Essays on Cinderella

Having rediscovered the traditional German fairy-tale about Snow White and the wicked queen, Neil Gaiman introduces a perspective, quite different from others previously expressed. In his story Snow, Glass, Apples Snow White and the queen appear in different colors. They are both strong, and they both appear to implement their powers in their own ways. In the story, Neil Gaiman seems to present both female characters from different perspectives, enduing them with both traditional and feminist traits of their personalities. The entire story by Gaiman seems to be a feminist interpretation of the traditional German fairy-tale by Grimm brothers. ...

The article by Maria Tatar goes on to delve deep into the complexities of the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. The author of the piece engages in tracing the history of the fairy tale. She opines that there have been many interpolations and transformations in the narrative and content of the story based on cultural difference and timeline in history of literature. To substantiate her point, Tatar cites the versions of the fairy tale popularized in Germany, Indonesia, Japan and some other countries where the stepsisters of the central female character of the fairy tale meet very grave destinies by ...

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There are very few children who grew up in the 1990s who does not remember watching Disney’s “Aladdin.” They remember the image of endless sand dunes, hidden caverns, flying carpets, a beautiful princess, a handsome hero and, of course, a big blue genie. Disney’s Aladdin garnered a great deal of praise and theatrical success. “Aladdin,” unlike previous Disney animated features, where the characters and stories were in some fictitious worlds and kingdoms, “Aladdin” was going to bring to life elements of a real world location. “Aladdin” takes place in the Arabian Desert. Brining this story to life, ...

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The Walt Disney Company is one of the most exalted brands on a global level, with every individual affected by the company’s utilization of content, services and consumer products one way or the other. Marketing is the most important tool that helps Disney promotes their most creative, innovative and entertaining experiences and products, to generate the need and demand effectively (About Walt Disney Company, 2016). One of the most celebrated characters of Disney is Cinderella and the following report will focus on the evolution of this legendary character through time and the marketing impact to create and maintain ...

Fairy tales lure children with their simple and easy to understand style and magic in the story.

The common character in any fairy tale is an imaginary being with magical powers. For Example, in “the Cinderella” story, the protagonist, Cinderella gets gold dress and jewelry out of the blue from the fairy godmother in one version or the tree near her mother’s grave in another version of the story. These supernatural powers do not represent the real world. Inculcating this false view of the world through fictional fantasy in children, who are very impressionable in the young ages, causes insidious harm to them. Instead of fostering spirit of scientific thinking, they are doing the exact ...

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Bella and Luke – Chapter 1: Bella p.5 Bella and Luke – Chapter 2: Luke p.6 Bella and Luke – Chapter 3: Bella and Luke pp.7-9 Explanation of plot summary and choices pp.10-12 Introduction For this assignment I have chosen topic number 2; “Write your own version of the Cinderella story, structuring your re-telling around the element(s) of the story that seem most significant or interesting to you. You can tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters or use third person narration. Think carefully about what specific aspects of the story you decide to emphasise ...

One of the many Disney princess movies that I enjoyed while growing up was “Cinderella.” When watching the film again for the class assignment I observed the movie with a different perspective than I did as a child. This time, watching the movie I analyzed my response to the movie through what emotions and sensations it brought forth in me. There were definitely moments of the film that were inspiring as I watched Cinderella overcome her struggles. Aside from being inspired by Cinderella’s perseverance, I was deeply disturbed by the horrific manner in which the step-mother behaves and ...

Love- A feeling, a word and a sensation that has made people laugh, cry , kill, poets write realms of poetry, scientists try and understand what it is all about and many others wish for it. There are different kinds of love- the love a mother has for her child, the love a father shows his children, love for friends, pets and then there is romantic love. Of the above, perhaps it is romantic love that has been the most written about and vilified. Love is also a state of being that makes a person experience different emotions at the ...

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Kathi Miao is a feminist, a film critic and editor. She is also a fantasy and science fiction magazine columnist. Additionally, she has authored books on film essays with the Disney Dolls article being among her most famous and most controversial criticism. In this article, Miao subjects the Disney children’s films to feminism criticism, looking at the themes and the characterization with the critical eye of a feminist. She asserts that the female characters that we have come to know and adore in the Disney animated films; from the classics of Snow White , Sleeping Beauty, the little Mermaid, ...

