Stereotypes In Cinderella

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In this essay I will write about fairytales. Fairytales are always not true and they have always stereotypes about women and men. Sometimes they can be not true and not fair. One example is when women need to cleen the house , make food, wash clothes and many other things that you need to do at home. This is not always true, but it can be true. For men it is like they need to have money and keep the family safe. This is also not always true, but also it can be true. More spesifectly I will compare two cindirella stories which are the norway and the france story. The france trory is original and it’s name is only ”Cinderella” and the norway story is named totaly diferent: ”Katie wodencloak ”. They are mostly diferent, because in the katie wodencloak it is very much traveling and in the cinderella story is not. Travel My first diference is how they traveled. In the cinderella story cinderella went only to the palace but in the katie wodencloak story the bull and Katie wodencloak traveled very much to get away. So the most time in the Katie wodencloak story they were not at home like in the Cinderela story, but they almost always traveled. It was because the bull was helping katie wodencloak to eat, but her stepmother did not want that bull will help and wanted to kill him, so the bull and katie wodencloak went to a big journey. To the …show more content…

In the Fernch story it sais: ”Once there was a gentelmen who maried for his second vife”(p1) and in the Norway story it sais: once there was a king who became a widower (p1). So here you can see that it the same in two stories and it is bad for cindirella, because her stepmother is very bad and her dad can not do anything about it. So this efects the story very much. Also it is very important because there was good then the story would not be cinderella. If it was like that, she could go to the ball and be happy. I think this is the most thing which efects the

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