Cinderella
CINDERELLA (fr. Cinderella) - the heroine of Ch. Perro's fairy tale "Cinderella" (1697). "Kind, friendly, sweet" - this is how the author characterizes his heroine. This is really one of the most subtle and charming images among fairy-tale heroines. Cinderella is modest, hardworking, flexible, benevolent. The daughter of a respectable and noble man, Cinderella, oppressed by her evil stepmother, lives in her own house as a servant, performing, and completely meekly, all the menial household work. She cleans boilers and pans, washes ladders; she takes care of her half-sisters, who repay her with black ingratitude, sleeps in the attic under the very roof, on a prickly straw bedding, and silently endures all insults, not even daring to complain to her father. She was nicknamed Cinderella for her dress, which was always stained with ashes. A fairy tale is a fairy tale, and Cinderella gets to the ball. Her fairy godmother helps her. Cinderella is so beautiful that the prince distinguishes her from all the ladies present, and the guests are also fascinated by the stranger. And here Cinderella would take revenge on her sisters and stepmother, do something unpleasant to them, but she, on the contrary, “found them, said a few pleasant words to each, treated them to oranges and lemons, which the prince himself brought her.” Having married the prince, Cinderella immediately forgave her sisters for all insults, because, as Perrault writes, "she was not only pretty, but also kind." The image of Cinderella captivated many artists. The Grimm brothers (1814) created their own version of the Cinderella story. The Italian composer D. Rossini wrote a lyric-comic opera based on this plot (1817), and S.S. Prokofiev wrote a ballet of the same name (1944). The domestic film "Cinderella" (1947) with Y. Zheymo in the title role (based on the play and script by E. L. Schwartz) is recognized as a classic of children's cinema.
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The main character of the fairy tale of the French writer Charles Perrault "Cinderella or the Crystal Slipper" is a kind, beautiful and friendly girl who was left without a mother. Her father remarried a woman with two daughters. But the new wife had an unenviable character. She immediately disliked her stepdaughter, who was much more beautiful than her daughters. The girl got the most difficult and dirty housework, and she had to live in the attic. In the evenings, after work, she rested on a box of ashes, and for this she was nicknamed Cinderella.
Once the royal son decided to have a ball and Cinderella's sisters received an invitation to it. Preparing for the ball, they completely drove Cinderella with various assignments. When the sisters, along with their stepmother, left for the ball, Cinderella burst into tears - she really wanted to get to this ball. It so happened that her godmother, a fairy, came to visit her. Having learned about Cinderella's desire, the fairy did not hesitate for a long time. She turned a pumpkin into a carriage, mice into horses, and a rat into a coachman. At the back of the carriage were footmen in livery who had previously been lizards. Then the fairy turned the girl's old clothes into a beautiful ball gown and presented her with rock crystal shoes. Sending Cinderella to the ball, the godmother ordered her to return before midnight, and later all magical transformations would lose their power.
The appearance of an unknown beauty in the palace did not go unnoticed. And the king, and the prince, and the guests - everyone was in awe of her beauty. The prince danced all evening with a beautiful stranger, entertained her and treated her with sweets. At some point, Cinderella even found her sisters and talked to them, but they did not recognize her at all. When there was very little time left until midnight, the beautiful stranger said goodbye to everyone and quickly left the royal palace.
The next day, Cinderella went to the ball again. But this time, she missed the moment when it was already time to leave, and she had to urgently run away from the palace. In her haste, she lost one shoe, which the prince later found.
A few days later, the prince announced that the one who would fit the glass slipper would become his wife. The shoe was tried on by all the girls in the kingdom, but it did not fit anyone. Finally, it was the turn of Cinderella and her sisters. The shoe did not fit the sisters, although they tried very hard to put it on. But Cinderella's shoe fit. And when she took out the second shoe and put it on too, everyone understood who that beautiful stranger was. Cinderella was taken to the palace, where her wedding with the prince took place.
This is the summary of the story.
The main meaning of the fairy tale "Cinderella" is that behind an unsightly appearance, people often do not notice the positive qualities of a person. The good in a fairy tale is helped to defeat the forces of good. The fairy tale "Cinderella" teaches us to help loved ones in difficult times, not to lose human dignity, to believe in goodness.
In the fairy tale, I liked the fairy godmother of Cinderella, who came to the girl's aid in time and managed to organize, literally from nothing, both a magnificent crew and a beautiful outfit for a trip to the ball.
Causes sympathy and Cinderella. Her positive qualities played a significant role in her fate. Her beauty, which was hidden from others by old, unsightly clothes, as well as her kind and sweet disposition, fascinated the prince so much that he did his best to find the mysterious owner of the glass slipper.
What proverbs fit the story?
They are greeted by clothes, escorted by mind.
Helped in time - helped twice.
As you live, so you will be known.
Cinderella is kind to everyone, especially her mouse friends Jacques and Gus. She believes that if you continue to believe, then your wish will come true. With the help of her good fairy, she gets a chance in which she lives the life of her dreams. Cinderella is a stubborn and independent young girl who is truly beautiful, largely because she doesn't let her anger and sadness get the best of her. She is kind, which in no way is perceived as something childish. She also tends to keep things to herself so as not to run into trouble later on that she would have brought if her stepmother had heard her. Cinderella is shown to be quite intelligent, especially given the way she was raised after her parents died. She has also shown herself to be very brave, not being afraid to stand up to Lady Tremaine when she teases her for wanting to go to the ball. She is also shown to be resourceful, which is evidenced by the ease with which she made herself a beautiful ball gown from her mother's old dress, while making it more modern. Cinderella is shown to be very patient and calm. She is somewhat clumsy, considering the slipper incident. While her love for the prince is incredibly strong, the desire to get married or find love was her top priority. Cinderella just wanted to live better and avoid harsh punishments from her evil stepmother. She was also very kind to her little mouse friends. She never always yells at people and she is very polite despite her stepmother being so rude to her.
Prince (Prince Charming)
The prince is in love with the main character in the 1950 film Cinderella and its two sequels. He was voiced by William Phipps (talking) and Michael Douglas (singing) in the first film, and by Christopher Daniel Barnes in the sequels, and by Matt Nolan in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep. In earlier drafts of the script, the prince originally played a larger role and had more options than he did in the final cut of the film (the third film, however, will fix this). In the old (unreleased) alternate ending, after the duke did find Cinderella, she was taken to the castle. And the prince is surprised to learn that the woman he fell in love with is just a servant, and not a noble person. But his feelings are so strong that he just hugged her, letting everyone know that he doesn’t care what class his beloved has. In the film, Prince is shown to be a man with a sense of humor who loves ballroom dancing. The prince is a romantic, his love for Cinderella was so powerful that he was ready for anything for Cinderella. Despite the fact that he is a rather elegant and wise young man, the prince defies his father.
