“FAIRY-TALE COMPARISON ESSAY” TWO CINDERELLA TALES COMPARED Saudia Mohamed Professor Dr. Jennifer Orme CENG 222 (410) 3 October 2014 Saudia Mohamed Mohamed 1 Professor Dr. Jennifer Orme CENG 222 (410) 3 October 2014 A champion amongst the most well known stories ever created, Cinderella and its complete story of the human heart has identifies with youthful and old for a respectable period of time. Mixtures on Cinderella's myth appear in folktales in pretty much all
There are many differences and similarities between the two versions of the Cinderella stories (Zimbabwean & French), they both face many obstacles, have wicket evil stepsisters/mothers but they also both end happily ever after. The differences in the Zimbabwean story is that the mean and evil sister went through the obstacles before the kind Cinderella did. When going through the obstacles she would come across an older women that tells her how to act in order for her to get through the obstacles
Stepmothers: Stepping Away From Warts, Cackles, and Wickedness The essay Reading Fairy Tales Maria Tartar suggests “There is something to be said for the view that fairy tales have no stable meaning as well as for the views that are charged with meaning, but there are numerous other positions and possibilities between these two extremes” (J.D. Stahl pg. 284). Children in the 18th and 19th century grew up with the beloved fairy tales of triumphant protagonists—whether princess or pauper—and the falling
think that feminists are against motherhood and families in general. This impression many people have of feminism, according to Elaine Tuttle Hansen, is “so ingrained . . . that in an anthology of writing from the women’s liberation movement . . . essays on ‘family’ are prefaced with this disclaimer: ‘We are not against love, against men and women living together, against having children. What we are against is the role women play once they become wives and mothers’” (5; qtd. in Hansen 5). However
states in her essay “Cinderella: Saturday Afternoon at the Movies” that the ultimate goal for a woman is to obtain a husband that will provide her with the stability and the security status that she desires and that women obtain their goal by flaunting their beauty. Today’s audiences indeed still accept this as the goal for women as we watch many movies and television shows whose plotlines consist of plane jane’s working hard to make themselves beautiful and stunning in order to attract a man. In the