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Essay assignment: Cinderella story is present in almost every culture representing a girl’s dream of achieving a happy and wealthy marriage. However, careful reading of some stories reveals instances of abuse and even incest. For many girls the only relief available from abusive circumstances is to marry well. In modern times, some authors present Cinderella myth in a positive light while others offer a more feminist interpretation. While contrasting the original Cinderella fairy tale by brothers Grimm with different modern interpretations, what are the striking differences between the fantasy world and the reality the authors allude to? While analyzing the attached poems (see below) and a fairy tale by brothers Grimm, offer your own vision of the “Cinderella complex” —an unconscious desire to be taken care by others. Has it been harmful for women or could it sometimes be a helpful fantasy? Use quotations from all the assigned poems including Sexton’s “Cinderella” to support your points. Include quotations from Brothers Grimm “Cinderella” as well.
Abused CinderellaCinderella was a nice galAlways did what she was toldPut others before herselfCinderella had lots of hopes and dreamsOne day in the town she heard of the ballCinderella wanted to goReally really badHer step mom gave her troubleHer sisters were okBut she never wentBecause no one caredPoor Cinderella criedDreams really don’t come trueFairytales are fakeCinderella never found her princeShe never really went to any ballShe lost all her hopes and dreams in lifeCinderella never got a granted wishPoor CinderellaTrue love never found herWhen she was oldCinderella died an old maidWhen Cinderella went to heavenShe was treated like a real princessAngels planned a ball for herAnd made her a pretty white gownJesus danced with herThen he took her by the handAnd led her to her handsome chosen princeIt was all worth the shattered hopesAnd dreams in lifeTo have a fairytale ending in heavenby Bella RavenstarI Am Not That CinderellaI’m not that Cinderella,I’m not right all the time,And I’m not gonna sit in a cold, dusty old attic,Just waiting and waiting for that someone to come and find me.And then one day I realized,The fairytale life just isn’t the life for me.I’m not that Cinderella.I know that one day will be the day I’ll find someone who loves me,who needs me,Who wants me for my heart and soul,and not just a pretty face,and he’s isn’t scared to show that he loves me.A one who will seethat I’m pleased who I am,I’m not that Cinderella.I can chase my own monsters,Out of my room.I can dream my own dreams,But maybe not accomplish them.And my knight in shining armor,Is up-to me.I’m not that Cinderella.I don’t wanna be like anyone else,I wanna be an individual,Not like the pretty girls you see in the story books,JUST ME (:I’m not that Cinderella.by Mikaiila. S.CinderellaIf my name was CinderellaYou could be the princeI could wear my sparkling prom dressWe could fall in love the moment our eyes meetIf my name was CinderellaIf my name was CinderellaWe could have a songAnd dance in the silver moonlightYou could hold me tight and spin me in the airIf my name was CinderellaIf my name was CinderellaYou could pick me upIn your gold and diamond carriageYou could be the hero of this fairytaleAnd I could be the oneIf my name was CinderellaBut I can’t breathe, whenever you’re with me.Can you feel my heartbeat in my chestIt’s getting faster every secondTime slows down, you are better than the bestBut would you feel the sameIf my name was CinderellaI can’t breatheCause I’m not CinderellaUntil you’re here with meI’m not CinderellaYou touch my lipsI’m not CinderellaThen you show me with a kissThat I’m your Cinderellaby Loraine LotterCinderellaJacob and Wilhelm GrimmA rich man’s wife became sick, and when she felt that her end was drawing near, she called heronly daughter to her bedside and said, “Dear child, remain pious and good, and then our dearGod will always protect you, and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you.” Withthis she closed her eyes and died.The girl went out to her mother’s grave every day and wept, and she remained pious and good.When winter came the snow spread a white cloth over the grave, and when the spring sun hadremoved it again, the man took himself another wife.This wife brought two daughters into the house with her. They were beautiful, with fair faces, butevil and dark hearts. Times soon grew very bad for the poor stepchild.“Why should that stupid goose sit in the parlor with us?” they said. “If she wants to eat bread,then she will have to earn it. Out with this kitchen maid!”They took her beautiful clothes away from her, dressed her in an old gray smock, and gave herwooden shoes. “Just look at the proud princess! How decked out she is!” they shouted andlaughed as they led her into the kitchen.There she had to do hard work from morning until evening, get up before daybreak, carry water,make the fires, cook, and wash. Besides this, the sisters did everything imaginable to hurt her.They made fun of her, scattered peas and lentils into the ashes for her, so that she had to sitand pick them out again. In the evening when she had worked herself weary, there was no bedfor her. Instead she had to sleep by the hearth in the ashes. And because she always lookeddusty and dirty, they called her Cinderella.One day it happened that the father was going to the fair, and he asked his two stepdaughterswhat he should bring back for them.“Beautiful dresses,” said the one.“Pearls and jewels,” said the other.“And you, Cinderella,” he said, “what do you want?”