Cinderella

Cinderella In reviewing the transition of Cinderella’s tale, an apparent difference arises from entertainment and optimism replacing didactics and morals. This is due to the changing view of childhood throughout the centuries; much like the aspect of romanticizing the child became a plague in children’s literature during the time of the Grimm brothers. Now the modern child in the twenty-first century may not have the similar life experiences, that is death, slavery or amputation is not common to see, but they are certainly made aware of those events through television. The setback to that is the explicit presentation of the media ceases the use of imagination. Since the events that children are familiar too shift, therefore, literature must also make an adjustment to spark the interest of a child. Another change present is the length: the modern version is one page (without illustrations) while the nineteenth century version is five. In view of this, two probable reasons of such shortage are that children have a short attention span, and the other is that there is room for the use of imagination. Instead of a child reading that Cinderella wore “splendid silver dress…silver slippers” from the later version, “wonderful ball dress” allows child, version, cinderella, children, setting, modern, theme, one, because, ball, tale, since, removal, present, peas, mother’s, make, life, imagination, goes, death, childhood, character, another, view, through, though, sorting, role, removed, prince, open, literature, honest, grimm, good