbling and strange of her to ask for a twig and that truly shows how close she is to nature and how she is not superficial and materialistic like her stepsisters. Therefore, her decision of the tree branch was a major turning point for Cinderella and that humble decision opened a lot of possibilities for her life and future. On the contrary, her stepsisters asked for dresses and jewels. All they asked for was nothing but superficial and materialistic objects. Thus, they got what they asked for, but did not deserve the gifts. All in all, their lifestyle will not last long, because whatever is on the top has to come falling down. Cinderella 's strange choice of the hazel tree branch was very odd. Cinderella planted the twig in her mother 's grave and every night Cinderella visited the tree and she cried with tears of sorrow that watered the hazel tree. As the hazel tree grew it housed many wonderful birds, turtle doves and pigeons, which showered Cinderella with pretty silver dresses and golden shoes for the festival where she is going meet the prince. This magical hazel tree fulfilled all the deepest wishes Cinderella ever had. My representation of the hazel tree is …show more content…
Thus, the hazel tree grew Cinderella wished for better shoes and the tree gave Cinderella golden shoes. I think that the representation of the golden shoes is that it symbolises on Cinderella 's values as a person and how she is worth more than how she is being treated by her evil stepmother and stepsisters. Just what Cinderella 's mother told Cinderella be good and pious and good things will come from it and it came to be true. In addition, these same golden shoes carried Cinderella to her future prince and the same shoes guided the prince back to her after the festival. Furthermore Cinderella 's golden shoe no other women could be available to fit into the slippers, but the only women that could was Cinderella. This had a meaning that no other women were as valuable as Cinderella. Even though Cinderella started a hard life with Her stepmother and stepsisters with wooden shoes she finished with golden shoes that means that hard work pays off at the end of the day. To conclude Cinderella got the happy ending she deserved and ended up with the princes, and at the end she got what she deserved and all her wishes came

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