Charles perrault cinderella

Students are mesmerized by the cruelty and violence of the original fairy tales. One of my favorite versions is Ever After with Drew Barrymore. In the beginning of the film the glass slipper is shown and it is golden glass—which solves both theories of the famous shoe. I love the Ever After version of this tale as well. The Brothers Grimm tend to be too grim for me.

Nice post! I love researching this sort of thing. One of my favorite Cinderella adaptions shadow puppets is from by Lotte Reiniger. You can find it on YouTube. Interesting to see how far back the story goes. Maybe I should reread my old fairytale books. By the way, why are so many suprised about the cruelty in the original fairytales? Finally, that long-awaited day has come.

Her stepsisters got ready and went to the ball, and Cinderella watched them sadly. Then she started crying. Her fairy godmother appeared and asked why she was crying. When Cinderella told her, her godmother asked her if she would also like to go to the ball. Cinderella said that she would very much like it and a good fairy answered that she would help her because she is a very good girl and she deserves it.

First, she told her to go to the garden and pick one pumpkin. Cinderella did that and she couldn't understand how the pumpkin would help her get to the royal ball. The good fairy carved a pumpkin and turned it into beautiful gilded carriages with her magic wand. Then they went to the mousetrap, where they found six mice. Cinderella lifted the lid of the mousetrap, and the fairy touched the mice one by one with a wand and turned them into six beautiful horses.

She gave each mouse, as it went out, a little tap with her wand, and the mouse was that moment turned into a fine horse, which altogether made a very fine set of six horses of a beautiful mouse colored dapple gray. Cinderella found a rat and the good fairy turned the rat into a beautiful boy who became the coachman of this magical carriage. After that, Cinderella went to bring six lizards, which the fairy turned into six footmen in suits with golden threads.

The new footmen immediately climbed into the carriage and behaved with as much dignity as if they had always done so. Cinderella was delighted with the prepared carriages. The only thing that didn't fit into this perfect picture was the tattered clothes she was wearing. This done, she gave her a pair of glass slippers, the prettiest in the whole world.

Satisfied, Cinderella climbed into the carriage and was ready to go to the royal ball. Her godmother told her to have a good time, but that she should not stay longer than midnight. If she stays even a minute longer, the carriage will turn into a pumpkin, horses into mice, footmen into lizards, and her beautiful dress into ordinary rags.

Cinderella promised to leave before midnight and left with the biggest smile on her face. The king's son was informed that a very beautiful unknown princess had arrived, so he hurried to meet her. He took her hand as she got out of the carriage. He led her to the ceremonial hall where the guests were. When she came in, everyone silenced, the dancing stopped, and the musicians stopped playing - everyone was so amazed by the beauty and great looks of the unknown girl.

Everyone watched Cinderella with enthusiasm. Even the king was delighted with her beauty and whispered to the queen that he had not seen such a beautiful princess for a long time. All the ladies at the ball watched her so that the next day they could make the same hairstyle and sew the same dress. Uploaded by station Hamburger icon An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon.

Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Texts Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. When the two sisters returned from the ball, Cinderella asked them if they had had a pleasant time, and if the fine lady had been there.

They told her, yes; but that she hurried away the moment it struck twelve, and with so much haste that she dropped one of her little glass slippers, the prettiest in the world, which the King's son had taken up. They said, further, that he had done nothing but look at her all the time, and that most certainly he was very much in love with the beautiful owner of the glass slipper.

What they said was true; for a few days after the King's son caused it to be proclaimed, by sound of trumpet, that he would marry her whose foot this slipper would fit exactly. They began to try it on the princesses, then on the duchesses, and then on all the ladies of the Court; but in vain. It was brought to the two sisters, who did all they possibly could to thrust a foot into the slipper, but they could not succeed.

Cinderella, who saw this, and knew her slipper, said to them, laughing Her sisters burst out a-laughing, and began to banter her. The gentleman who was sent to try the slipper looked earnestly at Cinderella, and, finding her very handsome, said it was but just that she should try, and that he had orders to let every lady try it on. He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

Charles perrault cinderella

The astonishment of her two sisters was great, but it was still greater when Cinderella pulled out of her pocket the other slipper and put it on her foot. Thereupon, in came her godmother, who, having touched Cinderella's clothes with her wand, made them more magnificent than those she had worn before. And now her two sisters found her to be that beautiful lady they had seen at the ball.

They threw themselves at her feet to beg pardon for all their ill treatment of her. Cinderella took them up, and, as she embraced them, said that she forgave them with all her heart, and begged them to love her always. She was conducted to the young Prince, dressed as she was. He thought her more charming than ever, and, a few days after, married her.

Cinderella, who was as good as she was beautiful, gave her two sisters a home in the palace, and that very same day married them to two great lords of the Court. Notes : The first edition of Perrault's famous collection of fairy tales. Stories for children, folktales, fairy tales and fables from around the world. As she was doing this, they said to her "Cinderella, would you not be glad to go to the ball?

Her godmother, who saw her all in tears, asked her what was the matter. After that, she said to her "Go into the garden, and you will find six lizards behind the watering-pot; bring them to me. Nothing was then heard but a confused sound of voices saying "Ha!