An essay on cinderella

Summary of the story The Cinderella story is a children story about a girl whose mother died and her father remarried a proud and ill-tempered woman. The woman had two daughters of the girl’s age who were as ill-tempered as their mother. After remarrying her father, her stepmother always gave the girl hard chores but she never complained.

Cinderella, by the Brothers Grimm, is a popular fairytale that has been passed down generation to generation, and retold in various ways, but always as a story of ideal love and happiness that is told to amuse children of all ages.

So, here we are at the beginning with the history of the story, Cinderella. According to Thomas O’Neill (1999), Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, wrote a story collection called Children’s and Household Tales where Cinderella was included. Brothers Grimm had a very difficult childhood as their family had a lot of financial problems.

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