The Glass Slipper

Poem Knives by Jane Yolen the idea of love is represented through symbols and each have their own meaning. The first is the idea of a love slipper. It represents the idea of easy love and how love can just fit on anyone or anyone can fit into love, “they thought love was like an old slipper: pull it on and it fits.” it also means comfortable love. Yet a slipper doesn’t last very long it will deteriorate and become wrecked and warped if not cherished. Another symbol from the poem is a shoe. For a…

of cultures. Cinderella is an example of a story that has been altered into different versions yet consists of similar plots. In the different versions of Cinderella, the characters stay with the same personalities and the same concept of trying a slipper on to marry the prince at the end. In two versions of Cinderella by the Grimm Brothers and by Charles Perrault, there are many resemblances in the situations occurring; however, there are quite a few differences in both stories. In Aschenputtel…

One day, a man named Kai was with his mom. His mother told him to go out into the woods and collect us some food. Kai gathered a bag and a stick, then went off into the woods. He began to gather some berries, potatoes, and carrots. It was getting late, so he started to go back home to the cottage. Only to find it destroyed. He searched and found nothing, not even his mother. He continued to search, and out of nowhere a witch appeared. “ I am Saph, I have taken everything you have ever loved.”…

the slipper, shows us both of the economics in each of the countries that these stories originated in In the French version, Cinderella, the symbol of the shoe reveals the culture's style of clothing. In the French version, Cinderella, the shoes are made out of a special something, and in this version glass. In all the Cinderellas, the symbol of the shoe, represents a material that is unique and valuable to that country. In the French version, when she loses her shoe, it’s called a slipper when…

The third similarity is something “magical” helps them (yeh-shen's mother turns into a fish and cinderella has a fairy godmother). The fourth similarity is they both have small feet to fit into their slippers. in the story cinderella her stepsisters feet were too big to fit into the glass slipper. the…

Cinderella’s appearance for the ball she was to attend. In Perrault’s rendition of Cinderella, she is given glass slippers and a beautiful gold and silver dress. But in the Grimm Brothers version of the story, her godmother has provided her with a beautiful gold and silver dress with slippers that are silk and silver. Although the dresses sound very similar and most likely were thought to be, the slippers were described differently in each story making it a contrast between the two versions in…

in the film. Without her there also wouldn’t have been the beautiful coach and of course, Cinderella’s outstanding blue dress and unique glass slippers. The main difference between the Disney and Grimm’s version is the slipper. The Brothers Grimm’s slipper was a lovely golden, while Disney on the other hand had the outstanding idea to change the slipper to glass, making it stand out more to the viewers and have a larger meaning to the tale. The Fairy godmother also teaches the lesson that being…

everything: amazing transformations, the pumpkin, the glass slipper, the masked ball and happy endings. The play opens in the village square, the Herald proclaims "The Prince Is Giving a Ball" to celebrate the Prince Christopher's…

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”…

There are many differences between Cinderella and Ashputtle but there are also similarities. There was the glass slipper and the evil stepsisters/ stepmother. But the movie has big differences then the original story. For example the way she got the dress, how the stepsister tried the shoe on, where she slept etc. If the movie were to be exactly like the story than kids around the world would not be allowed to watch the film. It might have been a good thing that they made changes. Cinderella…