1. Cinderella Grimm’s Fairy Tales

2. Cinderella • What is the purpose/moral/lesson learned from the story Cinderella? • What were your biggest fears as you watched the movie? • What did you hope for? What do fairy tales portray about women?

4. The Cinderella Complex: Women’s Hidden Fear of Independence • Collette Dowling • Women depend on men for happiness and survival • “This is a book that will reveal to many women some fundamental and probably painful truths about themselves. The central theme is that some women, often the brightest, "best" at school, and from the more affluent homes, suffer from a "Cinderella complex". This is, as the name implies, the desire to be rescued by a "prince": to be whisked away from the frightening realities of living as an authentic adult.”

5. The Fairy Tale • The traditional fairy tale is more like a poem or song-meant to be read aloud, maybe even memorized. • Tales are about our deepest fears and hopes: • Fears- since childhood (death of parent, pitiless strangers with power over us, being poor and unwanted). • Hopes- things we can only wish for. Wishes granted under certain conditions. Communicating with animals. Having our true worth discovered, revenge. (Revenge suppressed by Disney). • Fantasy: glass slippers, fairy godmothers, prince charming, animals who talk and help people • Reality: abuse, greed, jealousy, envy, loneliness, desire to escape, rescue, revenge.

6. Grimm’s Fairy Tales • Although the Grimm's imbued the tales with a heavy dose of Christian morality, the Protestant work ethic, and patriarchalism they also wanted the tales to depict social injustices and possibilities for self-determination • Most of all they provide hope that there is more to life that mastering the art of survival. • Their “once upon a time” keeps alive our utopian longing for a better world that can be created out of our dreams and actions. • “Once Their Were Two Brothers Grimm,” The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Jack Zipes

7. Suspense • The anticipation of the outcome of events, especially as the affect a character for whom one has sympathy. • Suspense produces a feeling of uncertainty that causes anxiety. • Writers can produce suspense by creating a threat to the main character and including mysterious events. • Writers usually build suspense throughout a story, building to the most suspenseful moment just before the climax.

8. Cinderella • C.S. Lewis: “traditional fairy tales reveal life from the inside.” • Poet Friederich von Schiller: “a deeper meaning resides in fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.”