Fables often bring about interesting morals that help to shape the way persons shape their actions. The story of “Cinderella” shows readers that good will always triumph over the evil of the society. Cinderella is symbolic of the number of challenges that children face in the society today. Many children have been left in the care of step-parents because of death, divorce, or personal choices on the part of one biological parent. The challenge is great as a number of step-parents face conflicting emotions in dealing with their biological children and the new child. In addition, some step-parents become ...

Fairytales generally offer children a very limited choice of heroes and villains, and they cast men and women in stereotyped roles, because they are meant to socialize children according to the values of the society and according to their expected gender roles. Two feminine characters found in many fairytales are the wicked stepmother and the young and beautiful heroine, who is often a princess. In such fairytales as Grimm brothers’ “Snow White”, “Cinderella” and “Mother Holle”, the stepmother is an intruder who occupies the role of the good mother and persecutes the young, beautiful and kind heroine. She is ...

Peer Reviewer:

Write three critical comments (things the writer can work on to improve the essay) and one positive comment (something the writer does well). Critical – I have spotted some minor grammatical errors, i.e. times should be time, O6ther should be Other, and f should be of. Also some of your sentences are a bit long. You describe what the story is about several times throughout the paper, this is not necessary if the explanation is provided in full at the beginning. The introduction needs a little work. To set the expectation for the reader, I think your second paragraph should ...

All children grow up in the magical world of fairy tales that have been so gripping and inspiring. Most of the legends are about challenges and tough times plus how the main character deals with injustices in their lives. Although the primary motive behind telling those fairy tales is pure entertainment for children, the tales are well known as a literary genre. Thus, there is a lot more to those fairy tales as they have a lot to offer to people of all age groups. The setting of the storyline sis simple in nature and magical. The characters are ...

Analysis / The Disney Cinderella as a modern feminist tale

Disney Cinderella movies are the favorite tale of children all over the world. However, studying the history of these films, it is possible to notice the changes between their gender stereotypes. Each subsequent film depicts an increasingly feminist history of poor Cinderella, who despite everything, continues to believe in a miracle. Charles Perrault's Cinderella was created to represent the post-war America a good poor girl, who with the help of her faith became a rich and happy princess. Unlike all the previous versions of Cinderella, in 2015 the happiness of the contemporary wretched girl depends not only on the ...

The Disney version of Cinderella has some significant differences from the original version by Charles Perrault. The general plot is similar but several episodes in the film differ a lot from the book story. First of all, Disney Cinderella meets the Prince in the forest for the first time, while in the book they only meet first time at the ball. In the first story Cinderella did not know who her new acquaintance was. In Perrault’s story Cinderella met the Prince twice, while in the film she only visited one ball. There is a color difference in the ...

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For two centuries, the creativity of Charles Dickens, a leader who has made an original contribution to world literature, attracted the attention of literary critics and followers. A realist of English Literature Charles Dickens lived and worked during the times of critical realism of the nineteenth century. Works created by English writer have absorbed various topics. In English literature, Charles Dickens was the founder of a new genre - the social novel. In his works we can see different images of the female image. It should be emphasized that the author has not disregarded Victorian women. According to the ...

It is expected that, at one point in our lives, we have read the story of Cinderella or Hamlet or even both. Cinderella is a common bedtime story for children, most especially for the girls, while Hamlet is a favorite subject of literary reading for most students in their literature classes. Due to the popularity of both these stories, they have been adapted in movies and plays for a lot of times already. Different plot variations or twists have also been already made to both stories to adapt to the ever changing audience considering that these stories have already ...

The survival of the modern economy depends on a neverending stream of consumption. This is why cars do not last as long as they used to, it is why the cost of a new television is not significantly higher than the cost of television repair, and it is why restaurants continue to proliferate across the map, hopping from retail corner to retail corner to chase families down before they can get home and cook their own meals. This trend began in the wake of the Great Depression; while it was largely the mobilization of industry for World War II that brought ...