Lady Tremaine
Unlike most other Disney villains, Lady Tremaine does not possess magical powers and is not affected in any way by physical force. She is convinced that she must be obeyed, besides, she has incredible self-control, while even her daughters she reminds that it is better to obey her. The only time she loses her temper, ironically, is when Cinderella interrupts her music lesson to bring Lady Tremaine an invitation to the royal ball, and she claps her hands and the piano keys. She has a sinister look and is very cruel towards Cinderella. Lady Tremaine is very jealous of her stepdaughter, because Cinderella is beautiful, while she behaves completely inhumanly with her adopted daughter, forcing her to be a servant in her own house. Due to Cinderella's gentle nature, she is meanly manipulating her. Almost all of Tremaine's actions are motivated by a lust for power and status, it shows, especially in those moments when she tries to marry off her daughters.
Fairy (The Fairy Godmother)
Fairy is a good friend of Cinderella, who will always support her and help her in trouble. She helped Cinderella to come to the ball. Fairy is very sweet, motherly kind and caring. She cares about people and loves to make her goddaughter, Cinderella, happy and gives happiness to her friends. The fairy is a little distracted, and almost sent Cinderella to the ball almost without a dress. Has a tendency to forget her magic words, despite these disadvantages, Fairy, and the fairy is that she manages to do a lot for her beloved goddaughter. She does not like to swear, this is evidenced by the nuance that she does not like to communicate with Cinderella's stepmother, while the soft-hearted Fairy cannot decide to turn her stepmother into a frog.
Fairy tale by Charles Perrault "Cinderella"
The main characters of the fairy tale "Cinderella" and their characteristics
- Cinderella, a young girl of 18 years old, very kind, very beautiful, hardworking. generous, charming, has every conceivable positive qualities.
- Prince, young and handsome, persistent, loyal. Easily fell in love with Cinderella.
- Stepmother, evil and not kind. She loved only her daughters, and treated Cinderella very badly.
- The sisters, the stepmother's daughters, took after their mother in character.
- Father, quiet and obedient man, henpecked
- Fairy, a sorceress who does good.
- Mother's death
- evil stepmother
- Evil sisters
- The prince gives a ball
- poppy and millet
- Fairy Appears
- Magic
- Cinderella at the ball
- Beans and peas
- Cinderella loses her shoe
- The prince is looking for the princess
- Cinderella and sisters wedding.
- Cinderella's father, after the death of his wife, marries an evil stepmother.
- The prince gives a ball, and the stepmother and her daughters go to the ball.
- The fairy gives Cinderella a carriage and horses, a beautiful dress, but warns about midnight
- Everyone likes Cinderella very much, but on the second day she forgets about the time and loses her shoe.
- The prince is looking for a beautiful stranger and the shoe suits Cinderella.
- Cinderella marries a prince.
Beauty, the ability to forgive and benevolence are the most beautiful human qualities.
What does the fairy tale "Cinderella" teach
This fairy tale teaches us to appreciate in a person his positive qualities. Do not pay attention to appearance, but judge a person by his actions. It teaches not to be angry with envious people and to be able to forgive what can be forgiven. It teaches that goodness will always be rewarded.
Review of the fairy tale "Cinderella"
I really like the fairy tale "Cinderella" because it has a completely happy ending. Of course, the behavior of the stepmother and her daughters deserves censure, but Cinderella forgave them and it's just fine. Cinderella was very beautiful and at the same time very kind, and therefore she deserved her happiness with the prince.
Signs of a fairy tale in the fairy tale "Cinderella"
- Magic transformations: carriage, horses, coachman, lackeys, dress
- Magic helper, fairy creature - fairy and magic wand.
Beauty until the evening, and kindness forever.
Whatever is done, everything is for the better.
Summary, a brief retelling of the fairy tale "Cinderella"
Until the age of 16, Cinderella lived happily with her parents, but then the girl's mother died.
Two years later, Cinderella's father married another and the stepmother began to force Cinderella to do all the housework, so the girl always walked dirty and in ashes.
Cinderella's sisters were as mean as their stepmother and found fault with Cinderella because of her beauty.
Once the prince announced that he was giving a ball for a few days and the stepmother and sisters were going to go to the ball. The stepmother expected to marry one of her daughters to a prince, and the other to a minister.
She gave Cinderella the task of separating the poppy seeds from the millet and left with her daughters.
Cinderella burst into tears, but then a beautiful fairy appeared and instantly separated the poppy from the millet.
Then she told Cinderella to bring a pumpkin and made a carriage out of it. Six mice from a mousetrap became horses, and a rat became a coachman. The fairy turned six lizards into footmen, and Cinderella's dress into a beautiful outfit of gold and silver brocade. The fairy also gave Cinderella beautiful shoes and warned that at midnight her magic would lose its power.
Cinderella went to the ball and everyone was amazed by the beauty of the unknown princess. The prince himself constantly danced with Cinderella and treated her to fruit.
And Cinderella shared oranges with her sisters and spoke politely to them.
At five minutes to twelve, Cinderella left the palace.
When the stepmother and sisters returned, they talked a lot about the princess and were angry that all the housework had been done.
The next day, the stepmother and sisters again went to the ball, and Cinderella went next, because the fairy helped her again - she separated the sack of peas from the sack of beans.
This time, Cinderella forgot about the time, and when the clock began to strike midnight, she hurriedly ran away, losing her shoe along the way.
The stepmother and sisters believed that the prince was in love with an unknown princess.
Indeed, the prince ordered all the girls in the country to try on the shoe.
Cinderella's sisters also tried it on, but the shoe did not fit anyone.
Then the prince was about to leave, but his father remembered Cinderella and the prince gave her a shoe to try on. The shoe fit just right, and Cinderella took out a second one.
The prince recognized his princess, and the fairy turned Cinderella's dress into an elegant one again.
Cinderella married a prince, and married her sisters to nobles.
Illustrations and drawings for the fairy tale "Cinderella"
CINDERELLA (fr. Cinderella) - the heroine of Ch. Perro's fairy tale "Cinderella" (1697). "Kind, friendly, sweet" - this is how the author characterizes his heroine. This is really one of the most subtle and charming images among fairy-tale heroines. 3. modest, hardworking, accommodating, benevolent. The daughter of a respectable and noble man, Z., oppressed by an evil stepmother, lives in her own house as a servant, performing, and completely meekly, all the menial household work. She cleans boilers and pans, washes ladders; she takes care of her half-sisters, who repay her with black ingratitude, sleeps in the attic under the very roof, on a prickly straw bedding, and silently endures all insults, not even daring to complain to her father. She was nicknamed Cinderella for her dress, which was always stained with ashes.
A fairy tale is a fairy tale, and 3. gets to the ball. Her fairy godmother helps her. 3. is so beautiful that the prince distinguishes her from all the ladies present, and the guests are also fascinated by the stranger. And here she would 3. take revenge on her sisters and stepmother, do something unpleasant to them, but she, on the contrary, “found them, said a few pleasant words to each, treated them to oranges and lemons, which the prince himself brought her.” Having married the prince, Z. immediately forgave the sisters for all insults, because, as Perrault writes, "she was not only pretty, but also kind."
