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Fairy Tales: Cinderellas
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[T]he effect of classic fairy tales on readers and society can be explored by studying their characters. One important kind of characters in fairy tales is the heroes and heroines. They seem to be a vital element in every fairy tale. It is common that they must strive and overcome many difficulties, challenges and obstacles in order to get triumph. For example, in "Sleeping Beauty", the prince has to pass through many thorns before he can save the beautiful princess. Furthermore, in "Cinderella", Cinderella has been commanded to do a lot of hard housework before she marries the prince and lives happily ever after.
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Fairy tales, folk tales, and folk belief have frequently entered the learned arts. Opera repeatedly adopted folk tale plots, such as several Tom Thumb operas in England in the early eighteenth century, Il paese della Cuccagna (The Land of Cockaigne, 1750) as well as operas based on fairy tales, such as Cendrillon (Cinderella, 1759), Zémire et Azor (1771), Raoul Barbe-bleue (Raoul Bluebeard, 1789), and Aladdin (1789). Much the same is true of ballet. In England, folk belief ... penetrated Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595).
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A final point about fairy tale style is the common use of the number "three" in many classic fairy tales. It is usual that a fairy tale has three main characters, three incidents or three tasks. In "The Three Little Pigs", there are three main characters — the three lovely pigs. In "Cinderella", Cinderella’s father has three daughters, namely Cinderella and her two stepsisters. Besides, in "Snow White", the Queen tries three times to kill Snow White. In practice, the number "three" symbolizes perfection and completeness.
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