The story of Cinderella is well known all across the world and most countries have their own versions of the fairytale. While each story might have unique differences, they all have major character and story archetypes that play key parts to exemplify the major themes. An archetype can be any type recurring theme, symbol or pattern throughout a story. For example, the German retelling of Cinderella, titled Ashputtle, has many archetypes that play off the theme. The authors, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, use specific archetypal narrative patterns such as a greedy, cruel relative who behaves unfairly, a series of tests, often impossible, that a character must pass or a just end that rewards good and punishes evil to illustrate major themes of love, …show more content…
After enduring cruel treatment from her own family for years, Ashputtle finally gets her own happily ever after and her family members receive what they deserve: cruel punishment. In the story, on page 858, the text states, “On the day of Ashputle’s wedding, the two sisters came and tried to ingratiate themselves and shared in her happiness…both sisters were punished with blindness to the end of their days for being so wicked and false” (Grimm). The stepsisters were so forbidding and cruel towards Ashputtle that in the end, receive what they deserve which doesn’t happen in some of the other Cinderella stories worldwide. The Grimm brothers chose to make their retelling of the story have an unusual ending (most just end with Cinderella getting married) and in doing so, unintentionally exemplified the archetypal narrative pattern of a just end that rewards good and punishes evil. But this doesn’t just appear once in the story. When Ashputtle flees the celebration one night to avoid her family, she leaves behind a shoe. This shoe is then picked up by the prince, who then searches throughout the entire kingdom for the owner of the beautiful shoe so that he can marry her. When he arrives at Ashputtle’s home, the stepmother insists that her two daughters cut off parts of their feet to try to fit their wide and unsightly
In “Cinderella”, by the Grimm Brothers, the authors utilize a multitude of fairy tale genre conventions such as frequent usage of rhetorical devices, magical creatures, and the classic “Happy Ever After” fairy tale ending, to emphasize the importance of genuineness and the dangers of pursuing superficiality. The authors use several rhetorical devices such as symbolism and juxtaposition
In Pierce Brown's "Red Rising" trilogy, two important archetypes stand out: the threshold guardian and the ruler. The threshold guardian is a character who serves as an obstacle that the protagonist must overcome to achieve their goal, and the ruler is a character who has power and control over others. These two archetypes play an important role in showing how abusive corruption deprives worthy men and women of equal opportunities. The threshold guardian archetype is exemplified in the Gold society of "Red Rising," where the Golds are the ruling class and hold all the power.
Red Rising, the debut novel by Pierce Brown, is a science fiction story set in a future where society is divided into a strict color-coded caste system. The protagonist, Darrow, is a member of the lowest caste, the Reds, who are forced to work as miners on the planet Mars. The novel is filled with archetypes that are central to the plot and characters. In particular, the call to adventure, tragic lover, and mentor archetypes illustrate how fear can blind people when facing hard decisions, causing them to act out of character and break the rules.
Determination in “Cinderella” “Cinderella”, the original fairytale, is found in a collection of stories created by the Grimm brothers. The story of “Cinderella” is used in order to display and teach children and adults a way of living. This fairytale reflects values such as perseverance and determination. Cinderella, the protagonist, is an outcast her family, as her father is her only blood relative. She is forced to do housework and is not allowed to take part fun activities or share luxuries with her stepsisters.
