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This paper compares the film "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" and Grimm's fairy tale, "Cinderella", with the emphasis on the plot of the film. It discusses the similarities of the two stories, with both title characters orphans, living with oppressive family members, made to cook and clean, and using magical powers to escape their miserable lives. It also expands on their cultural differences, Harry Potter as a contemporary story and Cinderella from another era.

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""Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" begins with Harry being left on the doorstep of a middle-class Englishman. Mr Dursley by Albus Dumbledore the head of a wizardry academy called, Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall who teaches at Hogwarts and ..."

Tags:Harry Potter, Cinderella, fairy tale

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In this article, the writer discusses the Cinderella fairy tale and its origins and history, explaining its impact and significance. The writer looks at the disturbing elements in fairy tales. The paper focuses on movie versions of Cinderella and includes an annotated bibliography.

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"The wonder and enchantment of fairy tales is an element of childhood that many of us remember fondly. Whether these tales were read to us by apparent as a bedtime ritual enjoyed in our own reading or seen on the silver screen fairy tales appeal to the child's sense of the magical. The fairy tales that we heard and read as children are not the authentic early versions however. Surprisingly many fairy tales started out as much more violent and disturbing stories than they are today."

Tags:Cinderella, fairy tale, French, Chinese, Perrault, movie

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This paper reviews the three movies "Ever After", "Pretty Woman" and Disney's "Cinderella", comparing the similarities and analyzing the meaning behind each one while relating it to the classic story of "Cinderella".

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"In the video versions of the "Cinderella" story the viewer can see the comparisons that are evident throughout each movie. The three movies, "Ever After", "Pretty Woman" and Disney's "Cinderella" are each enchanting and delicate in there own way and each offering their own unique version of the classic fairy tale "Cinderella". The story of "Cinderella" dates back several centuries and the video versions are modern, the eldest being Disney's "Cinderella" dated 1950. I will take a closer look at the above movies and compare them according to the "Nine Variants of Cinderella," and then apply what the "Cinderella" fairy tale represents to the viewer and whether or not it is relevant in today's society."

Tags:cinderella, disney, fairy, godmother, pretty, woman

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This paper considers the story of Cinderella as a "perfect" fairytale. The author argues that its widespread popularity across so many different cultures suggests that this is the case. The paper claims that this popularity with both children and adults suggests that the "work" that is done by the story of Cinderella is one that is important to many societies.

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"Scholars often contend that there is only one story that has ever been told and that all of our epics, sonnets, tabloids, novels and fairy tales are simply a variation on this single theme, which is the story of the quest. While one might argue that such reductionism is a little extreme, this quest story that is the story of something that has been lost and must be found and of the dangers and difficulties faced by the one who is on the quest is arguably a fundamental..."

Tags:Cinderella, fairytale, structuralism

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This paper compares and contrasts three versions of Cinderella; the fairy tales by Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, and the poem by Anne Sexton, focusing on tone and characterization.

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"The fact that three different authors-Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm and Anne Sexton-all chose to tell the folk tale of Cinderella in their own way is not surprising, given the observation of English children's book expert, Percy Muir, that Cinderella is still the prime nursery favourite among all fairy-tales. The humble motherless Cinderella must live with her wicked stepmother and her two daughters all of whom torment her and assay to keep her from ever having a better life. While the story is roughly..."

Tags:Cinderella, Perrault, Sexton, Brothers Grimm, tone, characterization, Ashputtel, Cendrillon

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This paper compares and contrasts Grimm's fairy tale, "Cinderella" with the movie, "Shrek", discussing the similarities and differences and the different societies the two tales emerged from.

Tags:Grimm, Cinderella, Shrek, beauty, fairy tale

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This paper analyzes the Anne C. Bernstein's article "Women in Stepfamilies: The Fairy Godmother, the Wicked Witch, and Cinderella Reconstructed" which parallels abusive domestic relationships in step families with the story of Cinderella and her wicked stepmother. It discusses what happens to a modern-day abused Cinderella in the real world without fairy godmothers. It looks at how the Cinderella myth has survived for historical and sociological reasons that are still existent in our culture and how women are responsible for the primary care giving in most families and feel a sexual and emotional rivalry with other women for male affection. The Cinderella story reinforces the idea of stepmothers and stepsisters as wicked and avenging, rather than potential allies, in the struggle to develop a new family. Ultimately, all the participants in a new family must discuss the issues raised by the fairy tale.

