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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.…

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    “I can’t wait to go home for break,” that’s all I’ve been hearing the past month here at Geneva College. “Home,” a term I’m not even sure I know the true meaning of because I was raised in two of them; at the same time. My parents got divorced when I was 5 years old so the world of growing up with two Christmas’ and having to always let me friends know which house I was at when they were invited over, was normal to me. I had two blood sisters, three step sisters, a step brother, and a…

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    Chapter 1: In the beginning of the chapter the managers of the Opera house are hosting their last performance before their retirement. After the performance, a group of young ballet dancers run into La Sorelli’s dressing room in fear that they had seen the Opera ghost. After some time a mother of one of the dancers told them that Joseph Buquet was found hanging by a rope underneath the stage. The managers blamed the missing body on the dancers, however Gaston Leroux suggests that this was done…

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    Pride and Prejudice is one of the most famous romance novels of all time. It centers on the representation of society, manners, marriage, and love in 19th century England. Author, Jane Austen, tells the convoluted love story of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy and describes the challenges it takes for the two of them to receive their happy ending. Elizabeth is the protagonist of the story and plays a pivotal role in the plot because she is a round and dynamic character, has a variety of…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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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    Have you ever felt alone or left out at school? How about at home? Cinderella was left out most of her life after her mother died. In Grimm’s Cinderella, her father did not want her nor did he care for her. However in Disney’s Cinderella, her father tried to take care of her, but he eventually died. Even though she had a rough life as a servant, she still looked for love, and she ended up finding it. While some similarities between Grimm’s Cinderella and Disney’s Cinderella are noticeable, the…

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    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…

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    The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were born in Hanau, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, and novelists who mutually focused on the gathering and publication of folk tales during the 19th century. They were midst the best-known narrators of folk tales, and popularized stories such as Cinderella, (Aschenputtel), Hansel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin (Rumpelstilzchen), Sleeping Beauty (Dornröschen), and Snow White…

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