Image 3. conquered many artists. 3. The German storytellers brothers Grimm created their own version of history (1814). The Italian composer D. Rossini wrote a lyric-comic opera based on this plot (1817), and S.S. Prokofiev wrote a ballet of the same name (1944). The domestic film "Cinderella" (1947) with Y. Zheymo in the title role (based on the play and script by E. L. Schwartz) is recognized as a classic of children's cinema.
O.G. Petrova
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Types of characters in the fairy tale "Cinderella"
main character
Before we turn to the consideration of the main character, it should be noted that in terms of its content, the tale of Cinderella has a deep social character. The main conflict of this tale can be identified as the conflict between stepmother and stepdaughter, which has deep historically established social roots.
So, the main character of the fairy tale is Cinderella, after whom the fairy tale itself is named. It is easy to see that in all the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, the main characters do not have real names. The author gives them certain nicknames, most often starting from the peculiarities of their appearance according to the principle of a stylistic means - metonymy. So is the case with Cinderella. In the plot of the tale, we see the explanation of the nickname given to her: "Lorsqu" elle avait fait son ouvrage, elle s "allait mettre au coin de la cheminee, et s" asseoir dans les cendres, ce qui faisait qu "on l" appelait communement dans le logis Culcendron. La cadette, qui n "etait pas si malhonnete que son ainee, l" appelait Cendrillon". Thus, Cinderella got her nickname because she constantly walked smeared with ash. Naturally, we are not talking about her Together with this nickname and the reason for its occurrence, we see the low position that the girl occupies in the family, which forces her to huddle, compare the frightened little animal, to the farthest, dusty corner of the house.
Of course, the word formation of these two words, expressing directly the attitude of two sisters towards Cinderella, is also of interest. So, in the original French version of the tale, these two nicknames sound like Cucendron and Cendrillon. First, the diminutive suffixes -ron/-illon help us intuitively determine the age and build of a girl. Secondly, as we have already indicated above, they can also indicate to us the relationship of two sisters to their half-sister and partly determine their level of moral qualities. Thus, in the word Cucendron, used by one of the sisters, who, as indicated, the author is more evil, we hear shades of a pejorative character. Along with this, this nickname emphasizes the humility, patience of the heroine, expressed in humility with this unpleasant name. In the word Cendrillon, used by the younger, kinder sister, we hear persistent notes of benevolence due to the petting suffix -illon.
The first thing we pay attention to when meeting Cinderella is her moral qualities, which is the author's original goal when describing the main character. So at the beginning of the work, the author writes: “Le Mari avait de son cote une jeune fille, mais d" une douceur et d "une bonte sans exemple; elle tenait cela de sa Mere, qui etait la meilleure personne du monde. The mention of the girl's mother and her kindness is also not accidental. Thus, from the very beginning, the author gives us the opportunity to contrast feminine principles, so to speak, represented by representatives of two different families, in two generations. And here, it seems acceptable to us to note the principle of binarity, which is expressed in the opposition of negative and positive principles. And it is on this opposition that the main conflict of the tale is built. The author emphasizes that Cinderella's good nature directly gave rise to hatred on the part of the evil stepmother, who "ne put souffrir les bonnes qualites de cette jeune enfant, qui rendaient ses filles encore plus haissables". This shows the divergence of the characters of this tale, generated by the envy of the mother, in relation to the soft-hearted stepdaughter, who surpassed her daughters both morally and physically. Cinderella is not only spiritually superior to them, but also much more beautiful in appearance: "... cependant Cendrillon, avec ses mechants habits, ne laissait pas d" etre cent fois plus belle que ses soeurs, quoique vetues tres magnifiquement ". Thus, in the heroine Cinderella, we see an idealized image of a beautiful and kind girl who cannot be spoiled by anything.
So, the initial situation of the tale is connected with a family conflict between the persecuted stepdaughter, her stepmother and stepsisters. The author presents us with a humiliated, oppressed girl in all respects, whose name tells us about her low social status in the family, which she acquired after the death of her own mother. Her position in the family is indicated not only by her speaking name, but also by the items of her toilet mentioned by the author, the things surrounding her, the duties imposed by her stepmother: "...avec ses mechants habit....", "Elle la chargea des plus viles occupations de la Maison: c "etait elle qui nettoyait la vaisselle et les montees, qui frottait la chambre de Madame, et celles de Mesdemoiselles ses filles...", "...elle couchait tout au haut de la maison, dans un grenier, sur une mechante paillasse...". Thus, in the face of Cinderella we see a typical heroine-victim. But we should not forget about her true origin. Thus, in the exposition of the fairy tale, the author writes about Cinderella's father: "Il etait une fois un Gentilhomme ... ". Therefore, Cinderella, being his own daughter, was actually a girl of high society, as indicated by her skills, skills and secular manners, without which she could not have made a proper impression at the ball. In support of the above, we cite example of the following passages of phrases: "elles appelerent Cendrillon pour lui demander son avis, car elle avait le gout bon. Cendrillon les conseilla le mieux du monde...”, “Elle dansa avec tant de grace...”.
An interesting fact is that during the entire development of the plot, Cinderella is not subjected to trials as such, which we are used to meeting in other fairy tales. It doesn't fight, it doesn't fight, it doesn't seek anything, it doesn't solve difficult problems. Nevertheless, from the context of the fairy tale, we understand that the very existence of Cinderella as a servant with her stepmother and half-sisters, whom she refers to as “you” and calls young ladies, is a kind of test of her moral qualities, namely her kindness. , tolerance. In a situation where the sisters are going to the ball, asking for advice from Cinderella, despite all their ridicule, the kind girl does not seek revenge: “elles appelerent Cendrillon pour lui demander son avis, car elle avait le gout bon. Cendrillon les conseilla le mieux du monde, et s "offrit meme a les coiffer; ce qu" elles voulurent bien, "Une autre que Cendrillon les aurait coiffees de travers; mais elle etait bonne, et elle les coiffa parfaitement bien. This shows the unselfishness of the girl, which undoubtedly should be rewarded, according to the laws of a fairy tale.
An important stage in the fairy tale can be called the holding of the royal ball. It marks a turning point in Cinderella's life on her way to eventual happiness. The narrative of this important event begins with the phrase "Il arriva que ...", which indicates to us some kind of intrigue that will have certain consequences. The next episode, which tells us about the preparations of the two sisters, is also of interest from a historical point of view, as it reveals to us a certain culture of the French nobility in this period. But, at this stage, we are interested in the direct role of Cinderella in this episode. And here we again meet evidence of her low position in the family: "nouvelle peine pour Cendrillon, car c" etait elle qui repassait le linge de ses soeurs et qui godronnait leurs manchettes. "It can be assumed that the above activities were of considerable difficulty during the reign of Louis On the 14th, but Cinderella had to fulfill them meekly, and this was just a new concern for her, which certainly oppressed her morally.