Modern authors used archetypes to change Rapunzel from the European fairytale tradition by talking about how she was gifted with such magical hair and how dreadfully she lived her life prisoned in a castle. For example, when the text describes Rapunzel it shows the audience that despite having long, gorgeous hair and being charming, she is a damsel in distress since she spends her days imprisoned in a castle. “Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold”. This is important to the audience because it
Similarly, in Walt Disney’s “Cinderella,” she is also treated horribly, and awarded a beautiful outfit by her fairy godmother, letting her attend a ball, encountering her true love. Cinderella gets married to the prince, however, the step-sisters are forgiven and live with Cinderella at the castle unlike the original story. Both stories have many similarities, especially in the climax. However, the
Death is Usually considered a bad thing to be lurking around your daily life but in these instances it is just another common thing that occurs daily. In Legend by Marie Lu, a girl is stealing and selling of stuff to try to earn enough money to buy the cure for the disease that her brother has. In Scythe by Neal Shusterman, The main characters have been selected to be trained as Scythes who are basically people who run around killing people because they were randomly chosen. The dystopian novels Legend and Scythe both share the similarity that they use the Hero Archetype for the main characters and use Dystopian controls, to establish the common theme that First, Marie Lu uses the characters mood and actions to help develop the theme. In
Did you know that Cinderella is a story used all around the world and there were always villains involved to all Cinderella stories? Who are the antagonists in the Cinderella stories and what motif or archetype in the stories reveals the culture it originated from? In a few of the most known stories in the world, Cinderella and Yeh Shen, the antagonists, the stepmother and stepsisters, have a lot of characteristics that are similar and different. One way the antagonists in the story have in similar is that the stepmothers are both very jealous of Cinderella’s and Yeh Shen’s goodness and beauty.
Perrault’s version of Cinderella’s ending is happier and includes forgiveness. Although the step sisters were cruel and treated Cinderella horribly she forgave them in the end and even found good husbands for them, and they all lived happily ever after. You can see from this that this story is intended to teach a moral lesson of forgiveness and kindness like I explained above. In Perrault’s version you can be terrible and unpleasant but you will be forgiven because that’s part of life. The Grimm brothers however have a different point of view on that matter.
She longs for love and affection. She finds it when at the ball, but when she has to leave, she leaves in a hurry and one of the slippers that she is wearing gets left behind at the ball and the Prince finds and starts to look for her. Even though they were separated for short periods of time they still find each other in the end. The Prince takes her to his palace and they get married. This general plot stays the same for all versions of the story, but the differences between Disney’s Cinderella and Grimm’s Cinderella are striking, and they deserve through examination.
Kelly Link’s “The Cinderella Games” is different from other fairy tales referenced in the story because “The Cinderella Game” has an untold story inside. Link presented the story as a fairytale but as the story went on she gave the story a dark and twisted message. Even though, “The Cinderella Games” has multiple references to classical fairytales, according to Bettelheim it is not considered a fairytale due to the fact that it is missing a fairytale ending and a sense of fantasy. In normal fairytales, there is just a princess and prince and they all live happily ever after together but that is not the case in this story.
Once the prince is finished with the two evil sisters, Cinderella comes out and while taking off her dirty shoe, her foot fits perfectly into the shoe. The prince and Cinderella are finally together, the prince knows Cinderella was the mystery women he had been searching for all along since her foot fit into the shoe. Cinderella and the prince return to his kingdom and live happily ever after. While the Disney story and the fairy tale version of the stories both end with happy endings the fairy tale is written with much more graphic images than the Disney
The psychologist, Carl Jung, says that universal characters reside within the collective unconscious of people around the world. These characters are called archetypes. According to Jung, every story has similar archetypes to each other. The Pearl, written by John Steinbeck, also has archetypes. There are many different archetypes in the novella, The Pearl.
Disney vs. Grimm Fairytales (Rough Draft) Fairytales have majorly altered throughout history in a variety of disturbing ways. Grimm’s fairytales were known as gruesome parables that spoke of harsh realities and were told to people of all ages. Disney is identified by their hopeful and imaginary stories aimed at the audience of children. The reasoning behind this stark contrast of fairy tales is for numerous diverse explanations.
DISNEY SEXISM In society, there are gender roles which put each sex in stereotypical figures. These roles affect the way how we speak, dress and act. In general, women expected to behave feminine such as being polite and fragile and on the other hand men are expected to be aggressive and stronger. All these roles are over exaggerated in Disney 's women and men figures. When we look at the society, children are the ones who are more likely to being manipulated by elements such as media.