❀ Cinderella ❀

1. ❀Cinderella❀ The Story of Lucinda

2. ❈ ~History Of Cinderella~❈ • Rhodopis, a story from Egypt, is popularly known as the the first ever version of Cinderella, it was said to first be recorded in the first century BC/AD by “Strabo” a Greek historian. Strabo’s interpretation is considered to be loosely based on a story written 500 years earlier by Herodotus. • The next version of Cinderella was found in China. It was written in the middle of the ninth century (850-860 AD) by Tuan Ch’eng-Shih. However, even though this the was the first time the story was put into print in China , a lot of readers were familiar with the story already. • The next written version of Cinderella was published in 1697 by a Frenchman Charles Perrault in “HistoiresouContes du temps passé.” It was then published under the name “The Little Glass Slipper”. • After Perrault’s version was published the story became very famous, and many other renditions came to be. Today, almost every country in the world has their own adaptation.

3. ❃How many Versions of Cinderella really are there? ❃ • It is debatable how many different versions of Cinderella exist and sources will often disagree but the numbers conservatively range from 345-1500. However this is the number of different interpretations. There are many publications of the tale that follow the exact same story line that are just worded slightly differently with different illustrations. With these versions included, there are an estimated 5ooo tales of Cinderella • Some more common adaptations of Cinderella are: “The Cinder Maid”- Joseph Jacobs, “Cinderella”- Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm 1812, “Katie Woodencloak”- from Norway, “The Broken Pitcher”-from England, “Ashley Pelt” from Ireland, “the Hearth-Cat” from Portugal, “Little Saddleslut” from Greece, “The Baba Yaga” from Russia, “The Wicked Stepmother” from Kashmir and “Maria and the Golden Slipper” from the Phillipines.

4. ✿“Rhodopis”- An Egyptian Cinderella✿ • “Rhodopis” is considered to be the most ancient Cinderella story and is derived from Egypt. • In this story, Rhodopis ( our modern day Cinderella) is a greek slave, who works for her Egyptian master in his household. Her master is not mean, but spends the majority of his day sleeping. Since he is never awake, Rhodopis’s master is oblivious to the other servant girl’s cruel and harsh treatment of Rhodopis. • The other servant girls regularly tease Rhodopis because she is fair-complexioned and foreign. • Rhodopis starts to spend a lot of her time alone working, and because she is undistracted, becomes very skillful. One day, when the master sees Rhodopis doing such a good job, he rewards her with a pair of “rose-gilded slippers”. The other servant girls are jealous and become even meaner than before. • One day, the pharoah of Egypt decides to host a celebration in Memphis and everyone is Egypt is invited. Rhodopis would love nothing more than to go, but the other servant girls give her all their chores so that she has no choice but to stay home.

5. ✿ “Rhodopis” Cont. ✿ • One of the chores on the list is to wash the clothes so, Rhodopis heads down to the river. While she is washing the clothes she gets her new slippers wet and sets them on the bank to dry. • Out of nowhere, the falcon thought to be the god Horus flies down, seizes one of the slippers and goes away with it. Though Rhodopis is upset that she has now lost a slipper, she stores the other one in her pocket and continues on with the chores. • Later, at the celebration in Memphis, the slipper is dropped in the pharoah’s lap by the same falcon who stole it from Rhodopis. The pharoah, thinking that this is a sign from Horus, states that all the maidens in Egypt must try on the slipper and the ones whose foot fits it will be his wife. • Eventually, the Pharoah in search of his to-be wife comes to Rhodopis’s house. When the Pharoah sees that the slipper fits her, she take out the mate and the Pharoah says that she will be his Wife.

