Cultural Versions Of Cinderella

"Cinderella" is perhaps the most recognized fairy tale in history, one of the few that spans across generations and cultures. Every prominent culture in the world tells some similar version of this story of a poor girl going from rags to riches; over 700 versions have been accounted for worldwide. In America, numerous authors have penned their own version of the classic folktale. One of these is Tanith Lee, a prolific writer of stories for young adults. Lee cleverly found a way to include all of the traditional elements of the classic "Cinderella" tale, but added a new twist: Cinderella, or the character similar to her in this story, had malicious intentions for the prince, and her purpose throughout the tale was a malevolent one: revenge.

Cinderella also complies with aesthetic sense. When Cinderella is seen as a servant, she appears as a poor, dirty, servant that is weak. When Cinderella arrives at the ball, she looks as if she comes from money and is very attractive, catching the prince's eye. Since Cinderella was only known as a servant, her step-mother and step-sisters did not think she could have been the women at the ball, since she was not allowed to go and she was viewed as a poor servant. Furthermore, her appearance of being a poor servant would conflict with the prince's image of royalty and wealth, making them incompatible from a social stand point.

Cinderella was being good and pious, but Cinderella was not “The maiden went every day to her mother’s grave and wept” (Grimms 80). Later, her father bring another wife at home, the new wife had two daughters, and they hate Cinderella. It was beginning to Cinderella’s crossing the first threshold. “Is the stupid creature to sit in the same room with us? said they; those who eat food must earn it. She is nothing but a kitchen-maid!” (Grimms 80). They were taken Cinderella’s dress and made a kitchen-maid. She got hard works early in the morning through late night, but she did not complained her stepmother. Every night she went to her mother’s grave, and cried. The each day withe wish birds came to grave, watching her and listen her whatever she

The little bird that sits in the tree is somehow magical as it gives Cinderella what she wishes. Upon learning of the three day festival where the prince is to choose a bride, she begs her stepmother to go but is refused. With the assistance of the bird Cinderella attends the event. Her identity is not revealed so the price does not know who she is. Captivated by her, he attempts to find her after her abrupt departure with one gold-covered slipper left behind. The tell tale doves inform the prince of each stepsister’s falsehood until he comes to Cinderella. The slipper fits perfectly and he recognizes the girl as his true love. Confirmed by the little doves, the prince marries Cinderella (Grimm).

Each person in the world has heard of Cinderella, no matter what kind of version it may be. Cinderella is the one fairy tale story that has been popular and will always be the one tale that has to be told to children. Words and story lines might be twist and turn, but in the end the knowledge of the story will be learned in similar ways. As we all know when one story is told another is created, when one is at its best then another is at its worse. One version will always be better than another, but no matter what version it might be the story will be told.

The story that most of us know as “Cinderella” actually has a lot of different versions. These different versions contain several elements that are similar, but yet even more elements that differ from one another. The three main difference between all the different versions of this story are the characters, how others treat the main character, and the setting in which these stories take place.

In the essay, “The Rise of Perrault’s Cinderella”, by Bonnie Cullen, and the “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”, by Elisabeth Panttaja both Illustrates similar ideas of the Cinderella fairy tale. In “The Rise of Perrault’s Cinderella”, Cullen touches base of the many different Cinderella themes throughout different countries. Panttaja alternatively addresses the backstory of the Cinderella theme in “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior”. Although Cullen and Panttaja have similarities between their two essays, they also have some differences. While both authors address the contrasting Cinderella themes, Cullen focuses more on the contrasted themes of different narratives from different countries, while Panttaja focuses on the mother’s

There is proof of this in almost all Cinderella versions, even in stories originating from Scotland or Portugal. Even in the Native American version, which encourages honesty, there are still traces of prejudice in favor of beauty and rank. "She was very beautiful and gentle… they were jealous...so they treated her very cruelly. They clothed her in rags... and they cut off her long black hair; and they burned her face with coals from the fire.", showing that the Native Americans still cared about beauty and the archetype of rags symbolizing ugliness because they are worn by the poor. In another variation, "Katie Woodencloak", a princess runs away from her abusive stepmother and travels to another kingdom atop a bull. She is dressed in a wooden