Preparing for such an important event as the royal ball, the sisters ask Cinderella for advice, which demonstrates the hidden significance of the poor girl in the family and her open exploitation.
Interestingly, despite her low position, Cinderella hoped to get to the royal ball. For her, this was extremely important and she wished it with all her heart, although in her case it was an unrealizable event. We feel that the existence of Cinderella in such conditions became unbearable for her. We can imagine the feelings of a young girl who feels injustice towards herself on the part of her family members, who do not give her the opportunity to open up, find herself, her true “I”, which was taken away from her with the appearance of an evil stepmother. But she could only silently experience this injustice: “Enfin l "heureux jour arriva, on partit, et Cendrillon les suivit des yeux le plus longtemps qu" elle put; lorsqu "elle ne les vit plus, elle se mit a pleurer." Attention should be paid to the phrase happy day, which can be considered dually. On the one hand, this is a happy day for the Cinderella sisters who go to the ball, but, on the other hand, we understand that for Cinderella this day was by no means happy.In this situation, we see an element of lack, expressed in injustice towards poor Cinderella, who felt very unhappy, comparing the abilities of her sisters and her own.And here the main action begins .
Cinderella, with the help of her godmother and miraculous transformations, gets the opportunity to get to the royal ball: "Elle part, ne se sentant pas de joie." At the entrance to the palace, she is met by the prince, who was informed about the arrival of some noble princess. The prince introduces her into the hall, and then the author begins to describe the impression that the “disguised” Cinderella made on everyone with her beauty: “...tant on etait attentif a contempler les grandes beautes de cette inconnue”, “Le Roi meme, tout vieux qu "il etait, ne laissait pas de la regarder et de dire tout bas a la Reine qu" il y avait longtemps qu "il n" avait vu une si belle et si aimable personne", "Toutes les Dames etaient attentives a considerer sa coiffure et ses habits, pour en avoir des le lendemain de semblables...”. It was with her beauty and appearance that Cinderella fell in love with the prince. She seemed to everyone an unknown beautiful princess. And the prince fell in love with her as a beautiful princess, and not as a grubby Cinderella. Thus, we see that in this situation, it is Cinderella's "masquerade" that gives her the opportunity to win the prince's heart at first sight, and not at all her inner qualities. An unusual outfit for Cinderella became a way for her to become what she was not at the moment. A similar technique of dressing up, reincarnation is often used in fairy tales and is a certain stage on the way to the well-deserved happiness of the main characters.
At the ball, Cinderella, having met her sisters, again shows her kindness and innocence to readers: “Elle alla s "asseoir aupres de ses soeurs, et leur fit mille honnetetes: elle leur fit part des oranges et des citrons que le Prince lui avait donnes, ce qui les etonna fort, car elles ne la connaissaient point.
The last episode of the fairy-tale action finally reveals the true face of Cinderella, which was hidden either behind the tattered rags, or behind the princess's beautiful outfits. Cinderella tries on a shoe, which, surprisingly, turns out to be her right time. And here we also find veiled evidence of the extraordinary beauty of Cinderella, her origin, since at any time, a small foot in Europe was considered a sign of beauty, miniature and high origin of a girl. The motif of the shoe in this tale is also interesting, since it is known that trying on shoes has long been a sign of election or elevation to dignity.
The search for a true hero is successfully completed, Cinderella gains social independence from her stepmother and sisters, and also gains the love of a prince.
Thus, Cinderella is rewarded for all those tests of her kindness and patience that befell the girl. The fabulous justice of a fairy tale has triumphed. By the end, the author also unexpectedly changes the usual course of things in a traditional fairy tale. So harmful and evil sisters are not punished by Cinderella, but on the contrary, she generously forgives them: “Cendrillon les releva, et leur dit, en les embrassant, qu "elle leur pardonnait de bon coeur, et qu" elle les priait de l "aimer bien toujours". Having married the prince, having found her happiness, she, as it were, shares this happiness with her half-sisters, marrying them off to nobles: "Cendrillon qui etait aussi bonne que belle, fit loger ses deux soeurs au Palais, et les maria des le jour meme a deux grands Seigneurs de la Cour". Thus, Cinderella retained all her moral qualities to the end, which also lies in the charm of a fairy tale and its educational aspect.
Full name: Ella (real name; 2015 movie Once Upon a Time), Maid, Princess Cinderella
Occupation: Servant of the Tremaine Family (formerly), Princess
Character Type: Positive
Pets: Bruno (dog), Major (horse)
Fate: Married a Prince
Goal: Get rid of your terrible life and find happiness (done)
Live Model: Helen Stanley, Scarlett Johansson
Type(s): Cinderella from the original fairy tale by Charles Perrault
« How much light is in the word "Cinderella" simple
This name is like the sun outside the window
In old shoes, always obedient and modest
She deserves to be the best of princesses.»
is a paragon of pure Walt Disney animation excellence. The picture was published in 1950. After financial stagnation and employment in the production of educational films during the war years, Disney dreamed of returning to big animated forms. Walt chose the story of Cinderella for its touching plot, for the magic of the triumph of good over evil, for the emotional appeal so necessary in that difficult post-war time. “I want to hit the viewer right in the heart,” the master said to his artists during the production process. In addition, the story of a poor dishwasher girl who turned into a princess was close to Walt and similar to his personal fate.
Character Creation
Image development and animation
Cinderella's lead animators were Mark Davis and Eric Larson. When creating the image of the heroine, there were some "disagreements" between the two animators. As with previous cartoons, at Walt Disney's urging, model actors were hired to perform game scenes as a prop for the animators. Helen Stanley (who in the future will be a live model for Princess Aurora in the cartoon "" and Anita Radcliffe in the cartoon "101 Dalmatians"). The artists drew Cinderella's animated frames from the actress's movements, which required a lot of effort. According to Walt Disney, this procedure helped to avoid unnecessary expenses for trial animation.
« Disney stated that all scenes involving human characters must first be performed by live actors to determine how they will look before starting the expensive animation process. The animators didn't like this way of working, they felt it distracted them from creating the characters. […] [The animators] realized the need for this approach and later admitted that Disney handled the situation with great subtlety.»
―Christopher Finch.
Voice acting
Approximately 400 applicants auditioned for the role of Cinderella, including actresses such as Deanna Shore and Deanna Durbin. But Walt Disney chose Eileen Woods, who at the time worked in radio and knew nothing about auditioning for the role of Cinderella. Her work colleagues invited her to sing songs from the cartoon "Cinderella" and she agreed. Then, without a word to her, Eileen's friends handed over the tapes to the Disney office. After listening to the material, Walt Disney immediately decided that he had found the voice with which his main character should speak and sing, and contacted Eileen. Right after that, Eileen Woods got the role.
Character
Cinderella is a stubborn and independent girl who never lets anger or grief get the better of her. She is very kind to those around her and is in no way portrayed as naive or infantile.