There are various types of multicultural lesson plans. The Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) model and the Essential Element of Instruction (EEI) are some of the common types of multicultural lesson plans used by educators. An example of a multicultural lesson plan from the SIOP model is the healthy and unhealthy foods lesson plan. The objective of the lesson is to assist students identify and differentiate healthy and unhealthy foods. The students will to a story and tell a friend if the food identified is healthy or unhealthy. These objectives are in line with academic standards because they show the main aim ...

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Cinderella Man Synopsis The Cinderella Man movie was developed in New York, and its scenes took place in both New Jersey and New York. The movie was developed during the time of the Great Depression, a time when many people’s economic statuses were in great danger. The movie depicted a time in the U.S history when its economic status was at a derailing point, and the country was suffering so much. During this time, there emerged a light weight a boxer named James J. Braddock. He participated in many boxing activities for a very long time. During his career years, his ...

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Disney has shown the portrayal of women over many years in the movies by the use of animation characters. The role of women is portrayed to have changed over time in times of nature and the scope. There was a very big change since the early 1900’s to modern day in the personalities of the women, their attitudes and ideologies towards men and the way they were portrayed in the movies, as the passive damsels in distress to being their own superhero. The evolution of women in Disney movies shall be analyzed through the use of feminist essays written ...

Korean culture has been revealed massively globally in today’s generation. This can be seen through the many modes of media coming from Korea that are shown in other parts of the world. They start to influence other people through their music, movies, TV dramas and other media. Due to the high quality production, they were recognized from people across the globe, gaining popularity as the days go by. One of the most popular Korean TV dramas is the “Princess Hour”. This TV drama shows all about Korean culture and the traditional socio-cultural practices with touch of modernism. ...

Introduction

Cinderella is a story that resonates with most people in one way or another within the course of their lifetime. This is because the story explores a fable-like element of unexpected success amidst oppression and unfair treatment (Orenstein 50). The story, a European folk tale, is about a beautiful young girl, Cinderella, who lives in a household where she gets mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. She does not get new thinks such as items of clothing and other necessities and has to rely on “hand-me-downs” from her siblings. To add to her misery, she is subjected to hard labor and mistreated. However, her ...

Chapter: The Whiteness of Black Disney Princesses – The Princess and the Frog as Acceptable White Ideal for African-Americans in Childrens’ Media When it comes to race, representation in Disney princess films is rare; until now, there are only a few non-white Disney princesses, and most of them are whitewashed and their cultural attributes hidden. Over the course of the Disney princess line, several trends can be seen about race and culture – minority cultures are often shown in negative ways. In most popular culture, the lack of representation of black characters is clear – while representation is increasing, “diverse and accurate ...

This fairy tale has a lot of versions, authored by different people. One of the most well-known and popular versions was the one written by Charles Perrault (1697), which will be discussed first followed by the other versions. There is a general agreement in all the versions that Cinderella was mistreated by her stepmother and her two daughters, and that by a stroke of luck, or through magic, she gets the Princes’ attention and they eventually get married and live happily ever after.

Charles Perrault’s version

In this version, Cinderella gets her big break when the Prince invites all the young ladies to a ball in a ...

America's "Cinderella"

The stories that elicit the theme of “from rags to riches” have become like American creed from early as 1860s. Millions of these stories have been produced and sold worldwide. They have given hope to the poor boy that they can be a president, or a poor girl can become a president wife. Authors such as Horatio Alger, Luck nickel and Pluck, have perfected this theme in their children fiction stories from the early age. Therefore, the Cinderella story is not strange to this believe (Yolen, 2001). However, the Cinderella story which has been in existence for more than thousand years, ...

Cinderella Man depicts the hardship many people went through during the Great Depression. During the Great Depression, food was scarce, people competed against each other to get picked for day jobs, and most often the only joy people had was watching or listening to sporting events are just some of the Great Depression reenactment found in Cinderella Man. While this movie shown the hardship Americans faced, it also had shown how people got inspiration and hope as well. During this time in American History, the economy was very bad. Millions of people lost their jobs. Throughout the movie, ...