“Father, break off for me the first twig that brushes against your hat on your way home.”So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls, and jewels for his two stepdaughters. On his way home,as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off hishat. Then he broke off the twig and took it with him. Arriving home, he gave his stepdaughtersthe things that they had asked for, and he gave Cinderella the twig from the hazel bush.Cinderella thanked him, went to her mother’s grave, and planted the branch on it, and she weptso much that her tears fell upon it and watered it. It grew and became a beautiful tree.Cinderella went to this tree three times every day, and beneath it she wept and prayed. A whitebird came to the tree every time, and whenever she expressed a wish, the bird would throwdown to her what she had wished for.Now it happened that the king proclaimed a festival that was to last three days. All the beautifulyoung girls in the land were invited, so that his son could select a bride for himself. When thetwo stepsisters heard that they too had been invited, they were in high spirits.They called Cinderella, saying, “Comb our hair for us. Brush our shoes and fasten our buckles.We are going to the festival at the king’s castle.”Cinderella obeyed, but wept, because she too would have liked to go to the dance with them.She begged her stepmother to allow her to go.“You, Cinderella?” she said. “You, all covered with dust and dirt, and you want to go to thefestival?. You have neither clothes nor shoes, and yet you want to dance!”However, because Cinderella kept asking, the stepmother finally said, “I have scattered a bowlof lentils into the ashes for you. If you can pick them out again in two hours, then you may gowith us.”The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, “You tame pigeons, youturtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:The good ones go into the pot,The bad ones go into your crop.”Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally allthe birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes. The pigeonsnodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to pick, pick,pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains into the bowl. Hardly one hour had passed beforethey were finished, and they all flew out again.The girl took the bowl to her stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would beallowed to go to the festival with them.But the stepmother said, “No, Cinderella, you have no clothes, and you don’t know how todance. Everyone would only laugh at you.”Cinderella began to cry, and then the stepmother said, “You may go if you are able to pick twobowls of lentils out of the ashes for me in one hour,” thinking to herself, “She will never be ableto do that.”The girl went through the back door into the garden, and called out, “You tame pigeons, youturtledoves, and all you birds beneath the sky, come and help me to gather:The good ones go into the pot,The bad ones go into your crop.”Two white pigeons came in through the kitchen window, and then the turtledoves, and finally allthe birds beneath the sky came whirring and swarming in, and lit around the ashes. The pigeonsnodded their heads and began to pick, pick, pick, pick. And the others also began to pick, pick,pick, pick. They gathered all the good grains into the bowls. Before a half hour had passed theywere finished, and they all flew out again.The girl took the bowls to her stepmother, and was happy, thinking that now she would beallowed to go to the festival with them.But the stepmother said, “It’s no use. You are not coming with us, for you have no clothes, andyou don’t know how to dance. We would be ashamed of you.” With this she turned her back onCinderella, and hurried away with her two proud daughters.Now that no one else was at home, Cinderella went to her mother’s grave beneath the hazeltree, and cried out:Shake and quiver, little tree,Throw gold and silver down to me.Then the bird threw a gold and silver dress down to her, and slippers embroidered with silk andsilver. She quickly put on the dress and went to the festival.Her stepsisters and her stepmother did not recognize her. They thought she must be a foreignprincess, for she looked so beautiful in the golden dress. They never once thought it wasCinderella, for they thought that she was sitting at home in the dirt, looking for lentils in theashes.The prince approached her, took her by the hand, and danced with her. Furthermore, he woulddance with no one else. He never let go of her hand, and whenever anyone else came andasked her to dance, he would say, “She is my dance partner.”She danced until evening, and then she wanted to go home. But the prince said, “I will go alongand escort you,” for he wanted to see to whom the beautiful girl belonged. However, she eludedhim and jumped into the pigeon coop. The prince waited until her father came, and then he toldhim that the unknown girl had jumped into the pigeon coop.The old man thought, “Could it be Cinderella?”He had them bring him an ax and a pick so that he could break the pigeon coop apart, but noone was inside. When they got home Cinderella was lying in the ashes, dressed in her dirtyclothes. A dim little oil-lamp was burning in the fireplace. Cinderella had quickly jumped downfrom the back of the pigeon coop and had run to the hazel tree. There she had taken off herbeautiful clothes and laid them on the grave, and the bird had taken them away again. Then,dressed in her gray smock, she had returned to the ashes in the kitchen.The next day when the festival began anew, and her parents and her stepsisters had goneagain, Cinderella went to the hazel tree and said:Shake and quiver, little tree,Throw gold and silver down to me.Then the bird threw down an even more magnificent dress than on the preceding day. WhenCinderella appeared at