Appearance description
Cinderella is a young girl with classically beautiful features. She has medium length blonde hair, smooth white skin and bright gray eyes. At the beginning of the cartoon, she wears a brown apron sundress with a blue shirt, then puts on a beautiful blue dress with glass shoes to the ball.
Capabilities
Cinderella understands the language of animals and birds, and also knows how to communicate with her little friends in it.What did Cinderella bring?
The film premiered on February 15, 1950, as a romantic Valentine's Day gift from Disney.
The production of Cinderella, after the creative and financial decline of the war years, was associated with great risk for Disney - in the event of a failure, the studio would have been difficult to recover from the damage, because $ 2.5 million was spent on filming. But the film "was doomed to success" and since The first release brought $ 4 million, strengthening the financial position of the studio.
Over the long years of its existence, the Cinderella cartoon has not lost its magical charm. All new generations of children admire his beautiful animation, vivid emotions of the characters, wonderful music and good humor. In Cinderella, as in other Disney films, there is soul, love and some kind of invisible attraction that captures the viewer from the first minutes and does not let go until the very end.
Films, series and sequels
is a 1950 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions, based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault.
The Disney studio spent $2.5 million and six years of work on the film, from 1944 to 1950. A lot of energy was spent on experimenting with new animation techniques, creating images with three-dimensional forms and searching for new expressive means. The musical accompaniment to the film "Cinderella" consists of 6 songs, each of which is organically connected with the plot and emphasizes the most important points. These are the songs:
- "The dream will fly by chance";
- "Sing, nightingale";
- "Cinderella at work";
- "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" (magic song);
- "My love".
The film was voiced by 9 actors and actresses. In addition to them, more than sixty people worked on the picture. Among them are animators, artists, writers, composers and many other specialists. And they were all led by Walt Disney himself. After the premiere, which took place in 1950, the film was finalized and re-released on screens every seven to eight years. It has been dubbed into dozens of languages and is watched on all continents.
In the late 1980s, Cinderella was released on Home Video by Walt Disney Classics. In Russia, since the early 1990s, it has been distributed on pirated copies in one-voiced translations by Alexei Mikhalev, Mikhail Ivanov, Viktor Makhonko and others.
Plot
Once upon a time there was a girl Cinderella, who lived with her widowed father. Believing that her daughter needed a mother, her father married a widow who had two daughters - Drizella and Anastasia. After the death of her husband, Cinderella's stepmother showed her true "face" - anger, greed and hatred. She turned Cinderella into a housewife-servant and transferred the entire inheritance to herself.
As time went on, the girl became more and more beautiful, despite the fact that she did the most menacing work around the house. In addition, Cinderella had a kind heart and soul, so all the animals that lived near her house were friends with her. At home, Cinderella had friends: the dog Bruno, the horse Major, as well as mice and birds that lived nearby. Especially Cinderella made friends with Jacques, the eldest of the house mice. Cinderella pulled another mouse out of the mousetrap. She named him Gus. Every day, the girl had to perform a number of duties: feed the chickens, take care of the owner's cat Lucifer, and cook food for her stepmother and her daughters.
One morning, the mouse Gus was running from the cat Lucifer chasing him. Escaping, he climbed under Anastasia's teacup. Anastasia, seeing that a mouse was hiding under the cup, blamed Cinderella for everything. Her stepmother added housework to her. At this time, in the palace, the king was worried about whom to marry his son-prince. He really wanted grandchildren and therefore sent his duke to deliver an invitation to the ball to all the young ladies of the kingdom.
Meanwhile at home, Cinderella is given invitations to a ball at the palace. She enters the room where her stepmother's daughter is singing. When Cinderella asks if she can go to the ball too, the stepsisters start laughing at her. To this Cinderella replies that every girl has the right to attend the ball. The stepmother agrees with her, saying that she can go to the ball if she redoes all the housework and finds herself a suitable dress. The stepmother forbids Cinderella to take her mother's old dress, and, in addition, she gives her a huge amount of homework. Wanting to help Cinderella, the mice successfully make her a dress.
However, the sisters, seeing Cinderella in a beautiful dress, in wild anger tear her dress and drive the girl away. After that, she and her mother go to the ball. Cinderella is crying. Just then, the fairy godmother appears and provides Cinderella with everything she needs to travel to the ball. She turns mice into horses, Bruno the dog into a footman, Major's horse into a coachman, a pumpkin into a carriage, and her torn dress into a beautiful snow-white-blue ball gown. For all this, the fairy was enough to say: "Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!". Cinderella leaves for the ball, and the fairy godmother warns her that she must return before midnight, because at midnight all her magic will return back.
At the ball, the prince does not pay any attention to the girls who have arrived. This fact greatly upsets the king. The duke already convinces him that the ball was started in vain, but just at that time Cinderella appears at the ball, the prince approaches her, and the king interrupts the duke's speech. However, when he sees Cinderella, the prince immediately takes her by the hand and begins to dance with her. The king asks his duke to make sure that no one interferes with them. The stepmother tries to get a closer look at Cinderella, but the duke interferes with her by closing the curtain, behind which Cinderella and the prince are hiding. Meanwhile, it was midnight. The clock chimes and Cinderella runs away.
Everyone rushes in pursuit of her, but the girl manages to quietly return home. One of the glass slippers remained on her foot. Returning to the palace, the duke tells the king about the misfortune that had happened, although before the king had terribly dispersed and wanted to hack the duke, until the latter showed the shoe. Then the satisfied king offers to look for the prince's bride by the shoe that Cinderella lost when she ran down the stairs.
The next morning, it is announced in the kingdom that the girl who fits the glass slipper is the prince's bride. The stepmother, having heard the news, informs her ugly daughters about it. Cinderella hears the stepmother's conversation with her daughters, begins to hum the melody that they sang with the prince when they danced, while leaving for the tower where she lives to change clothes. Realizing that Cinderella is the same girl with whom the prince danced, her stepmother tricks her into locking her there.
The duke arrives at the stepmother's house. The mice discreetly pull out a key from their stepmother's pocket and carry it to Cinderella. Their stepmother's cat named Lucifer interferes with them, but Bruno the dog chases him away. Cinderella opens the door. One of the stepmother's daughters, Anastasia, begins unsuccessfully trying on a shoe, which turns out to be disproportionately small for her. Drizella then tries to put the shoe on, causing her foot to twist beyond belief.
The duke is about to leave, when suddenly Cinderella appears on the stairs and asks to try on a shoe. The stepmother tries to prevent this by saying that Cinderella is a simple servant, but the Duke sternly reminds her that any girl should try on the shoe. The footman runs to Cinderella with a shoe, but at that moment the stepmother gives him a cane, the footman falls, drops the shoe and it breaks. The duke is frightened, not knowing what threatens him now from the king. However, Cinderella takes out a second shoe from her apron pocket. The Duke is delighted, and the stepmother is shocked by such an unexpected turn. Then the sisters realized what kind of girl she was at the ball and asked Cinderella for forgiveness for all the insults that she suffered from them. And Cinderella forgave them wholeheartedly. The cartoon ends with a scene of a cheerful and happy wedding.
