Cinderella: Perrault’s Purpose vs. Disney’s Drama English 310 October 10‚ 2013 Cinderella: Perrault’s Powerful Purpose vs. Disney’s Dramatized Dream Growing up I can remember how I felt after watching the Cinderella story. Inspired by the rags-to-riches fairy tale‚ I can remember hoping that maybe someday I could be like Cinderella. I never imagined the story I knew all-too-well would have been dramatically altered from its original version. Though the lesson remains
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one of many cinderella stories told all over the world ‚ both stories are told different but in reality they are really alike and come from the same roots and just happened to be passed down to one another throughout the years‚ creating a magical vision for children but also in the depth of it leaving behind a life lesson everyone can learn from. In both stories each girl finds refuge with their new friends‚ although they are certainly not human the mice were there for Cinderella when she needed
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Have you read any Cinderella stories rather than the one everyone knows? If not there are many other Cinderella story’s to read but the one everyone knows is the original one which is much alike to the France one. There are other versions like Mexico‚ German‚ Chinese‚ and Africa and many others more. Two that have some similarities and differences are the French and Chinese. In the France and Chinese Cinderella story a beautiful young girl suffers a lot and is very badly mistreated but at the end
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Every little girl‚ at some point in their childhood‚ dreams of being whisked away from their mundane lives by a charming prince and have their happily ever after.[i] Fairy tales like Snow White‚ Rapunzel‚ Sleaping Beauty‚ and Cinderella are told in some form or another to practically everyone in the world‚ and with good reason. These stories combine the universal desire for a better life with the hope of finding true love. But the fairy tales always end with the prince and newfound princess getting
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Starnes English 252 January 24‚2011 Despondently Ever After… In the familiar more traditional version‚ Cinderella is a poor maid girl that‚ with the help of fairy godmother‚ gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love‚ get married‚ and live happily ever after‚ and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark comedic poem Cinderella‚ Anne Sexton forces the reader to examine this question. Utilizing literary devices such as tone‚ imagery‚ and
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Comparing and Contrasting Cinderella Stories By: Andi Borchers P4 How many Cinderella stories do you think there are? There is over 900 of them! But right now I’m only going to compare\contrast 3 stories called‚ “Ashenputtle”‚ “Yeh-Shen”‚ and “The Algonquin Cinderella”. Plus 1 poem‚ “Interview”. All of these stories‚ not the poem‚ are from long ago! Yet‚ the poem is a modern poem! Here is all of the compare/contrast I’m going to do. The similarities in some of these stories except the poem are
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Charles Perrault’s Cinderella comes complete with a classic fairy tale ending. The slipper fits and Cinderella marries the prince. Thus‚ the reader infers that he lives "happily ever after." When a tale’s ending is so basic it is tempting for a reader to consider if Cinderella lived a truly happy life. Lynne McFall contemplates this idea in Pig Happiness. Pig Happiness contemplates whether a life is truly happy in some different circumstances. The scenario that fits Cinderella the best would be the
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Dan Ledden English 102 September 29th‚ 2015 Professor Schleicher Disney’s Cinderella vs The Brothers Grimm The story of Cinderella is a very well-known folk tale that dates back centuries. Today‚ most people know the tale from the popular Disney movie made in the early 1950’s. This movie did do a pretty good job of capturing the overall theme of the original folk-tale; however‚ there are many differing factors between this version and the older version to which I’ll be comparing it (the Brothers
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Comparison essay: “Cinderella” stories This assignment requires you to compare (meaning compare or contrast) two versions of the best known and most ubiquitous of all folk tales‚ the story of Cinderella. The two best known European versions of this tale are in your coursepack‚ those of Perrault and the Grimms. The coursepack also includes several other versions of the tale‚ selected from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. You can also locate your own version(s) of the story on the internet‚ in
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There is nothing Cinderella wants more than the prince. A picture beside her bed that she touches herself too at night‚ there is nothing her father or her step-mother and step-sister could give her‚ that would satisfy her besides the palace life. One of her step-sister‚ Ivy is already married‚ and it is her step-mother duty to get her other daughter Rose‚ a wealthy man that would bring the back to the court lifestyle. When the prince declares to hold two balls‚ in which from then he would find a
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