Cindarella

 
 
Many of us identify with a character, or want to be like a character, and we seem to subconsciously follow and live out the tale without ever realizing it. I always questioned meanings of stories told to me, but I was never given the answers I was looking for. I always felt somehow that these stories were meant to control me, and of course I always rebelled. My favorite myth growing up was the Creation Story of Genesis in the Bible. The fascination for me was God creating new things, and transforming what we would perceive as nothing into something remarkable. I will not use this story though, for purely superstitious reasons (just in case). I would like to use the story of Cinderella not that I really think that I am like her, but that I seem to have been pushed into living this story somehow, repeatedly. “If your good and do everything your told, your prince will come and rescue you.” “If your a good little girl you will go to heaven.” “If this, if that, you can’t do this, you can’t do that.” Personally, I liked the Fairy god mother - she had it altogether, she was good and she had power and she was free to live her own life and make her own decisions. I realized that Cinderella is more than a fairy ta

 
 
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The announcement by the king is the call, the moment that offers the possibility of something out to the ordinary. The king invites all eligible women to the ball. The reason for the ball will be that his son is of age. The heir apparent, the crown prince, must choose a bride so that the kingdom can go on. Royalty may represent the sacred realm, suggesting an opening to her higher self.

The moment she walks in the ball, the prince notices her. He was uninterested in her step sisters or anyone else at the ball. Everyone is trying to figure out who she is, but no one recognizes her. They dance and the prince instantly falls in love with her. Cinderella must leave because the clock is striking midnight. Perhaps this signifies that she has been dancing around her problems, and time is of the essence. Telling her to get on with her life, and the apparent need for growth and development (Myss 109), She runs away and leaves behind her glass slipper, representing her true identity.

Cinderella found an old dress, left for her by her mother. This is simultaneously a link to her mother and a return to her true nobility. Cinderella’s familiars worked on the dress while she completed her chores. Cinderella in haste ran down the stairs all ready for the ball. The step sisters seen that she was more beautiful than them, and shredded her dress to pieces. The step sisters may represent her vain qualities of self-importance. They want the prince for material advantages and to make the others envious. Symbolic of the Uroboros digesting itself. They leave for the ball without Cinderella.

In the Walt Disney’s version, the mother passes away, and the father is left to care for his daughter. I feel, that Cinderella’s initial mother and father represented the Uroboros and paradise. The father felt that she was in need of a mother figure and remarried a widow and her two daughters. The fall from paradise is represented when her father dies leaving he


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