Tale Of The Shoe: Quote And Response
“The Tale of the Shoe” Quote and Response essay
In the story “The Tale of the Shoe”, Donoghue discusses both the original story of Cinderella and the many stereotypical aspects it has throughout. Donoghue puts emphasis on how marriage is necessary in order to achieve the “happy ending” that everyone expects and how people assume that the characters in the story are heterosexual; the portrayal of characters who are presented as good always winning the characters who are bad. Donoghue gets rid of the stereotypes with key themes such as, “Lesbian” and “Female” which have been ignored and avoided in the original story of Cinderella. One quotation that stands out from this text is, “Nobody made me do the things I did, nobody scolded me, nobody
In the story “The Tale of the Shoe”, Donoghue discusses both the original story of Cinderella and the many stereotypical aspects it has throughout. Donoghue puts emphasis on how marriage is necessary in order to achieve the “happy ending” that everyone expects and how people assume that the characters in the story are heterosexual; the portrayal of characters who are presented as good always winning the characters who are bad. Donoghue gets rid of the stereotypes with key themes such as, “Lesbian” and “Female” which have been ignored and avoided in the original story of Cinderella. One quotation that stands out from this text is, “Nobody made me do the things I did, nobody scolded me, nobody