Production
Released at the junction of Disney's early works of the 1930s and more classical forms of drawing in the 1940s, Cinderella was received less enthusiastically by critics. "Cinderella" was the first cartoon released after the Second World War ("", 1942). World War II, and the resulting decline in distribution, forced Disney to release a number of low-cost films such as "" and "" during the 1940s. The short version of the cartoon was created by Walt Disney himself back in 1922.
The cartoon won the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival in 1951. Walt Disney won a special award at the 1950 Cannes Film Festival for the cartoon.
The prototype for Cinderella was the actress Ingrid Bergman.
The key to Cinderella's success would lie in combining a famous, time-honed story with wit and hilariousness to freshen up the tale and adapt it to a modern audience. Cinderella was a big risk for Disney - if he failed with it, the studio would probably stop funding feature films. But the film was a success, grossing $4,000,000 in its first release, raising the studio's financial position to its highest level since 1938. Walt Disney has reduced the risk of working on Cinderella to a minimum. There was to be no ambiguity, no "wrong turn" that could lower the film's revenue. Instead of embarking on endless and expensive experiments with story structure and the natural movement of characters, Disney opted to use live actors to create most of the shots. The shots were studied as much as possible, and the main movements were carefully tracked. One of the film's artistic uses was the intricate color modeling by Claude Coates and Mary Blair. Cool colors were used heavily to create the backgrounds to make the characters appear even more vivid and alive in contrast. The same technique was later used by Michael Giaimo when creating "" (1995).
Heroes
At the beginning of the project, Disney wanted to turn to the image of Snow White, but ultimately decided to reveal to the world a completely new princess who would be a worthy successor to everyone's beloved Snow White.
To create the image of a beautiful maid, 18-year-old actress Helen Stanley was involved, who breathed life into her fairy-tale character. Eric Larson, one of the studio's artists, praised Helen's role in creating the Cinderella character, acknowledging that the actress was a great inspiration to the animators in creating a convincingly realistic girl. In a 1956 issue of The Mickey Mouse Club, Helen even recreated her performance as Cinderella, wearing the same costume she wore during the film's sketches.
It is noteworthy that Helen Stanley served as a living model for her half-sister Drizella.
Also, the popular radio singer Ilene Woods had a profound influence on creating a heartfelt image of Cinderella, endowing the beautiful princess with a wonderful voice. It is noteworthy that after a trial of 350 performers, Walt Disney, having heard Ilene's singing, got excited. The singer was immediately hired to voice Cinderella. The songs from the film became hits at the time of its release and have remained so to this day.
As a result, the image of Cinderella is perfectly revealed in the animation - the heroine turned out to be alive and touching, the viewer feels her pain, joy, sadness and, at the same time, the presence of a strong spirit.
Like Snow White surrounded by funny dwarfs, the new princess needed a fast-paced, comedic setting. “We have to make little friends for Cinderella,” said Walt. These funny characters are ... mice - smart Jacques and chubby Gus made up a delightful comic duet.
Other animals surrounding Cinderella are also interesting. Especially notable is the cat Lucifer.
Creation
The shooting of the picture lasted six years, from 1944 to 1950. Several dozen people worked on the film. Among them are actors who voiced characters, directors, artists, animators, writers, composers and other creative professionals. Walt Disney himself supervised the entire work process.
Especially a lot of effort was spent on the search for a new animation technique, the creation of three-dimensional forms and the use of new expressive means. And, as always, the animation of the cartoon meets the highest standards.
Almost the entire picture was created using the latest Live Action technique for that time - first, real actors were filmed, then they were outlined.
One of the creative techniques of the painting is the complex modeling of colors. Most of the film's background is made up of cold colors that set off the characters and make them even more vivid and alive.
Characters of characters are reflected in their appearance. Each hero has his own personality, his own facial expression: Cinderella is kind and honest, the stepmother is cold and evil, the king is good-natured and a little strict. Drawn characters are so similar to real people! What are the sleepy Cinderella, the funny muzzles of mice, the stepmother darkening with anger!
Mark Davis, who created the memorable moment of Cinderella's rags turning into a shimmery sequined dress, recalled that when asked by a studio guest about his favorite animation, Walt Disney replied, "Well, I guess that's where Cinderella got her dress."
The landscapes of the picture are both fabulous and realistic at the same time. Nature drawn to the smallest detail, Cinderella's house and the royal palace are admired - all the details are so beautifully and reliably depicted. It is felt that incredible work and soul of its creators have been invested in the film. Maybe that's what makes Disney movies so unique, unforgettable and loved.
The film's music is also great. The story of Cinderella is accompanied by six songs, each of which emphasizes the most important moments of the plot: "Cinderella", "Cinderella at work", "Bibbidi-Babbidi-Boo", "Yes, this is love", "Your dreams are born in the heart" and "Sing , nightingale. Beautiful voices and melodies make songs memorable.
The magical song "Bibbidy-Babbidi-Boo" ("Bibbidy-Bobbidi-Boo") was nominated for an Oscar as the best song.
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Awards and nominations
1950- Special Prize of the Venice Film Festival, nomination for the "Golden Lion";
1951- Prize of the Berlin Film Festival "Golden Bear" for the best musical, Audience Award "Big Bronze Plate";
1951- Academy Award nominations for Best Sound, Best Song and Best Score for Musical Pictures;
1960- nomination of the Berlin Film Festival for the prize "Golden Bear".
Cinderella is also the second Disney princess and the eighth oldest of them all - she is 17 years old.
Cinderella's stepmother looks like Maleficent, the evil witch from Sleeping Beauty.
When Cinderella sings "Sing, sweet nightingale," three air bubbles form the ears and head of Mickey Mouse, the hallmark of the Disney studio.
After its release, the film was revised every seven to eight years.
Cinderella has been translated into many languages and is watched and loved all over the world.
The transformation of Cinderella's tattered clothes into a ball gown was Walt Disney's most beloved animation moment from his film.
Cinderella is the second official Disney princess, having joined the franchise in 1950 after Snow White (1937).
Although this was only the second introduction of a Disney princess, the main character's story preceded Snow White in the 1922 animated short.
Cinderella is the first Disney princess whose image was based on the fairy tales of Charles Perrault (the second was Aurora).
Cinderella is the second Disney princess to receive a feature film many years after the original cartoon. The first was Aurora, and the third will be Belle.
Cinderella is the second oldest Disney princess after Elsa, who at the time of the coronation in the cartoon Cold heart was 21 years old.
Cinderella is the first princess whose childhood was shown on screen.
Cinderella's hair color is a big controversy among fans. In the original cartoon, they appear to be light red. In the Disney franchise and parks, Cinderella's hair is represented as bright yellow.
Cinderella's features and facial expressions are similar to Alice from the cartoon Alice in Wonderland(1951) and Cartoon Wendy Peter Pan (1953).
Cinderella is the second orphan princess.
