Cinderella and its variations
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 ever creat
Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm's "Ashputtle" is more similar to Disney's version then Lee's. There are slight variations that are not seen in Disney's version. Ashputtle has a father who doesn't die and there is a slight twist of fate in this version. The wicked stepsisters who treat Ashputtle just as a servant suffer when they have their eyes pecked at and are blinded for the rest of their lives for being so wicked. The last observation that the stepsisters ever witness is the smile on Ashputtle's face with her new husband the prince, a lasting impression that the sisters will never forget. The lesson that this fairy tale is as the Bible says, "You reap what you sow". The stepsisters always treating others especially Ashputtle came back to them and to teach them what it's like on the other side of wickedness. This shows that you need to treat other's as you would like to be treated. "Cinderella" decipher the outcome of the story and the moral value learned Writing across the curriculum. beherns,L & Rosen,L.J. 2000 Addison wesley longman 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
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