Ugly sisters Essays

  • Monologue Of Derella Essay

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    Cinderella Hi I'm Anastasia the ugly step sister well.. I'm not really ugly it's my sister that is but we'll get into who I am later in the story. Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella but everyone calls her Cindy. My dad named King Andres has been seeing her mom named Derella for almost two years now and she really likes him. So he invited Derella and her daughter Cindy to a fancy dinner at are castle, and yes my dad's a king and me and my sister Drizella is princesses. But at

  • Sun Moon And Talia

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    compare herself, who is “the…most haughty women [stepmother] that was ever seen” (Perrault 1), to Cinderella and the stepmother sees how much better a person Cinderella is than herself. As a result she lashes out by mistreating Cinderella. Cinderella’s sisters, who are “exactly like her [stepmother]” (Perrault 1), also react in a similar fashion, yet Cinderella never fights back; She never complains or acts in any way, shape, or form that would be unbefitting of a lady, which further causes her stepsisters

  • A Girl A Shoe, A Prince: The Endlessly Evolving Cinderella

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    stamps, and all the young woman were excited to attend. Naturally the ugly stepsisters wanted very much to go, and naturally they forbade Ella from attending, just to live up their reputation as wicked stepsisters. – Getting an education or maybe a job and achieving better life from her stepfamily – one with more fulfillment and fewer cinders – didn’t occur.” (Cheryl 1) I love how she always refers back to the stepsisters as ugly instead of evil. This (re)telling is absolutely my favorite and I would

  • How To Write An Alternate Ending For Cinderella's Tale

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    spoiled princess anymore, and had a poor, pathetic life. Her step-mother would frequently say, “Go do your work, Cinderella! Take care of your beautiful sisters, you rat.” All Cinderella

  • How Is Cinderella Different From Other Cultures

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    that treat her poorly. The version in the United States is known as Cinderella. Cinderella's mother dies when she is young and her father remarries. The woman he gets married to has two daughters. They become Cinderella´s new evil stepsisters. Her sisters are jealous because she is very pretty and petite. They treat her very poorly. She is to do chores around the house and attend to every need of her stepmother and stepsisters. The Prince is having a ball and requests that every available lady in the

  • Ella Enchanted

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    Ella Enchanted Once upon a time there was a girl named Ella Enchanted. She was so beautiful. Her mother died so she moved with her stepmother and step sisters and her 1 real sister. One day her fairy godmother gave her a gift. She had to take it or she will be turned into a rat. So of course she took it .the gift was kind of like a spell. It was kind of like a spell because the spell / gift was to be obedient, so for an example if someone told her to jump she would have to jump. After ever

  • Cinderella - Oppression of Women by Women

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    professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. [She] is alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women." (Cinderella's stepsisters, p. 500) In this situation, the women in Cinderella, specifically the step mother and step sisters, dominate Cinderella in many ways: name calling, degradation, mocking, and dishing her false hopes. The story as portrayed in Cinderella by Charles Perrault, Ashputtle by the Grimm Brothers and the Walt Disney adaptation written by Grant as well as

  • Cinderell Complexity And Beauty In Walt Disney's Cinderella

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    Cinderella is well-known fairy-tale known for a long period of time. Cinderella’s life surely does not go the way she would like: her mother dies, leading her father to remarry forcing her to become a slave in her own home to her step-family. There seems to be no end to the unpleasantness. But when she finally gets her wish to attend the ball and meet the prince with the help of magic, the more delightful sides to life start coming along and she ends up marrying her prince charming. Cinderella is

  • Negative Effects Of Reading Books

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    There are many ways to cope with stress, fear, and anger. Some people use alcohol or drugs to cope. Others can’t and do harm to themselves. I chose a positive way to escape my troubles. My difficulties started when I was young around the age of four, continuing to the present day. I was bullied, always aggressive, and am always overwhelmed with stress. I found a way to control these problems through reading books. I read books as a means to cope with these negative emotions and improve my

  • Cinderella Story In Gina Prince-Bythewood's Beyond The Lights

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    Once upon a time, there was a beautiful girl named Cinderella. She lived with her wicked stepmother and two stepsister who treated her like a servant. One day, they were invited to a ball at the king’s castle, but Cinderella’s wicked stepmother would not let her go. Against her stepmother’s orders, Cinderella attended the ball and met the prince who she fell madly in love with. Together they lived happily ever after. The familiar tale of Cinderella has made its way through history for centuries

