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Cinderella: Sisters
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Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (1988), in which Cinderella is one of many fairy tale characters who take part in the plot. The Cinderella here is of the Grimm Brothers version, including the enchanted birds, mother's grave, three balls, and mutilation and blinding of the step-sisters.
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Cinderella has returned home and remembers the Ball as if it were a beautiful dream. She is brought back to reality by the return of her Stepmother and Stepsisters. Eventually the Prince arrives in search of the owner of the glass slipper. He is welcomed eagerly by the family, and the two Sisters try desperately to force their feet into the slipper, but to no avail. Finally the Stepmother demands to try on the shoe and manages to make it fit. True to his word, the Prince offers to marry the objectionable woman.
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Anyone but Cinderella would have dressed their heads awry, but she was very good, and dressed them perfectly well. The sisters were almost two days without eating,23 so much were they transported with joy. They broke above a dozen laces24 in trying to be laced up close, that they might have a fine slender shape, and they were continually at their looking-glass. At last the happy day came; they went to Court, and Cinderella followed them with her eyes as long as she could, and when she had lost sight of them, she fell a-crying.25
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The North American Indian Cinderella legends form an interestingly coherent group. From tribes of different geographic regions, including the Algonquin and the Ojibwa, come stories about the Rough Faced Girl who is sorely mistreated by her two older sisters. Against all odds, she competes with them for the affections of a mighty invisible warrior and hunter, whose heart she wins with her kindness and honesty.
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Cinderella was glad that it had not been worse. She returned home, lit her simple oil lamp, hung it in the chimney, and lay down in the ashes. Before long the two sisters returned, and called out, "Cinderella, get up and light the way for us."
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[W]hen they had cried that, the two came flying down and placed themselves on Cinderella's shoulders, one on the right, the other on the left, and remained sitting there. When the wedding with the king's son was to be celebrated, the two false sisters came and wanted to get into favor with Cinderella and share her good fortune. When the betrothed couple went to church, the elder was at the right side and the younger at the left, and the pigeons pecked out one eye from each of them. Afterwards as they came back the elder was at the left, and the younger at the right, and then the pigeons pecked out the other eye from each. And ... for their wickedness and falsehood, they were punished with blindness all their days.
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