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Cinderella

Cinderella. Main themes to note. Cinderella either 1. meek and genteel, 2. clever and resourceful, or 3. manipulative Either father remarries evil stepmother (real mother therefore helps Cinderella) Or father is evil, wants to marry daughter (and magical guardian helps Cinderella)

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Cinderella

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  1. Cinderella

  2. Main themes to note • Cinderella either 1. meek and genteel, 2. clever and resourceful, or 3. manipulative • Either father remarries evil stepmother (real mother therefore helps Cinderella) • Or father is evil, wants to marry daughter (and magical guardian helps Cinderella) • Father seeking daughter is too hard to accept. Too real! “It is when fairy tales coincide with experience that they begin to suffer from censoring, rather than the other way around.” • Big tendency to defame women and magnify maternal evil! “Even if a tale turns on a father’s incestuous desires, the mother becomes more than complicit: she has stirred up trouble in the first place by setting the conditions for the husband’s remarriage.” • Father and prince either collaborate or are rivals! “The path to happy heterosexual unions depends on a successful transfer of filial love and devotion from a father to a ‘prince,’ on a move from a false ‘perfect fit’ to a true ‘perfect fit.’”

  3. Differences to note • Family situation! • Actions of the King/father vs. actions of the Queen/stepmother (absent father) • Actions of the stepsisters or townspeople • Presence of magic objects and wishes • Presence of fairy godmother/magical figure. Do they grant gifts or give advice? • The lost shoe/other object • Occasion for lost object. Ball? Specifically for what reason? Occasion for finding lost object. • Retaliation against stepsisters and Queen • Cinderella progressive/resourceful or more submissive? • Is there a clear narrative presence? How clear is the moral? What does the tale end on/with?

  4. “Yeh-hsien” • The Chinese Cinderella Story. Author unknown (c. 850 A.D.) • Family • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Magical object • Occasion for event • Lost object • Fate of stepfamily • Fate of Yeh-hsien • Moments of narrator’s voice? Moral to story?

  5. “Donkeyskin” • Charles Perrault, French, 1694. • Family • Magical object • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Royal possessions/lost object (ring) • Occasion for losing the ring • Fate of the King • Fate of Donkeyskin • Moments of narrator’s voice. Moral to story.

  6. “Cinderella” • Brothers Grimm, German, 1857 (first published 1812) • Family • Magical object/wishes • Magical figure? Gifts or advice? • Lost object (shoe) • Occasion for lost shoe • Fate of Cinderella • Fate of stepfamily • Moments of narrator’s voice? Moral to story?

  7. “Catskin” • Joseph Jacobs, English, 1890 • Family • Magical object • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Lost object • Occasion for lost object • Fate of family or other adversaries • Fate of Catskin • Moments of narrator’s voice? Moral to story?

  8. “The Story of the Black Cow” • Alice Elizabeth Dracott, Folk Tales From the Himalayas, London, 1906 • A Brahmin is the highest of the four caste systems in India (varna) • Family • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Royal appearance/magic object • Lost object • Occasion to find lost object • Fate of the Brahmin’s son • End the tale. Clear moral?

  9. “Three Wishes” • Lin Lan, Folktales in China, Shanghai, 1933 • Family • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Royal appearance/magical object • Lost object • Occasion to find lost object • Fate of Beauty (several stages) • Fate of Pock Face and family • Clear moral? What are the three wishes?

  10. “The Princess in the Suit of Leather” • Translated and edited by IneaBushnaq, Egyptian, Arab Folktales, 1986 • Family • Magical object? • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Lost object • Occasion for losing and finding it • Fate of Juleidah • Fate of family and others • Moments of narrator’s voice. Clear moral?

  11. “The Cat Cinderella” • Giambattista Basile, Italian, 1634-1636 • Family • Magical figure or aid. Gifts or advice? • Other magical figures and objects • Lost items • Occasion for losing items • Fate of Zezolla • Fate of family • Moments of narrator’s voice. Clear moral?

  12. “Pepelyouga” • Serbian, Woislav M. Petrovitch (editor), preface New York 1914 • Family • Magical figures. Gifts or advice? • Magical objects • Lost item • Occasion for losing item • Fate of Marra • Fate of family • Moments of narrator’s voice? Clear moral?

  13. “The Baba Yaga” • Aleksandr Afanasyev, Russian, published by Ralston (editor) in London 1873 • Family • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Other magical figures • Fate of the daughter • Fate of the family • Moments of narrator’s voice? Clear moral? • Why no prince or lost items?

  14. “Maria and the Golden Slipper” • Filipino, Dean S. Fansler (editor) 1921 • Family • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Lost item • Occasion for lost item • Fate of Maria • Fate of family • Moments of narrator’s voice? Clear moral?

  15. “The Wicked Stepmother” • Kashmiri, J. Hinton Knowles (editor) 1893 • Family • Magical figure. Gifts or advice? • Lost item • Occasion for lost item • Fate of the children and the daughter • Fate of the rest of the family • Moments of narrator’s voice? Clear moral?

  16. “Little Saddleslut” • Greek, Edmund Martin Geldart (editor) 1884 • Family • Magical figure? Gifts or advice? • Magical objects • Lost items • Occasion for lost items • Fate of Saddleslut • Round 2: magical figures, magical objects • Fate of family • Moments of narrator’s voice? Clear moral?

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