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- By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) 'Cinderella' is, of course, a classic fairy story, a 'rags to riches' tale about a kind-hearted girl who suffers various hardships only to marry the prince of the kingdom.
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Mar 13, 2015 · Cinderella and her prince—live happily forever after, a rags-to-riches story. Even if Cinderella herself is of noble origin (as in some of the earliest versions), she is able to rise out...
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Apr 21, 2024 · One of the reasons for its success is probably the simplicity of the plot with the riches-to-rags-to-riches scheme. Another important reason is the high number of themes. Many of them are so universal that almost anybody could identify with the title character and her situation.
May 25, 2018 · The Vermont researchers describe the six story shapes behind more than 1700 English novels as: 1. Rags to riches – a steady rise from bad to good fortune. 2. Riches to rags – a fall from good...
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- The Cinderella Story Structure
Cinderella Is From China
Although we think of Cinderella as a quintessential European fairytale, it originates from China. If you’ve ever read the novel Chinese Cinderella, this renders the title a little moot! The Chinese title is Ye Xian(English speakers can approximate the sound by saying ‘Ye Shen’). The plot originated in the 5th century, which makes it about 1500 years old. This is a tale from the end of the ancient world, and marks the very beginning of when stories began to be written down. (Known also as the...
What happens in Ye Xian?
1. Cinderella has a golden fish in a pond. 2. She likes to go to the pond and talk to this fish, imagining it’s her dead mother. 3. Her tears mingle with the water in the pond. 4. She lives with a wicked stepmother who hates her, and as an act of cruelty the mother kills the beloved fish/spirit mother, cooks it and serves it up to Cinderella who is made to eat it. 5. An old travelling man happens by and says, “Do not fear, the bones of the fish have great power.” He tells her to take them and...
How did Ye Xian make it to Europe?
The story which later became Cinderella makes its way from China across to Europe along the silk roads, together with the silks, spices and diseases. Marco Polo was famously one of the first Europeans to penetrate China. He returned to Venice in 1290. We can see the beginnings of the earliest Cinderella stories in Europe from the early 1300s.
Is Cinderella really that good?
Cinderella and her fairy godmother can also be coded as models for modern consumerism, exhibiting ideals which are rapidly losing tract as we head further into a climate crisis: The Screenprism video below depicts Cinderella as a trauma victim, focusing on the Disney version.
Some stories are overt retellings and re-visionings of the Cinderella fairy-tale; these are easy to spot because they often have Cinderella in their title or in their marketing blurb. There are many other stories which make use not of the Cinderella plot per so, but of the typical ‘Cinderella story structure’. Many other stories use a basic Cindere...
Cinderella has a typical initial situation in a fairy tale: the hero loses his/her identity and becomes a ‘nobody’. The motif is found in fairy tales all over the world, and also in the Bible story of Moses. The Cinderella-structure is a linear story in which the boy becomes a man/girl becomes a woman. There’s no going back to where the hero starte...
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Apr 19, 2021 · “Rags to Riches” stories had long appealed in North America. In postwar Britain, a weariness with rationing and austerity helps to explain women’s delight in transformations and the idea...
Mar 15, 2022 · Most of us think of the 1950 Disney adaptation of Cinderella when asked about this favored fairy tale. But versions of the “rags to riches” story involving an oppressed young woman and a shoe date back to Greek and Roman times.
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