Cinderella Research Paper

Cinderella is one of the most famous fairy tales written by The Brothers Grimm. As we know the style of Cinderella is a fairy tale that adverts to a happy ending. Despite the trials and tribulations, Cinderella was able to defeat the ways of her evil stepmother and stepsisters and marry a prince. Some of the parts in Cinderella are connect by the idea of karma and Christianity. Cinderella’s wicked stepsisters tried to tear her down by being malicious, but in the end their karma came back around and the pigeon pecked out an eye from each of them. The evil stepmother made Cinderella be a maid. Making her get up before daybreak and work hard from morning to evening. She forced her to sleep by the ashes that is why Cinderella was so dirty.

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In the story words such as “beautiful with fair faces” and “evil and dark hearts,” were shown to portray that although her stepsisters were beautiful, they were very mean and cruel. The uses of “the word ashes throughout the text was related to ill treatment”(Alcantud-Diaz). For example, “I have scattered a bowl of lentils into the ashes for you”(Grimm). Words like dust and dirt were used to describe the living conditions she had to live in. “She slept by hearth in the ashes”(Grimm), because her step-mother and step-sister’s did not provide a bed for Cinderella. Cinderella also uses the animals such as the white bird to portray Christianity and a spirit from heaven, most likely her guardian angel to answer her prayers. Cinderella cried out “ Throw gold and silver down to me. Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her” (Grimm). The hazel tree was a symbol of her mother who told her before her death, “Dear child, remain pious and good, and then the good God will always protect you and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you”

There is also when her father rushes and gets remarried to her evil step mother. Cinderella was treated the worse by her father, because Cinderella’s father allowed his new wife and other children to mistreat his daughter, and overlooked the vile ways Cinderella endured from them. Cinderella’s father also stereotyped her. The father went along with the evil wife’s mistreatment and saying “There is only a deformed little Cinderella from my first wife, but she cannot possibly be the bride” (Grimm). Denying her the opportunity to go to the festival and seek happiness. However, the prince behavior was good and he did not stereotype Cinderella. He did not give up on finding his true bride,and eventually when he found her he did not turn away from her because she was dusty and dirty. He did not let her physical appearance of being dusty and dirty change his mind about Cinderella. This represents “not judging a book by its cover”. In the Bible , God said, “But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart” (1 Samuel 16:7).

The main focal point of Cinderella is to show that good will always prevail over evil, even in the most impossible situations. This is shown through Cinderella who is described as “ pious and good”