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ENG101: College Writing (Diantha Quick): BCC Library Databases

Activity Description

Compare and contrast three of the seven variants of "Cinderella," and discuss the significance of the differences and similarities among variants. You may wish to use some of the following criteria for comparison and contrast in developing your essay.

Recommended Databases

eBook Central
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Literature Resource Center (Gale)
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Suggested Articles

Articles by Bruno Bettleheim.

Zipes, Jack. "Breaking the Disney Spell." Classic Fairy Tales, 332-352, 1999.

Zipes, Jack. "Setting Standards for Civilization through Fairy Tales: Charles Perrault and his Associates." Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, 13-31, 1991. (scroll down past questions for the chapter)

Additional articles from Jack Zipes

Criteria

Cinderella's Innocence/Guilt
Cinderella's Passivity/Activity
Cinderella's Flight from the Ball
Cinderella's Praying/Crying over her Mother's Grave
Cinderella's Treatment of her Stepsisters/Stepmother
Level of Violence in the Tales
Presence/Absence of Fairy Godmother
Presence of Cinderella's Dead Mother
Role of Animals
Sibling Rivalry
The Ending
The Father's Role
The Prince's Role in Finding Cinderella
The Prohibition that Cinderella return by Midnight
The Various Types of Slipper