the festival in this dress, everyone was astonished at her beauty. Theprince had waited until she came, then immediately took her by the hand, and danced only withher. When others came and asked her to dance with them, he said, “She is my dance partner.”When evening came she wanted to leave, and the prince followed her, wanting to see intowhich house she went. But she ran away from him and into the garden behind the house. Abeautiful tall tree stood there, on which hung the most magnificent pears. She climbed as nimblyas a squirrel into the branches, and the prince did not know where she had gone. He waiteduntil her father came, then said to him, “The unknown girl has eluded me, and I believe she hasclimbed up the pear tree.The father thought, “Could it be Cinderella?” He had an ax brought to him and cut down thetree, but no one was in it. When they came to the kitchen, Cinderella was lying there in theashes as usual, for she had jumped down from the other side of the tree, had taken the beautifuldress back to the bird in the hazel tree, and had put on her gray smock.On the third day, when her parents and sisters had gone away, Cinderella went again to hermother’s grave and said to the tree:Shake and quiver, little tree,Throw gold and silver down to me.This time the bird threw down to her a dress that was more splendid and magnificent than anyshe had yet had, and the slippers were of pure gold. When she arrived at the festival in thisdress, everyone was so astonished that they did not know what to say. The prince danced onlywith her, and whenever anyone else asked her to dance, he would say, “She is my dancepartner.”When evening came Cinderella wanted to leave, and the prince tried to escort her, but she ranaway from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The prince, however, had set a trap. Hehad had the entire stairway smeared with pitch. When she ran down the stairs, her left slipperstuck in the pitch. The prince picked it up. It was small and dainty, and of pure gold.The next morning, he went with it to the man, and said to him, “No one shall be my wife exceptfor the one whose foot fits this golden shoe.”The two sisters were happy to hear this, for they had pretty feet. With her mother standing by,the older one took the shoe into her bedroom to try it on. She could not get her big toe into it, forthe shoe was too small for her. Then her mother gave her a knife and said, “Cut off your toe.When you are queen you will no longer have to go on foot.”The girl cut off her toe, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went out to theprince. He took her on his horse as his bride and rode away with her. However, they had to ridepast the grave, and there, on the hazel tree, sat the two pigeons, crying out:Rook di goo, rook di goo!There’s blood in the shoe.The shoe is too tight,This bride is not right!Then he looked at her foot and saw how the blood was running from it. He turned his horsearound and took the false bride home again, saying that she was not the right one, and that theother sister should try on the shoe. She went into her bedroom, and got her toes into the shoeall right, but her heel was too large.Then her mother gave her a knife, and said, “Cut a piece off your heel. When you are queenyou will no longer have to go on foot.”The girl cut a piece off her heel, forced her foot into the shoe, swallowed the pain, and went outto the prince. He took her on his horse as his bride and rode away with her. When they passedthe hazel tree, the two pigeons were sitting in it, and they cried out:Rook di goo, rook di goo!There’s blood in the shoe.The shoe is too tight,This bride is not right!He looked down at her foot and saw how the blood was running out of her shoe, and how it hadstained her white stocking all red. Then he turned his horse around and took the false bridehome again.“This is not the right one, either,” he said. “Don’t you have another daughter?”“No,” said the man. “There is only a deformed little Cinderella from my first wife, but she cannotpossibly be the bride.”The prince told him to send her to him, but the mother answered, “Oh, no, she is much too dirty.She cannot be seen.”But the prince insisted on it, and they had to call Cinderella. She first washed her hands andface clean, and then went and bowed down before the prince, who gave her the golden shoe.She sat down on a stool, pulled her foot out of the heavy wooden shoe, and put it into theslipper, and it fitted her perfectly.When she stood up the prince looked into her face, and he recognized the beautiful girl who haddanced with him. He cried out, “She is my true bride.”The stepmother and the two sisters were horrified and turned pale with anger. The prince,however, took Cinderella onto his horse and rode away with her. As they passed by the hazeltree, the two white pigeons cried out:Rook di goo, rook di goo!No blood’s in the shoe.The shoe’s not too tight,This bride is right!After they had cried this out, they both flew down and lit on Cinderella’s shoulders, one on theright, the other on the left, and remained sitting there.When the wedding with the prince was to be held, the two false sisters came, wanting to gainfavor with Cinderella and to share her good fortune. When the bridal couple walked into thechurch, the older sister walked on their right side and the younger on their left side, and thepigeons pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards, as they came out of the church, theolder one was on the left side, and the younger one on the right side, and then the pigeonspecked out the other eye from each of them. And thus, for their wickedness and falsehood, theywere punished with blindness as long as they lived.
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