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  • Essay / Analysis of the Cinderella Story - 1315

    As much as these two stories differ, separated by years and miles, they are very similar and contain the same basic premise in both stories. There are many different variations of the Cinderella story that follow a story in which the main character is mistreated and then one day her life experiences a major change and everything changes for the better. However, both stories revolve around the transformation of the main character's beauty, they both focus on the main character's feet, for example in the Chinese variant: "The more he marveled at her beauty, the more determined he became to find the woman who suits him. who owned the shoe” (Ai-Ling, 4). Also seen in the Disney version "The Prince sent the Grand Duke to find the girl who matched the glass slipper." » (Disney, 14 years old). Chinese culture found beauty in the size of a woman's foot and that the smaller foot always meant a more beautiful woman. This form of beauty was taken from Chinese culture and also used in the current story of Cinderella to show that Cinderella was beautiful. The story of Cinderella is not just one story, it has many different variations around the world, which even include a male version of