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Cinderella: Prince
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When Cinderella arrived, the prince was waiting for her at the stairway. He escorted her into the hall. If everyone had been astounded at her beauty yesterday, today they were even more astounded. The sisters stood in the corner, pale with envy. If they had known that this was Cinderella, who they thought was at home lying in the ashes, they would have died of jealousy.
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There have been hundreds if not thousands of literary, dramatic, musical, poetic, and cinematic versions of ‘Cinderella’ since the early 19th century, and the ‘heroine’ of the story has become the icon of a ragsâ€toâ€riches success story. Certainly, this is the way she is portrayed in the famous Disney film of 1950. However, since the 1970s, many feminist and postmodern writers have questioned the passive aspects of a girl who waits for her prince, and the term ‘Cinderella complex’ has come to stand for a troubled woman who cannot determine her own destiny. Whatever the ‘truth’ may be, contemporary writers such as Anne Sexton, Wendy Walker, Peter Redgrove, Jane Yolen, Roald Dahl, Tanith Lee, and Angela Carter have explored the complex of the fictional Cinderella in ways that would astound the classical writers of this tale.
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Here Cinderella's widower father takes a second wife, a dominating woman with two daughters. She despises Cinderella's goodness, as it highlights her own daughters' weaknesses, so makes her a servent in her own kitchen. The Prince announces he is to give a ball for all the maidens of the kingdom. Cinderella helps her sisters prepare for the ball but is forbidden to attend herself. Her fairy godmother appears and transforms a pumpkin, mice, rats and lizards into footmen, a coach and horses for Cinderella. She gives her fine new clothes, but with the warning that she must leave the ball before midnight.
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When evening came Cinderella wanted to leave, and the prince tried to escort her, but she ran away from him so quickly that he could not follow her. The prince... had set a trap. He had had the entire stairway smeared with pitch. When she ran down the stairs, her left slipper stuck in the pitch. The prince picked it up. It was small and dainty, and of pure gold.
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Cinderella is probably one of the most popular Disney movies ever created. It is a well-known that portrays the typical fairytale lifestyle with a happy ending marked by Cinderella and Prince Charming's marriage. One can argue that this is one of the greatest stories in the history of story-telling times.
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There were operatic versions of Cinderella such as Ferdinand Langer's Aschenbrödel at Mannheim in 1878, derived from the darker Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm. However, rather than using the Grimm ending, where the sisters mutilated their feet and were blinded, this opera reverted to Cinderella's reconciliation with the sisters as in Perrault. Other notable opera-versions include Jules Massenet's 1899 Cendrillon for the Paris Opéra (with its fantasy meeting for Cinderella and her Prince after the Ball) and Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's La Cenerentola, first performed in Venice in 1900.
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