Like Snow White, Cinderella spends most of her life without a father. Instead, she is under the care of a cruel and envious stepmother. Both heroines were forced to become servants in their own home.
Shoes also became a symbolic message. Cinderella is so delicate that she can walk in glass shoes and not break them.
Cinderella is the only princess who wears the attire of a simple maid in the castle. Other princesses wear royal attire when they are in their kingdom.
Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True
- a full-length cartoon, released in 2002 by The Walt Disney Company, the release took place immediately on DVD. The cartoon is a sequel to the 1950 cartoon Cinderella. The cartoon combines 3 stories, in the style of the animated series. The same approach was used in
Plot
Mice Gus and Jacques are in a hurry to the fairy, who should read them a fairy tale about Cinderella. They are late for the fairy tale, so they ask to tell a new one, but the fairy says that there is only one fairy tale about Cinderella. Then the mice have the idea to write their own book with stories about Cinderella. The fairy helps them with magic, and the mice, remembering some interesting story related to Cinderella, immediately write it down in their book.
The first story is about Cinderella's first days after her wedding at the castle. The prince asks her to arrange a royal holiday, promising to help, but then it turns out that the king is planning another event of national importance. Then he takes the prince with him on a trip, leaving Cinderella in the care of Prudence, a court lady with tough morals who adheres to the old ways. Her task is to make a real princess out of Cinderella before the king and prince return. But Cinderella doesn't quite like Prudence's ways, and she decides to do everything her own way...
In the second story, the main character becomes Cinderella's best friend, the mouse Jacques, who, mistakenly believing that Cinderella does not need him now, since she is now a princess, wanted to become a man. He thought he would have fewer problems that way. The fairy godmother fulfills his request with the help of a magic wand - she makes a man out of Jacques. But it turns out that he is not adapted to human life, and he has much more problems than when he was a mouse...
In the third story, Anastasia, Cinderella's half-sister, walking with her mother and sister through the village market in search of the best fabric for a ball gown, enters a bakery and meets with a baker. Mutual sympathy arises between them, and a conversation is struck up, but Lady Tremaine, having previously criticized the baker as being no match for Anastacia, takes the girl and leaves. Cinderella and her friends are watching this situation through the bakery window. They decide to unite the lovers by all means.
Having finished writing the book, the mice rush to Cinderella to please her with a gift.
Cinderella 3: Evil Spell
is a feature-length animated film by DisneyToon Studios, released in 2007 straight to DVD. The cartoon was released on February 6, 2007 and was rated G (no age limit) by the MPAA.
Plot
Cinderella and the prince are celebrating their wedding anniversary, and the fairy godmother, along with Jacques and Gus, Cinderella's mouse friends, have a festive picnic for them in the forest. During the celebration, the fairy accidentally loses her magic wand, and the wand ends up in the hands of Lady Treyman's evil stepmother. She and her daughters decide to take revenge on Cinderella. With the help of a magic wand, the stepmother returns time to the moment when the duke was looking all over the kingdom for a girl who lost her shoe at the ball. Thanks to the magic wand, the shoe fit Anastasia. When Cinderella arrives, it turns out that it's already late - Anastasia and the duke went to the castle.
Cinderella decides to go to the castle - after all, the prince remembers with whom he danced. But the stepmother manages to enchant the prince, and now he thinks that he was dancing with Anastasia. Cinderella finds the prince, but he no longer remembers her. She finds out that her stepmother has a magic wand and decides to steal it, but fails. The stepmother orders the guards to put Cinderella on the ship, which sails today. The mice find the prince and tell him that his stepmother hypnotized him and that he really loves Cinderella.
The prince is trying to catch the ship's departure. Cinderella returns and begins to prepare for the wedding, but the stepmother sneaks into Cinderella's room, falsely saying that she agrees that the prince will marry her, but in fact she turned Anastasia into Cinderella. They order Lucifer to make sure that Cinderella can never return to the castle. The wedding begins, and Cinderella, who has finished with the treacherous cat Lucifer, manages to escape and make it before the wedding begins. Lady Treiman and Drizella are turned into toads, while Anastasia turns into herself. A good fairy appears and takes her wand. Cinderella and the prince are getting married again.
Creation:
When Frank Nissen, the director of Cinderella 3, was finishing work on another Disney cartoon "", the studio administrators offered him to direct a new Cinderella film, to which Nissen agreed. The filming process for Cinderella 3 lasted more than two years, from the beginning of 2004 to the end of 2006.
For the roles of the characters in Cinderella 3, Frank Nissen chose the same actors that voiced the characters in the previous sequel, Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True. According to director Nissen:
Everyone knows their voices. They are the voices that the company uses throughout. Every time they need Cinderella somewhere, whether it's on the radio or somewhere in the [Disneyland] parks where the voice should be part of the show, they use these people. They know the characters really well and they are very good actors. It's just an unbreakable thing.
Music:
The music and songs of Cinderella 3, such as "Best of the Best" (Eng. Perfectly Perfect), "More than a dream" (eng. More Than a Dream), "Anastasia's Song" and "At the Ball" (eng. At the Ball) were written by composers Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner. The final composition for the cartoon "I still believe" (eng. I still believe) was written by fellow composers Matthew Gerrard and Bridget Benenate, and performed by American actress and singer Hayden Panettiere. A music video was later shot for the song and included in the Cinderella 3 DVD extras. An official soundtrack for the animated film has yet to be released.
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Cinderella's Castle is an attraction in the Magic Kingdom park, which is part of the Disney World entertainment center, which is the official symbol of both the park and the entire center. There is also a similar castle at Disneyland in Tokyo. In addition, the role of Cinderella in front of park visitors is played by actresses dressed as the heroine. In 2012, Cinderella, along with other Disney princesses, became the heroine of the Princess Fairytale Hall attraction in the Magic Kingdom park, replacing the Snow White's Scary Adventures attraction.
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Cinderella is the central heroine of Ch. Perrault's fairy tale "Cinderella, or the Shoe trimmed with fur" ("Cendrillon ou La petite pantoufle de vair", publ. 1697), the daughter of a nobleman, a girl of "unparalleled meekness and kindness."
At the insistence of her stepmother, she performed all the menial work around the house. She prepares dresses and combs her stepmother and her two daughters for the ball given by the king's son. The godmother (sorceress) sees the grief of Cinderella, who was not taken to the ball, and helps her go there by turning mice, a pumpkin, etc. in a horse-drawn carriage, her squalid dress in a luxurious outfit, giving her shoes trimmed with fur, but setting the condition to leave the ball before midnight, when the magic ends. Cinderella went to the ball twice, and then she listened to stories from her stepmother and her daughters about the beautiful princess, whom the prince was carried away by. But the second time she was almost late to leave the ball before midnight and, running away, dropped one shoe. The prince, in search of a beautiful stranger, orders all women to try on the found shoe: the one to whom it will fit will become his wife. The shoe turned out to be too small for the daughters of the stepmother, but Cinderella came up, then she took out the second shoe. The appearance of the godmother turns Cinderella's dress into an even more beautiful outfit than those in which she appeared at the balls. The sisters ask her for forgiveness for their bad treatment, and Cinderella forgives them. The prince marries Cinderella, and she marries her two sisters to noble courtiers.