  • Cinderella Reflection

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    Cinderella’s mother died when she was a young girl. Her father remarried Lady Tremaine, hoping to give his daughter a stepmother and family. One day, her father never returned from a trip, leaving Cinderella in the care of her stepmother. Her stepmother, Lady Tremaine was jealous of her charm and beauty, and gave her extra chores, such as bathing her cat Lucifer. Her stepsisters Anastasia and Drizella made her work all day, cooking, cleaning and sewing. Cinderella maintained her kindness and gentleness

  • The Cinderella Story: Cinderella's Story

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    Work, Work and Work. This was Cinderella's life, and it was all because of my mother. You may think you know how Cinderella's story went but its not true I am not just one of the evil stepsister. This is what really happened. Mother treated cinderella terribly and I hate it. I want to be kind to her because she is kind to us even with the way we treat her. We

  • Being Alone Essay

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    tell my mom, call her at work to tell or when I would see her after school but she would tell me to stop whining and causing trouble. I was truly 11 years old and alone in the world. Genital stage by Freud (Puberty and later) and Adolescence stage by Erikson (12-18 years old) This stage is where my life went from being alone to being alone in hell. I moved to Reno, Nevada with my dad, step mom and three step siblings in 6th grade. I was told at around age 12 by my stepmother, who said it came from

  • Compare And Contrast Essay On Cinderella

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    of Cinderella except Disney’s? There’s many similarities and differences between the French and Zimbabwe versions of Cinderella. Both versions have one daughter getting married to a king, but the French version has a sister and step mother, whereas the Zimbabwe version had one sister and no stepmother. However both stories, Cinderella ended up marrying the king of each. In the Zimbabwe story of Cinderella, toward the end it says, “It would make me so very happy if you would be my wife”, says the

  • Grimm And Cinderella Comparison

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    In the classic story of “Cinderella”, a beautiful young woman is treated badly but in the end lives happily ever after with a prince. The French version of “Cinderella” is romantic and happy, where the Cinderella character forgives her bad stepsisters by finding them husbands and allowing them to live in the palace with her and the prince. However, in the German version of “Cinderella” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the stepsisters are violently punished for mistreating Cinderella. Cinderella is

  • Comparison Of Ashputtle And Cinderella

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    stepsisters and stepmother about it. Like the story “Ashputtle” they try and keep her from going by making her do more chores. She finishes her chores and the nice helped her make a dress out of the cloths they found in the stepsisters rooms. The sisters found out and tour her clothes to pieces. She runs outside and cries. Unlike the other story, she has a Fairy Godmother. The Fairy Godmother makes it possible for her to go, providing her with something to ride in and a dress. When she gets to the

  • Cinderella Research Paper

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    Cinderella is a movie that was remade in 2015 from the original Cinderella from the 1950s. Once upon a time there was a girl named Cinderella who was born into a loving home with her mother and father. They all lived in a beautiful estate in a peaceful kingdom. One day her mother falls terminally ill and passes away, but before her mother passes away, she gives Cinderella words of wisdom to live by. After Cinderella and her father live alone for a few years, her father remarries a widow, who has

  • Life Depicted In Mary Shelley's Cinderella

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    issued a kingdom wide search for the mysterious maiden who stole his heart. By being the perfect fit in a glass slipper, Cinderella runs away with her beloved prince and lives happily ever after in a castle away from her wicked step-mother and step-sisters. Just like Cinderella, Mary Shelley lead a similar life; however, Mary Shelley did not have the happy ending Cinderella did. Mary Shelley creates many of her famous novels by using her life experiences and incorporating them into her novels. Novels

  • White Oleander, by Janet Fitch

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    White Oleander is an exciting novel written by Janet Fitch. It is a novel that describes the life of Astrid, a teen girl that had to experience abuse, sexual awakening, grief and occasionally a glimmer of love. Ingrid Magnussen was Astrid's mother, she would play an important role in Astrid life. It is a novel that describes how Astrid's own life experiences and her own intellectual knowledge influences her mind to become a better person in society. This novel created has a double meaning for me

  • Romeo And Juliet Queen Mab Speech

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    that you wish for will come true”. However, when the Disney movie graced the screen in 1950, the film conveniently left out the parts in the original story in which the two sisters, desperate for the Prince’s affections, chopped off the heels of their feet and were later blinded by vindictive pigeons. As was with the sisters in the story of Cinderella, in the classic tragedy Romeo and Juliet, seemingly happy things hide an undercurrent of maliciousness, and dreams are often cruelly broken by reality