Along with the concept of Cinderella, the movie Cinderfella establishes this theme in a little different way that changes the dynamic of what makes up a Cinderella movie. Most of the gender roles are reversed and a guy named Fella is left with his stepmom and two wicked stepbrothers, Maximillian and Rubert. To gain more money, the stepmother throws a ball to honor a Princess, so she can marry one of her sons. During the movie, the stepmother wants to know where her deceased husband hid the money for Fella and Maximillian proposed the

I will kill him! Why do I have such simple-minded servants?” The Prince questioned, enraged by the man’s stupidity. The man simply nodded and walked back to the ballroom when the Prince dismissed him. Shocked by what I had heard, I silently tiptoed back into the ballroom. To my surprise, when I looked for the Prince, I found that he was dancing with Cinderella! Cinderella looked gorgeous in her beautiful white dress, surely made by a Fairy Godmother. I know because it’s the same every single time. Cinderella procrastinates and her Fairy Godmother comes to her rescue. Cinderella and the Prince danced all throughout the night. Suddenly, at twelve, she ran out of the ballroom, leaving one of her white stilettos

The different features of ‘Cinderella’ is she’s a fully human rather than a cyborg. Cinderella has a fairy Godmother, both of her parents die of a sickness. While Cinders real name is actually Cinder,

The cinderella story portrays a strong young girl whose life changes drastically throughout the story. Due to an impactful event like the death of her mother and the arrival of her step mother, and sisters. Cinderella's father was never present in her life. She grew up under the rules of her evil step mother, Lady Tremaine. Drizella and Anastasia were Cinderella's new and wicked sisters who with the help of their mother, were able to turn Cinderella into a servant. There came a time when the Kings son held a ball in search for a beautiful bride. Cinderella and her "family" were invited. Cinderella was so excited. She ran to the attic and found one of her mothers dresses; her step mother rudely interrupted her, being as evil as the devil, Lady

In Charles Perrault’s version of “Cinderella”, there was a man who had another wife and a young daughter who married a woman who became his second wife. She had a former husband and 2 daughters of her own. Almost immediately, the stepmother turned evil and she made Cinderella do all of the work in the house while her own daughters sat around and were pampered by Cinderella all day. One day, they received a letter saying that the King’s son had a ball and invited all persons of fashion to it. Cinderella’s sisters made fun of her. The eldest daughter called her Cinderwench and the youngest called her Cinderella. Each sister wanted to be the most beautiful. Cinderella took care of her sisters and once they left, she was devastated and started crying when her fairy godmother saw how upset Cinderella was and told her to follow these rules. The first step was to go into the garden and get a pumpkin and return it to her godmother who scooped the inside of the pumpkin out and left the rind. With the fairy godmother’s magic, the pumpkin turned into a fine coach. Cinderella was then directed to go into the mouse trap where she found six mice and the mice turned into horses, rat into a coachman, lizards into footmen, and Cinderlla’s clothes would be completely

Throughout the story of Cinderella, the main problem that the story is based off of is how Cinderella was the under the control of her evil and jealous stepmother and sisters would suffer, while on the other hand, when she was with her father before the stepmother, and the prince later on in the story, Cinderella is happy. This interpretation can be examined as a way to poke fun on the idea of a matriarchal society, and how its better to move towards a patriarchal society. In the scene in the beginning part of movie where they start to introduce the characters as they currently are in the story, there is obvious signs of mistreatment of Cinderella. Unlike the other two girls, her step sisters, who were wearing fancy, expensive but guantly looking

She gave her so much work that it would be nearly impossible for cinderella to attend the ball. Cinderella knew if she even wanted a chance at going to the ball that she would have to get to work. While Cinderella did her chores my mother, sister, and I started to get ready for the ball we did everything from hair to makeup and mother walked into my room with a beautiful Emerald velvet gown with shimmery crystals lining the bottom. When I tried it on it looked almost as Whimsical as the clouds. as time went by we were astonished to hear Cinderella working in the sewing room. we walked over to the room only to see the sight of Cinderella and a beautiful gown it was once her mother's. my mother said “ you cannot go to the ball the chores can not possibly be done”