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    popular fairytales are more relevant than the others. This is exemplified in the in depth look at two fairy tales written by the same author. That author is Charles Perrault. Perrault infamously re-wrote his own version of Cinderella and wrote the tale of Blue beard. Cinderella is known all around the globe; from what she wears to what she says, Bluebeard on the other hand is a story that is vague to the typical fairytale reader. The readers being children under fourteen who drive the industry so heavily. Perrault’s Cinderella has taken new heights all thanks to Disney, the theme that it has, and Perrault’s Cinderella contains no violence or gore. To begin with, Disney…

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    Have you ever been treated like no one wants you? Well, Cinderella has a pretty good idea of what it's like. In her story she is being mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Anastasia, and Drizella. In both the Disney's version and the Grimm's version she feels this way. As she tries her best to please them it seems that it's just not good enough, but with a little help her dreams can come true. While some similarities between Disney's Cinderella and Grimm's Cinderella are evident, the…

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    people in all kinds of ways. They leave people with different interpretations of what they could mean. Elisabeth Panttaja wrote “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”, an article describing the role of Cinderella's mother in the classic tale. Panttaja takes a stand on a view point most people have not considered before. The author gives countless examples of how Cinderella’s mother is still with her despite being dead. And how Cinderella’s mother’s presence and powers are what shapes Cinderella…

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    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…

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    I felt that Sexton’s “Cinderella” was a direct counterpoint to Disney’s version of Cinderella because the contrast between the two is so stark. However, after doing a little research I found out that Sexton published a book of poems based on the Grimm Brothers fairy tale called Transformations. So Sexton was not calling out Disney specifically, still, the plot is similar and they can be compared and contrasted. Most are familiar with the Disney version, I perhaps more than most having two…

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    Fairy tales are full of fantasies of romance and magic, which in reality aren’t possible, however, one can dream. Walt Disney’s film Cinderella, and the Brothers Grimm story, Aschenputtel (Cinderella), both tell the tale of a young maiden who loses everything, except her dignity, which results in her sadly becoming a servant to her evil stepmother and sisters, but eventually she finds her prince charming, living happily ever after. Although these two stories seem alike, they are each told…

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    Im guessing you have all read the disney cinderella. Did you know there is another Cinderella though. The other Cinderella is the Grimms Cinderella. The Grimms Cinderella is the original. It is darker than disney's Cinderella. The differences between grimm's Cinderella and disney's Cinderella are striking and they deserve thorough examination In both Cinderellas the sisters are evil. They are evil on the outside and inside. No matter what the sisters look like they are just pure evil. In…

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    In the book “Victorian Transformations: Fairy Tales, Adolescence and the novel of female development” several critics have seen Jane Eyre as a rewriting story of the Cinderella and the beginning of the book especially supports this view. To begin with, Robert K. Martin believes that the Cinderella’s theme is especially apparent in the first chapters of the novel, "as Jane Eyre emphasizes her own position as abandoned child, with evil aunt and two [sic] evil cousins, whose parentage is…

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    Symbolism In Cinderella

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    Cinderella Fairy tales are not what most of the world thinks they are. Quite a few of them are horrifying and gruesome but all of the stories have a specific meaning to them just like any other. In more ways than one, “The fairy tale demonstrates what it meant to be beautiful and heroic and how to achieve “royal” status with the help of grace and good fortune”(Zipes 4). Many of these stories have stood up against the test of time due to ethnic groups using storytelling to recover history and…

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    Cinderella Parallels

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    In this essay I will be explaining the many parallels between Cinder and the original story of Cinderella. There is a lot of different parallels that I was able to think of and I'm sure they're many more that I did not think of. The glass slipper Cinderella leaves at the ball parallels with the cyborg foot Cinder loses when she attempts to escape the ball. On page 365, “On the fifth step, she heard the bolts snap. The wires tore loose, like tendons stretched to the max. She felt the loss of…

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