Four Versions Of Cinderella

There are many types of stories. Of these stories, there are over 900 versions of Cinderella. But in this essay, I will only be talking about four of them. I will compare, contrast, and conclude those four versions called, “Yeh-Shen”, “The Algonquin Cinderella”, “Aschenputtel”, and “Interview” in this essay.

One thing you probably didn’t know, is that these three stories are very old, which is something they all have in common. They also all have an element of magic. For example, Aschenputtel had a magic tree that would grant her wishes, Algonquin had an invisible prince, which obviously contains a little bit of magic. And Yeh-Shen had magic fish bones after her stepmother killed the magic fish. Another similarity is that they all had a Cinderella …show more content…
Here are a few of them. Of course you already know that these versions of Cinderella all contain a Cinderella character, but did you know they don’t all have stepsisters? In “Aschenputtel” and “The Algonquin Cinderella” there are two stepsisters, but in “Yeh-Shen” there is only one. And in “Interview” there are none, only a stepmother. In “Interview” the stepmother is talking about her point of view only on Cinderella, while the other stories are talking about everyone. Since we are talking about how two stories are different from the other one, we must talk about the endings. In the end of “Aschenputtel” and “Yeh-Shen”, none of the stepsisters are punished, while in “The Algonquin Cinderella”, the two stepsisters were punished after burning their sister. In “Aschenputtel” the stepsisters made Aschenputtel pick up lentils as torture, but in “Yeh-Shen” the stepmother killed Yeh-Shen’s fish. All she was left with were magic fish bones, as I mentioned before. Meanwhile, Aschenputtel had a magic tree and Algonquin didn’t have anything at all. Another thing Algonquin didn’t have was a stepmom. On the other hand, the stories “Aschenputtel”, “Yeh-Shen”, and “Interview” all had stepmothers and they were evil. Also "Interview" was a modern poem, but the other three were full stories and a lot older. "Yeh-Shen" is suspected to be at least 1,000 years old! Another difference is that all the stories came from different origins. “Aschenputtel” is German, “Yeh-Shen” is Chinese, and “The Algonquin Cinderella” is Native American. In "Yeh-Shen" and "Aschenputtel", the two main characters had a father figure. The difference was that in "Aschenputtel" the father figure was alive but always away, in contrast, in "Yeh-Shen" the father dies. In "The Algonquin Cinderella" Algonquin, doesn't even have a father. But what she does have is an invisible prince that she will end up with, while Aschenputtel ends up with the