6. ❁ “Maria and the Golden Slipper - A Filipino Cinderella”❁ • In this adaptation of Cinderella, Cinderella is named Maria. • Maria was an only child of her mother and father, when she was only a little girl her mother passed away. A few years later, Maria’s father fell in love with a woman named Juana, who was a widow with two daughters of her own. The elder was Rosa ( Florinda) and the younger was Damiana ( Lucinda). • Maria and her father moved in with Juana, Damiana and Rosa but Juana, Damiana, and Rosa hated Maria. They treated very poorly and made her do all the work in the house • PrinveMalecadel wanted to find a wife so he decided to host a ball and invite all the women in his kingdon; the most beautiful of whom was to be his wife. • While Damiana and Rosa planned for the ball, Maria cried and cried because she had no clothes that were not ragged and torn. Damiana and Rosa would not lend Maria any clothes and relentlessly teased her for being ugly. • One day, while Maria was washing a crab came up and said “ Why are you crying Maria? Tell me the reason, for I am your mother”

7. ❀“Maria and the Golden Slipper” Cont. ❀ • Maria replied to the crab “I am treated by my step-mother and sisters as a servant; there will be a ball tonight, but I have no clothes to wear” • Juana caught Maria talking to the crab and ordered her to catch it and cook it for dinner. Maria was determined to not cook the crab, because she knew it was her mother but Juana beat Maria so hard that she had no choice but to obey. • Before Maria put the crab into the pot, it said “ Maria, don’t ear my flesh, but collect all my shell after I am eaten and bury the pieces in the garden near the house. They will grow into a tree and you can have what you want if you only ask the tree for it” • Later, after her family had eaten the crab, Maria took the shell out into the garden and buried it. • That night after Rosa and Damiana had gone to the ball, and after Juana had gone to bed, Maria went out to the tree and asked for her clothes to be changed into beautiful ones and for a coach drawn by four horses. The tree did as it was asked and said to her “ You must be in your house before twelve o’clock because, after then you will be changed back into ragged dirty clothes and the coach will disappear.

8. ❀Maria and the Golden Slipper Cont.❀ • Maria then went to the ball where she danced with the Prince all night because she was theh most beautiful of all. She went home at 11 o’clock and just as promised, at 12, her clothes and coach were transformed • The following night the prince hosted another ball. Maria again asked for her clothes and coach from the tree and rushed off to the ball, exited to see the prince. Maria and the Prince danced for the whole ball, and Maria had such a good time she forgot to notice the clock. At 12 she heard the bell and frantically ran out as fast as she could through the palace doors. • While running so fast, she dropped one of her golden slippers and later that night it was found by a guard. The prince then declared to all the people that “ The lady whom this slipper fits will be my wife.” • The next morning, the prince came to Maria, Damiana and Rosa’a house. Both Damiana and Rosa tried time and again to get the shoe to fit but it was useless, the shoe was not meant for them. Then when Maria tried on the shoe, it fit perfectly. Damiana and Rosa were so astonished that they fainted. • Finally Maria became the prince’s wife and after that, her step family treated her with the utmost respect.

9. ❃“The Hearth Cat”- a Portuguese Cinderella❃ • Once upon a time there was a schoolmistress who was a widow. This school mistress had a daughter who was very plain and boring. • The mistress had a student who was very beautiful and the daughter of a traveler. • The schoolmistress was very attached to the girls father and begged her to ask her father to marry her, promising to give the girl porridge made with honey if she did. • The girl asked her father to marry her school mistress but her father said that he would not marry her because he knew that she would not give his daughter the porridge. When his daughter started crying he promised he would order some iron boots and when the boots rusted to pieces with age, he would marry the mistress. • The little girl the next day told her school mistress of the boots and she then instructed her pupil to wet the boots everyday • Eventually the boots rusted and finally, the father had no choice but to marry the mistress. • When the girl’s father was home, her step mother and sister were kind to her, but soon as he went out they were cruel and mean

10. ❈The Hearth Cat Cont. ❈ • One of the tasks that the step mother gave the traveller’s daughter ( who she called Hearth Cat) was to go and find a cow. For her journey she gave the girl a loaf of bread byt said she couldn’t eat it, and a pot of water, that she gave the girl t drink, yet the girl had to bring it back whole. • Another task was to wind some skeins of thread. • This task upset the girl, but the cow told her not to worry. The cow helped the girl wind the skeins and then took all the crumbs out of the center of the bread so that the girl could eat but the loaf would still be entire. • When the girl came back with the task done, her step mother was angry for she had set the girl up to fail. The step mother was convinced that the Hearth cat’s success had something to do with the cow so, she ordered the girl to kill the cow and was it’s entrails in a tank. • This new task put the girl beside herself because the cow was her friend. However the cow told the girl not to be troubled and to go and wash her entrails but to be careful with what she saw come out of them. • Later while the hearth cat was washing the entrails, a small ball of gold came out of them and fell into the water. • Suddenly three fairies appeared. A Dog who had been watching the whole thing said, “ This Is a girl who will do good”. Then first fairy said to the hearth cat“ We endow you by the power we possess with the gift of beauty, making you the most lovely maiden in all the land.” The second said “ I cast a sweet spell over you so that when you open your mouth to speak, pearls and gold shall drop from your lips. The third said “ I endow you with every blessing, making you the happiest maiden in all the world. Take this wand, it will grant you whatever you may ask.”

