Response to “Insights from a Cinderella story”

Weng Yuchao (Wesley)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG1430W10

2015.4.15

           Response to “Insights from a Cinderella story”

This essay actually analyzes the Cinderella story deeply. Author raises different versions of Cinderella story as examples. Author doesn’t only introduce the plots of different Cinderella stories, but she also analyzes the deeper meaning of each story and how that reflects the society.

In Edward Jones’s version, the stepmother play a victim role, she and Cinderella are abandoned by a man. So the step mother must be strict to Cinderella to live. It’s a reflection of stepmother in the society, stepmothers are always strict with kids. Maybe that where strict stepmothers come from.

In the Cinderella by Edmund Dulac, Cinderella doesn’t remember he mother, and there are no magic powers. But she has a symbol of mother in her mind, which is a perfect symbol. And this symbol always encourages Cinderella continue her life. These plots tell the readers that there is always an inner power that pushes us forward.

And there are also many other versions, they have something in common. Cinderella always has one or more helpers, that also can be connected with the fact that we always feel alone and need others’ help. What’s more, the beautiful clothes always play an important role in the story, clothes change Cinderella. That also reflects that people want to be beautiful and Royal in their mind.

Cinderella is a story that would never be out of date, it contains so many wisdoms.