Essay on Cinderella and its appropriation the movie "ever After". provide insight into the way values have been maintained and changed.

Cinderella is one of the oldest and Cinderella has been diffused through countless cultures. This text has been appropriated into several forms, including novels, plays, films, and even operas and ballets. Ever after is just one appropriation of the original literary version of Cinderella, The Glass Slipper by Charles Perrault. Both these texts follow similar themes and ideas to the original folk-tale, however vary through their respective culture contexts. Both The Glass Slipper and Ever …showed first 75 words of 1100 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1100 total…the Glass Slipper would not relate at all to a 20th century audience, such as the illegitimate bitterness of the stepmother, and the importance of beauty and grace. The story line has been adopted to produce Ever After to portray more appropriate themes such as womanhood, the nature/nurture aspects of parenting, love, respect, and heroism in every individual. The themes, and the audience equally contribute to showing how culturally based both these texts are.