The name of the heroine in Perro's tale is unknown, only nicknames are given (Zamarashka, Cinderella). Her appearance is indeterminate: her stepmother and sisters cannot recognize her in a different outfit (cf. Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Puss in Boots, Donkey Skin). The fairy-tale world of Perrault is strange: faces are not visible in it, voices are not distinguished, only things have certainty. Such is the shoe trimmed with fur (due to the fact that in some French editions the word "vair" - "fur for the trim" was mistakenly replaced by the word "verre" - "glass", in translations of Perrault's fairy tales into a number of languages, including and into Russian, an exquisite, but incomprehensible image of the “glass shoe” appeared).
The fairy tale emphasizes the kindness of Cinderella, which corresponds to the fundamental position set forth by Perrault in the preface to the publication of three poetic tales (1695), which was directed against the call of the "ancient" to imitate antique samples: in ancient tales there are no moral instructions, but "tales composed by by our ancestors for their children - they told them not with such grace and embellishment as the Greeks and Romans decorated their myths; they have always taken great care to ensure that their tales contain a laudable and instructive morality. Everywhere in them virtue is rewarded and vice is punished. They all strive to show how profitable it is to be honest, patient, reasonable, hardworking, obedient, and what evil befalls those who are not like that. However, the poetic “Moral”, which concludes the tale, speaks not of kindness, but of grace, which only one can conquer hearts: “Not a step without him, but at least the kingdom with him.”
Even more playful is the thought in "Another Morality": "But the best gifts will remain useless, / Until he decides to bewitch for us / At least a gossip, at least an amiable kumanek ...". This contradiction was eliminated by the fact that the poetic "Morals" completely fell out of the consciousness of the reading public, only the main plot was preserved.
The source of the image of Cinderella dates back to ancient times and to the early stages of the development of human society. The representative of the mythological school P. Sentive believed that Cinderella is the "Queen of Ashes", personifying the arrival of spring and the spring carnival; the stepmother is the old year, and her daughters are January and February (the pre-spring months of the new year); Cinderella's costume, her carriage, her servants are of a ritual carnival character. V. R. Cox in a study of 1893 identifies 345 variants of the plot about Cinderella. In literature, it is first found in the "Geography" of the Greek scholar Strabo (c. 63 BC - c. 20 AD), who relied on the missing ancient Egyptian
Fairy tale by Charles Perrault "Cinderella"
The main characters of the fairy tale "Cinderella" and their characteristics
- Cinderella, a young girl of 18 years old, very kind, very beautiful, hardworking. generous, charming, has every conceivable positive qualities.
- Prince, young and handsome, persistent, loyal. Easily fell in love with Cinderella.
- Stepmother, evil and not kind. She loved only her daughters, and treated Cinderella very badly.
- The sisters, the stepmother's daughters, took after their mother in character.
- Father, quiet and obedient man, henpecked
- Fairy, a sorceress who does good.
- Mother's death
- evil stepmother
- Evil sisters
- The prince gives a ball
- poppy and millet
- Fairy Appears
- Magic
- Cinderella at the ball
- Beans and peas
- Cinderella loses her shoe
- The prince is looking for the princess
- Cinderella and sisters wedding.
- Cinderella's father, after the death of his wife, marries an evil stepmother.
- The prince gives a ball, and the stepmother and her daughters go to the ball.
- The fairy gives Cinderella a carriage and horses, a beautiful dress, but warns about midnight
- Everyone likes Cinderella very much, but on the second day she forgets about the time and loses her shoe.
- The prince is looking for a beautiful stranger and the shoe suits Cinderella.
- Cinderella marries a prince.
Beauty, the ability to forgive and benevolence are the most beautiful human qualities.
What does the fairy tale "Cinderella" teach
This fairy tale teaches us to appreciate in a person his positive qualities. Do not pay attention to appearance, but judge a person by his actions. It teaches not to be angry with envious people and to be able to forgive what can be forgiven. It teaches that goodness will always be rewarded.
Review of the fairy tale "Cinderella"
I really like the fairy tale "Cinderella" because it has a completely happy ending. Of course, the behavior of the stepmother and her daughters deserves censure, but Cinderella forgave them and it's just fine. Cinderella was very beautiful and at the same time very kind, and therefore she deserved her happiness with the prince.
Signs of a fairy tale in the fairy tale "Cinderella"
- Magic transformations: carriage, horses, coachman, lackeys, dress
- Magic helper, fairy creature - fairy and magic wand.
Beauty until the evening, and kindness forever.
Whatever is done, everything is for the better.
Summary, a brief retelling of the fairy tale "Cinderella"
Until the age of 16, Cinderella lived happily with her parents, but then the girl's mother died.
Two years later, Cinderella's father married another and the stepmother began to force Cinderella to do all the housework, so the girl always walked dirty and in ashes.
Cinderella's sisters were as mean as their stepmother and found fault with Cinderella because of her beauty.
Once the prince announced that he was giving a ball for a few days and the stepmother and sisters were going to go to the ball. The stepmother expected to marry one of her daughters to a prince, and the other to a minister.
She gave Cinderella the task of separating the poppy seeds from the millet and left with her daughters.
Cinderella burst into tears, but then a beautiful fairy appeared and instantly separated the poppy from the millet.
Then she told Cinderella to bring a pumpkin and made a carriage out of it. Six mice from a mousetrap became horses, and a rat became a coachman. The fairy turned six lizards into footmen, and Cinderella's dress into a beautiful outfit of gold and silver brocade. The fairy also gave Cinderella beautiful shoes and warned that at midnight her magic would lose its power.
Cinderella went to the ball and everyone was amazed by the beauty of the unknown princess. The prince himself constantly danced with Cinderella and treated her to fruit.
And Cinderella shared oranges with her sisters and spoke politely to them.
At five minutes to twelve, Cinderella left the palace.
When the stepmother and sisters returned, they talked a lot about the princess and were angry that all the housework had been done.
The next day, the stepmother and sisters again went to the ball, and Cinderella went next, because the fairy helped her again - she separated the sack of peas from the sack of beans.
This time, Cinderella forgot about the time, and when the clock began to strike midnight, she hurriedly ran away, losing her shoe along the way.
The stepmother and sisters believed that the prince was in love with an unknown princess.
Indeed, the prince ordered all the girls in the country to try on the shoe.
Cinderella's sisters also tried it on, but the shoe did not fit anyone.
Then the prince was about to leave, but his father remembered Cinderella and the prince gave her a shoe to try on. The shoe fit just right, and Cinderella took out a second one.
The prince recognized his princess, and the fairy turned Cinderella's dress into an elegant one again.
Cinderella married a prince, and married her sisters to nobles.
Illustrations and drawings for the fairy tale "Cinderella"