11. ❀The Hearth Cat Cont. ❀ • The hearth cat then went back to her step-mother and sister and told them that she had found a tidy house and disarranged everything (which was the opposite of what she had actually done).The step-sister went to investigate and found a tidy house. Wanting to get the hearth cat in trouble, the step sister disarranged everything • The little dog saw what she did and when the fairies reappeared the dog said “ This girl has done harm and will continue to do so” • The fairies then put a spell on the step sister that maid her “the most wretched maiden in all of existence” • The step-sister not knowing that she had been transformed, went home. When her mother found her she was apaulled and began to cry • A few days later, the mother and step-sister went to the royal races. The hearth cat, after they had gone out, used the wand to give herself beautiful clothes and shoes so that she could go to the races as well. • While the hearth cat was at the races, the king fell in love with her. • The next night the hearth cat went back to the races in a more beautiful gown than before. The king again saw her and fell love sick. But, before he had the chance to talk to her she had left. In her hurry to get home quickly the hearth cat had dropped one of her slippers. The king picked up the slipper and fell even more in love • The king noticed that the shoe had writing in it, it said “ This shoe will only fit it’s owner” . He then began a search of the entire kingdom to find the girl. When the search came to the step mother, sister and the hearth cat’s house, the step sister and step mother both tried on the shoe but it was in vain. The king demanded that the hearth cat try on the shoe but the step mother refused. Finally she had to give in and when the hearth cat tried on the shoe, it fit perfectly. • The king then arranged a wedding for him and the hearth cat and they lived happily ever after. The school mistress and her daughter were never seen again because the king had ordered them to death.

12. ❀Purpose of Cinderella❀ • The purpose for telling the story of Cinderella, is to show that if you are good and kind, eventually you will be rewarded. Cinderella is misberable in her step family’s home but she still persists to be kind even while her sisters and mother are cruel and mean. In the end, Cinderella ends up with a prince and ( in the into the wood version) the step sisters end up blind and missing certain extremities. • The story of Cinderella also teaches optimism. Cinderella is put into the worst conditions at her step family’s house but, because she always has the glass half full perspective and doesn’t let anything get to her, she ends up living happily ever after. • Another lesson in this story is, it’s what’s on the inside that counts. Cinderella’s sisters are materialistic and vain and never think about other people. They are entirely self centered and focused on looks alone. In the end they are punished by becoming blind.

13. ❀Moral of Cinderella❀ • The moral of Cinderella is “Follow your dreams”. Cinderella is always dreaming of a better life and once she starts persueing it, it becomes a reality.

14. ❈Theme of Cinderella❈ There are several themes in Cinderella these include: Obstacles may exist but don’t let them get in the way of your dreams; always perservere. Good conquers Evil. Cinderella is constantly doing good, and her step-family is malicious. Even though Cinderella was like a servant to them, in the end she ended up on top/ Love: Cinderella just wants someone to love her and be “her prince”; the prince wants someone who appreciates him for his real self and not just his looks and wealth. They find each and love defeats everything else. Good Things happen to good People.

15. ❈Lucinda (A step sister) ❈ Lucinda is a dynamic character in “Into The Woods”. In the beginning she is cruel and vain but, she doesn’t think that she is “bad”. After her and Florinda become blind, she recognizes that she was “haughty, greedy, vain and smug.” She has many traits some of which include; materialistic, mean, egotistical, selfish, vain, silly, loud, and annoying.

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17. THE END By Elise Ewing