Mirabal sisters

To begin with the German and France Cinderella story have similarities in a young girl who loses her mother and gain a stepmother and stepsister. Once the stepmother and her daughters moved in the stepmother and stepsister’s mistreated Cinderella and didn’t allow her to do anything. Not allowing her to go with them to special occasions. In the German story of Cinderella, Cinderella does not have a godmother. In the France story Cinderella has a godmother and goes to the ball. In German she does…

A common fairytale motif is that of the evil stepmother, in such tales as Aschenputtel, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, and The Almond Tree. A character whose main purpose is to oppose the hero/ heroine at all costs, the polar opposite of our main character. This polarization is essential for us to understand the goodness of the hero, to want them to succeed, and to see how good triumphs over evil. The most thought of evil-stepmother is that of the Queen in Snow White. This character is…

The following is a case study of a female named Cinderella. Cinderella is a story about a young girl whose mother passed away. Her father remarried and she lives with both her father, stepmother and stepsisters. Her stepmother treated her cruelly. Cinderella had to do her chores, her stepmoms and stepsisters. The way Cinderella was mistreated affected her life. When she wanted to go out, she couldn’t. She was going through sibling rivalry, emotional/social abuse and child cruelty/physical…

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there are some main differences between the two characters that play the father. In Grimm’s Cinderella, her father never dies. He lives with Cinderella and the step-family. He is rude to Cinderella and treats her the same way her step-mother and step-sisters treat her, which is unfairly. Her father acts like she is a trouble or a nuisance to the family. In Disney’s…

Throughout my childhood, I’ve watched many famous fairy tale movies that I still admire until this day. One of my favorite fairy tale movies tells the story of a young maiden girl named Cinderella who lived with two horrible stepsisters and one evil stepmother who found her way to her true love and happiness with one fairy godmother and one glass slipper and lived happily ever after. However, many people, rather than getting the magical ending like Cinderella, do not get the happily ever after…

This does suggest that there is a woodland nearby. We also see a castle during the nights of the Princes festival. Clearly defined good and evil characters, we can see the good in Cinderella and the evil characters being her step mother and step sisters. Characters often take on unusual forms such giants, witches but in the original version of Cinderella there are no Fairy godmothers and Pumpkins turning into Carriages, instead a Branch from a hazel bush granting Cinderella her wish. Also…

I feel that the story, “The Girl Who Drank the Moon” has many of the same characteristics that are found in fairy tales. For example many fairy tales have magical elements and characters that are witches. Most fairy tales have evil and good characters, and animals that talk. Fairy tales also have a clearly defined problem and something happens within a group, it could be characters or events. I found all of these elements in this story, “The Girl Who Drank the Moon.” For example some of the…

Fairy tales have been around for centuries, but underneath the sugar coated, Disney films we have come to know and love, lies a dark truth. The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the tradition of written stories. Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation. After years of these stories being passed down orally, two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, became fascinated with old folktales, fables, legends, and…

Once upon a time Alive at the beginning of the story. Seems like a loving father who cared for Cinderella as well his stepsisters, but simply could not confront his domineering second wife. When the father went into the town, he asked all three girls what they wanted and brought them what they wished. He is also present at the ball and suspects the mysterious beautiful maiden is his daughter. At the end of the tale he refers to Cinderella as “little stunted kitchen-wench which my late wife left…