Thesis statement

Cinderella fairy tales have evolved with time, incorporating plot elements in different ways. Introduction The ancient Cinderella tales have evolved to a complex state nowadays. The evolution has brought about changes in the modern literature, leading to the depiction of a very different Cinderella from that depicted in the old untrue tales. These changes are in the character portrayed by Cinderella, point of view, theme, and the setting (Parsons 135).

Character

‘The politically correct Cinderella’, ‘a feminist view’, and ‘America’s Cinderella’ versions of tales differ in how they present the character of Cinderella (Parsons 135). However, Cinderella in all the ...

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Different technology devices have a positive impact on children’s learning. A lot of research has been conducted to study the impact of technological devices in teaching students effectively, and one such research Dr. Ajayi (2012) illustrates the positive impact technological learning practices had on students. In Video Reading and Multimodality: A Study of ESL/Literacy Pupils’ Interpretation of Cinderella from Their Socio-historical Perspective, Dr. Ajayi (2012) shows how teachers in elementary schools in California, used videos of Cinderella to teach students the standard literary concepts of “story plots, meanings, characters, settings, themes, and conflicts,” (Dr. Ajayi, p.61) successfully. This experience ...

There is no doubt that different technological devices have a positive impact on the learning skills of children today. In order to substantiate this view, a source I would like to use for my research paper would be the journal article, Video Reading and Multimodality: A Study of ESL/Literacy Pupils’ Interpretation of Cinderella by Lasisi Ajayi (2012) that shows how Hispanic ESL/literacy learners use social, cultural, historical and political experiences and multimodal resources to interpret and represent Cinderella. However, I will need to evaluate the source in order to establish that it is a relevant and credible source that can be used ...

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Education in the United States has forever been in the limelight for varying reasons. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (No Child Left Behind), which was made a federal law by the then President, George W. Bush, in 2002; Children with Learning Disabilities; Technology-Assisted Learning, English for Foreign Learners; and Role of Parents in Education, to name a few, has been making headlines in the education sector for a number of years. The number of children leaving school education is growing alarmingly because of their inability to learn, or for personal reasons. It is for this reason that I have taken a special ...

The movie is about a real life inspiration James J. Braddock, an Irish-American boxer, formerly and a light-heavyweight contender, who is strained to give up boxing due to an arm injury in the ring. It is a relief for his wife Mae, yet she knows without his boxing they will not have a good income. The United States enter the Great Depression; Braddock has to do manual labor to support his family, with his hand injury. Braddock's longtime friend and manager, Joe Gould, offer him another chance to make some money. The fight is against Corn Griffin, number-two contender for the world title. ...

Introduction: My favorite hobbies are gaming, movies, animals/pets. I am at MSU to study social work. I am in the MSW program. One thing that I’d like others to know about me is that I love animals of all kind. I have a Russian Tortoise, three freshwater aquariums. I also have 2 min pins or miniature pinchers which are a cross between a German pinscher Italian greyhound and dachshund. The Monster Under My Bed: The monster that lives under my bed is about two feet tall and looks like a short, squat goblin with bat wings that fold against its back. ...

While there is no all around acknowledged meaning of a fairy tale, for the most part they are stories of charm and entertainment. Fairy stories are some piece of ordinary lives, and are frequently used to show youngsters standards. Individuals utilize fairy tales to show adolescent youngsters ethics a fable is ordinarily a tale about something that might not typically happen in genuine living, for example, creatures that can converse with people. A fable will dependably end cheerfully with the legend or courageous woman living joyfully ever after. The careful meaning of "children's story" has been a matter of civil argument for quite a ...

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Thesis Statement and Introduction Has it ever occurred to you that children love reading comics and watching fairy tale movies more than reading story books? Ask them what they’ve understood from a fairy tale that was screened on TV recently and they’ll keep talking about it till you fall dead. On the contrary, ask them to read a story book and see what happens. I’ll bet that they wouldn’t get through to the second page. Pictures and color attract children and adults alike, and while adults like to watch movies, children love to watch cartoons and ...

Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture is a book written by Peggy Orenstein in the year 2011. This book explores the princess culture trend and predominantly how this culture is promoted to young growing girls. The Cinderella Ate My Daughter book is stemmed from an article in The New York Times Magazine wrote in 2006 by Orenstein entitled What’s Wrong with Cinderella? In the article, Orenstein explains how the Disney Princesses originated and how the princess-themed merchandise and advertising has increased. Orenstein’s book Cinderella Ate my Daughter explores beyond the ...

The story of Cinderella is, perhaps, one of the most well-known stories in the world. Many cultures have traditional folk stories involving the rags-to-riches story arc; becoming massively successful in the face of adversity seems to be one of humanity's driving personality features. Because the story of Cinderella is so ubiquitous, it is not surprising that great storytellers borrow tropes, character arcs, and thematic ideas from the folktale. Tales like the Cinderella story are generally not created merely as a form of entertainment, but also as a way to educate people-- particularly children-- about cultural mores and societal expectations. These tales ...

Since old, the woman is seen as a second the self of humanity. Men are warriors, and the women are servants, who try their best to please, nature and tender the warriors to enable them achieve their heroic aspirations. For those men who enjoy the sits of power, women become their queen, second in command in the royal throne. Although this is the general belief of the society, many women have brought great achievement in the past and the present in many fields that they have authority. In addition, wealthy women exist in these times, little aid they require from ...

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Institutions INTRODUCTION Psycholinguistics is a branch of applied linguistics which is concerned with the study of how word meaning, sentence meaning, and discourse meaning are computed and represented in the mind (Field, 2003).Psycholinguists study the manner in which complex words and sentences are produced in speech and how they are broken down into their constituent parts in the processes such as listening and reading .Basically, psycholinguistics is concerned with the understanding of how language is ‘done’. Linguistic communication inherently involves the resolution of uncertainty over a potentially unbounded set of possible signals and meanings. The problem ...

Literature Review: Gail Carson Levine's Ella Enchanted

Food has always been associated with physical nourishment, but in Gail Carson Levine's children's novel, Ella Enchanted, food takes different meanings. Reimer describes food as "sustainable consumption" (35) and "pleasure" (35) associated with the protagonists on one hand, and as cause for domination (35) and greed (38) to represent the antagonists on the other hand. Elizabeth Reimer, whose literary expertise lies on children's literature, women's life history, and fiction writing teaches at the Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia (Reimer 53). For the purpose of this review, the subject of discussion is Reimer's "Consumption, Femininity, and Girl Power in ...

Analysis of the Cinderella story in relation to post-colonialism theory

Literature either in the form of writing or reading can be reviewed using the post colonial theory which simply so because it centers its argument the cultural, political, and religious nature of the literature. This document seeks to analyze the story of Cinderella as told by the BBC program CBEEBIES using the post-colonialism theory. The unhappy state of Cinderella caused by her jealous sisters is just but a representation of the contemporary adamant and self-centered members in the family and in the entire society who in one way or another oppress the weak and humble citizens. Cinderella represents those ...

Discussion Questions

Question 1: The view of symbolic violence as the product of a deeply ingrained sense of dominance within some sections of society is apt in describing the complexity with which the former is associated. For instance, society has in the past placed man on top of the social hierarchy and relegated women to subservience based on ancient norms and traditions. This then means that it would be inaccurate to assume that such skewed view of the social framework could be revised through simple appeals to the will as a way of redefining people’s interpretations of the role of each ...

Project Scope

This paper will establish the various gender roles in some of the popular Disney movies according to the portrayed male and the female characteristics in these movies.

Introduction

The roles of gender in most of the Disney popular movies have been well defined although with a lot of biasness. Most of these movies have brought out the roles of gender to be very unrealistic and the Disney characters have also remained to be very popular amongst the millions of children who are inspired by such movies. Such movies may inspire the roles of a specific gender, the ideals and values, legitimacy and ...

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The Cinderella story has been translated to over 500 different versions. This literature paper will, however, focus on three versions and attempt to use them as a basis of comparison. The comparison seeks to determine how these three versions attempt show that low circumstances can raise to good fortune. The three versions are "A Chinese "Cinderella" by Ch'eng-shih, "Cinderella" by Perrault and "Ashputtle" by the Grimms. Folks and fairy tales are the stories that are told to children. Children around the world get familiar with them mostly from infancy to their 2nd grade. They are used to entertain, educate about ...

