The Ultimate Ending: Cinderella and Hamlet

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The ultimate ending
We have often read bed time stories that at the end everyone living happily ever after. Growing up several of us read the Cinderella story. After reading the Hamlet story I found some similarities even though the ending was not a happily ever after. Cinderella found a new meaning to her life through her prince charming at the end of the story but her journey getting there wasn't the prettiest. She struggled with not having her real mother and also losing her father later on. She lived a life of servitude to her new family and was very unhappy in her own home. Hamlet found eternal peace at the end of his story. Hamlet was a rich and very wealthy prince but beginning the story his father passed away and his mother married his uncle Claudius. Hamlet was very disturbed by this treachery that he drove himself crazy to the point of death. Cinderella and Hamlet have different endings but overall have several similarities. The ghost in hamlet or fairy god mother in cinderella, the love story involved in both Cinderella and Hamlet, and also the search for the killer of his father or owner of the glass slipper. Both found rewards to the quest they set out for but overall some stories have happy endings and others just tragic.
Cinderella was a child when she lost her mother. She was left with only her father. Her father was very wealthy maybe because he was a lord or baron. He re-married and now Cinderella had a step-mother and two sisters. It wasn't soon after her father passed that her step-mother became very wicked along with her sisters and tormented Cinderella. She was sentenced to live a life of servitude and had little to no say in her father's wealth. The prince in the story had to choose a wife very soon. The...

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