Cinderella teaches the morals of kindness towards all, forgiving others for doing wrong, and never letting bad things ruin your heart. The themes of the story are good versus evil and luck changing your life.
When Perrault wrote his version of Cinderella, he said that the most important moral of the story is that no endowment can guarantee success and happiness, and that sometimes a godparent, a member of society who has committed to care for someone outside his or her own family, needs to get involved.
The central message of the movie is very biblical: never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. This echoes the only message found in every book of the Bible: “Fear not.” Why should we not be afraid?
When her fairy godmother appears and magically transformers her reality to a dream, leaving the prince madly in love with her beauty and character. In the movie Cinderella, archetypes are used to teach the lesson that good always triumphs over evil.
An abusive stepmother and two stepdaughters are invited to a royal ball, leaving behind their daughter and sister whom they call Cinderella. Her fairy godmother appears and grants Cinderella's wish to go to the ball, magically providing a coach, servants, a dress, and perfectly fitted glass slippers.
Story tellers, writers, and collectors have used the tale as a social criticism, as a tool to teach lessons or morals, as a tale to entertain in which audiences create sympathetic bonds with characters, as a method of preserving culture, as Page 3 a medium to express intellect, and for many other purposes and devices.
“Cinderella” reflects these customs. It is a story about domestic labour, female violence and friendship and the oppression of servitude. Perhaps most significantly, it is a story about female desire in a world where women were denied any role in society.
Cinderella wasn't aggressive, she remained kind, even to her cruel stepsisters and stepmother. She wasn't just “saved” by her prince, she remained kind, and the prince loved her for that. The prince wasn't the main part of the story, it was about a child abused for years and finally getting her happy ending.
It gives hope that some supposed commoner like Cinderella can rise and become Queen. The story shows kindness and charity, both through Cinderella's kindness to the mice and the birds that others see as vermin to the charity of the Fairy Godmother who gives to those who deserve it.
What is the dark and original story of Cinderella?
But do you know what the original story was like? If you thought the story started the same as Disney made it, then you are right! Cinderella's mother dies and then her father marries her evil stepmother, adding her and Cinderella's evil stepsisters to the family. Lucky for Cinderella, her father doesn't die.
Without a doubt, one of this character's top traits is her positivity. She did not have it easy, but through it all, she remained sweet, optimistic, and smiley. In fact, her most popular song, A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes, is all about dreaming, wishing, and never giving up on that.
Cinderella is easy to like too, but she doesn't just sing to the animals and have them help her with her chores. She protects them from Lucifer, feeds them, clothes them, and gives them a better life, even as her dreams for a better life remain just dreams.
Cinderella is humble, meek, kind, and obedient. Her stepmother and stepsisters are cruel, condescending, and deceitful. While other versions focus on the stepsisters' ugliness, Perrault's version of the story does not call attention to the physical appearances of the stepsisters.
What is feminist criticism in the story Cinderella?
When the tale is read under the lens of feminism, it is found that women are always in need. And this need makes women greedy and evil. Just like the stepmother of Cinderella. She got married to a rich widower for the ownership of his wealth.
Throughout Cinderella, there is much attention to how much material wealth one has, characters in opposition to each other because of a power struggle, inequalities within society, characters who dream of a better life and class warfare between the rich and the poor.
Cinderella, like the mice, is a kind hearted individual who looks for the best in Page 15 Page | 11 every situation. She knows what is right and lives the life of a centered and focused individual. Despite her condition she stays cheerful and positive. The mice represent the person the Cinderella longs to become.
In "Cinderella," Cinderella is born into the upper class but is forced to become a lowly servant when her two malicious stepsisters move in. She ends up marrying the prince, which allows her to escape her life of servitude.
With Cinderella, however, they experi- ence a positive development: modesty and humility are extolled and rewarded. Showing courage leads to resolution and reward; poverty, contempt and degra- dation do not last forever, and pain and suffering always come to an end.
Even at the height of her distress, after being left behind from the ball and in tears, she shows kindness -- when an old woman asks for a glass of milk or something to eat, she sets aside her own problems to help someone in need. And her kindness is rewarded as she is soon after swept off and on her way to the ball.
Having compassion and overflowing goodness toward people, even in the face of maltreatment, is one of Cinderella's main points and is the most crucial lesson. Throughout the film, she remains kind-hearted even in the face of oppression, and she does not let her environment change who she truly is inside.
The problem in the story Cinderella was that her stepmother and stepsisters treated her cruelly and unfairly, forcing her to do all of the household chores while they enjoyed themselves and lived a life of luxury.
Answer: Cinderella wants to go to the ball, but her stepmother prevents her from going by giving her more chores than she can complete, so her fairy godmother helps her. The conflict is external, Cinderella versus her step mother, so it is Man vs Man.
Climax: The Grand Duke arrives at Ella's house (while she is locked in the attic) to try on the slipper on the last of the maidens. This brings all the important characters face to face for the final confrontation and the resolution of the conflict.
