Cinderella and its variations in endings

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What exactly makes a story a Cinderella story? Is it the ending? While there seem to be several interpretations of Cinderella they all seem to have the same conceptual endings. The main-character a girl named Cinderella who is mistreated by her two stepsisters and mother. Cinderella is a good, kind person. Cinderella's goodness is always rewarded with magical assistance or by a fairy godmother. The ending always leaves Cinderella elevated in position by a royal person, who loves her for her good qualities that is noticed at the ball by the prince. The traditional ending usually has one or more characters at a higher ranking within the story then another set of characters; everything is happy and all problems are resolved in the end. Or in fairy tales the common ending phrase is, "And they lived happily ever after".

There is more to a fairy tale such as Cinderella then that everyone lives happily ever after. Fairy tales are stories meant for children to teach a moral and valuable lesson. The variations in Cinderella offer different lessons and values.

The classic Cinderella fairy tale, is Walt Disney's; Moreover, Walt Disney's version of "Cinderella" was the only version

pabilities, eventually happiness will find you.

Fairy tales are made up stories that usually hold a significant moral value to be learned at the end. For example the classic story of, "The Boy Who cried Wolf". Eventually after crying wolf several times, none of the village people answered to the boy's false plea for help. Since the boy lied as he did, the wolf ate him. Fairy tales such as these are meant to teach children everyday lessons about the type of people they should strive to be and in this instance that lesson is to not lie; however what are the lessons Walt Disney's "Cinderella", "When the Clock Strikes Twelve" and "Ashputtle" have to offer?

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The prince is in awe at the sight of Ashella, that after a night of dancing he asks for her hand in marriage. As the clock strikes twelve, a spell placed on the prince and Ashella evaporates into nothing. All that remained was a glass slipper, and an unhappy and now insane prince. Ashella's father eventually comes forward to tell the story of his first wife and his daughter, and how the prince had actually encountered the merchant's daughter. Running for the merchant's house in search of Ashella with the glass slipper the prince falls and the glass slipper shatters. Having completed her mother's wishes the son was now in complete agony, having no father, no love no happiness. The moral to this story is that life is full and we don't always get what we want in life, meaning we have to accept that all things are sometimes not meant to be. Ashella's mother wanted to kill both the Duke and the prince but she took her own life to spare her daughters, the merchant wanted Ashella t!

Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Ashputtle" is more similar to Disney'

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