In “Cinderella, Not So Morally Superior,” author Elisabeth Pantaja takes the position that Cinderella is not superior to the step-sisters, as readers often think. Additionally, so takes the position that Cinderella is not motherless in the story.

Summary

As a child or an adult just watching Cinderella for entertainment, at first glance, without a thought, it does appear that poor, motherless Cinderella is taken advantage of by her stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and evil stepsisters, Drizella and Anastasia. Cinderella is orphaned as a young girl. Her mother dies when she is a baby. Her father remarries, trying to provide Cinderella with a mother to raise her. ...

This essays deals with the idea of violence in nursery rhymes and fairy tales that have been (re)told to children over the past several centuries. The idea is that the violence is disguised by the veil of revenge and righteousness, making it appear less conspicuous, but it is nevertheless present, and as such, a possible threat to the child’s psyche. Some of the stories mentioned in the following essay show that they condone violence, for whatever reason, depending on the circumstances under which this particular violence occurs.

Keywords: violence, fairy tales, fables, nursery rhymes

In today’s society, the average human is surrounded by acts ...

The Cinderella, Fairy Tale has been handed down from generation, depicting the hatred of Cinderella’s two step-sisters and her step-mother. The general consensus of this story is Cinderella’s step-mother and step-sister are full of hatred and they unleashed it on her. There is the possibility that the story has another side. Maybe, Cinderella’s extended family has never known love; they do not know what being loved is like. Not knowing or ever experienced love their behavior is understood. No one can display a behavior to which he or she is not exposed. Such a life would deem anyone ...

Introduction

Fables and fairy tales have various inexplicable origins and they have been aesthetically transformed over the years to suit the cultural representations of various countries which have added their patina to it. They seem to be slices of life, and have some core values as well as mythical elements in them. Cinderella is one such tale which has seen its circuit across the world. The women in the talks seem to take multiple roles such as ‘maiden, matron or crone.’ In this tale itself, you have the various representations - the step mother is the crone, the elder ...

According to the “Midnight Poison” print advertisement from Christian Dior, designed for placement in Glamour, “a new Cinderella is born” with this fragrance. When we think of Cinderella, a fair-haired, rosy-cheeked maiden comes to mind, hale but not yet prematurely aged from a regimen of hard work, from dawn to dusk. Her cheeks are rosy, and her skin has the glow of youthful energy. In this ad, aimed at women from their twenties through their forties, we see the opposite: a raven-tressed girl, slender to the point of fragility, looks up at us. Her pale skin suggests, if not death, a lifestyle of such ...

Assignment: Historical Accuracy in Hollywood Movies based on true stories.

A. What reasons do your authors give to explain the historical inaccuracies in the films? Give an example from one of the articles.

The director James Cameron seemed to be working against himself in putting together the movie “The Titanic.” As the reviewer notes he carefully tried to portray the sets and rituals of Victorian society but then he used a script that showed a contemporary view of the appropriateness of . . . making love? having sex?. . . with a stranger. On top of that all the fine historical clothing was flooded so no one could ever use it again. I think the director had ...

Parenting has gradually evolved as a very important subject of study, considering the fact that the offspring is greatly impacted by not only the physical treatment but also the psychological handling by parents and may adversely impact the entire life of a child if not treated properly. Arne Thompson’s “Cinderella” is a great folktale and is really loved by the audience, specially children, though the story seems to create more of a fairy tale effect, there is a very deep message embedded in the entire plot, and that is about the treatment given to step-children; the story does not produce any criticism ...

What I especially enjoyed about htis poem is its comic and sarcastic tone. The title ‘Cinderella’ leads us to expect a poem that deals with the world of fairy tales and a vaguely medieval setting, but Sexton achieves humor by defeating our expecatations in the first four verses. The first four verses reveal a recognisably modern world and this creates humor – modern details are juxtaposed with a very well-known fairy tale. In each of the first four stanzas Sexton describes a rags-to-riches story. Someone who is poor and unimportant, by a simple twist of fate or by hard work, becomes rich and successful. But each ...