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"Bernstein traces this discomfort to the stepmother-stepdaughter connection evidenced in Cinderella. However, she nuances the simplicity of the fairy tale, not stating that both mother and daughter are he receptacles of cultural norms of femininity. "Having once been a girl herself," and assuming a certain level of feminine knowledge, a stepmother may be more apt to attempt to parent the girl before the girl is ready than she might be in the case of a boy. A girl may be used to being her "real" mother's confidant and be angry at the intrusion of a stepmother into her relationship with her custodial mother. She may see a stepmother as a rival to her mother; even after the divorce, even after her own mother has died."

Tags:abusive, domestic, relationships, stepdaughter, stepmother

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This paper explains that "Cinderella" is so much a part of our collective conscious that just the word Cinderella conjures up a life magically transformed. The author points out that certain values, built into Perrault's version, have been carried forward through the centuries: (1) For "proper" young women, who aspire to the nobility by attracting "The Man", the proper thing to do is to be "nice", docile and servile to those with power regardless of their treatment of you and (2) there is nothing Cinderella can do to change her unpleasant situation, to get a fair deal within her newly expanded family. The paper relates that, today, psychologist use the term Cinderella complex to describe the assumption that if a person puts up with great difficulties and abuse at the hands of those "who know what is best for her or him", she or he ultimately will be 'discovered', 'rewarded' or 'rescued' by the film industry, heaven or a prince or princess.

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"Cinderella, in its western form, has consistently been rewritten and analyzed since Perrault first published "Cendrillon" in France in 1697. Robert Samber first translated it into English in 1729. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm included it in "Kinder- und Hausmarchen", the first edition of which was published in 1812, the last in 1857. The composer Gioachino Rossini turned it into the opera "La Cenerentola" in 1817, Rodgers and Hammerstein into a musical theater production, and it has been the subject of many films, most notably the 1950 Disney animated film "Cinderella", a 1955 film "The Glass Slipper" starring Leslie Caron, and a 1960 gender change in "Cinderfella", starring Jerry Lewis. "

Tags:perrault, grimm, values, complex, cinderfella

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This paper explains the origin of the Cinderella story in the Middle Ages and its spread to other parts of the world in various versions such as Italian Charles Perrault glass slipper story about "Cendrillon" from the mid-1600s and Mexican De Paola's story of Adelita. Next, the author relates that these English and the Mexican versions are similar in plot, reflect the standard way of life experienced by common people and were first transmitted orally. However, the paper concludes there are differences in the names, characters, celebration and objects leading to the main character, in the way the story is written with Perrault's as a narrative and de Paola's as a play and in the basic beliefs and practices revealed in the story.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Perrault's Version of Cinderella
De Paola's Version of Cinderella
Similarities between Perrault's and de Paola's Versions
Differences between Perrault's and de Paola's Versions
Conclusion

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"Somewhere in South America, however, more specifically in Mexico, Cinderella is more akin to the typical lifestyle and nature of the natives. Her name is not Cinderella but Adelita. Like Cinderella of England, Adelita of Mexico is the true daughter of a good, knowledgeable and fair maiden named as Adela in the Mexican setting. However, Adela soon dies, and she leaves her daughter Adelita in the hands of her father. Like the story of Perrault, her father marries another woman and then dies. He leaves her, then, to his entrusted servant named Esperanza, who acted as Adelita's caregiver since she was a child. But the cold stepmother and stepdaughters would rather use Adelita as their housekeeper instead, so they force Esperanza to leave the house and put Adelita in charge of the household chores. "

Tags:shoe shawl, fairy godmother, fiesta, spanish phrases

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This paper examines and analyzes the differences and similarities between the traditional American version of Cinderella, based upon Perrault, Grimm, and Disney influences, and the original Chinese version of Cinderella, which was written in the ninth century.