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Archetypes In Cinderella

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Ladies claim that males treat women badly, but females treat other girls even worse. My cousin works at a teen clothing store. She claims that employees compliment the customers to buy the items. In reality, the customers look really bad in the clothing item. By the way, the customers are primarily women. How can female employees lie to customers who are the same gender in order to get a paycheck? In many situations: fairy tales, politics, and movies have women degrading female archetypes either by abusing their powers, mocking women or revenge.
First example, Cinderella, a story where women degrades other females. The mother is a witch due to her many demands on Cinderella. The witch archetype tends to use her powers and make other people …show more content…

She lives in a tower with a witch, Dame Gothel, and is known for her long beautiful blonde hair. The archetype of the hag fits into the witch character. The archetype of the hag tends to be jealous of other people. The witch was jealous of Rapunzel’s parents. The witch wanted a royal lifestyle, however, the witch was put into a tall tower far from the castle. To overcome her jealousy of the kingdom, the hag kidnaps Rapunzel. As for Rapunzel, she plays the princess in a damsel in distress. Her character obeys the witch and tries not escape the tower until she meets the prince. Dame Gothel controls Rapunzel’s freedom and stops her from exploring. The two famous fairy tales: Cinderella and Rapunzel have mother figures who are controlling the princesses …show more content…

Both are level-headed strong women. Sarah’s archetype is the royal archetype. She is outspoken and does not like Hillary. Based on Motto Time, the article states that Palin visited the White House in April of 2017, where she was having lunch with President Trump. “During the visit, Palin, Nugent, and Rock mockingly posed under Hillary Clinton’s White House portrait.” (Cooney, Samantha 2017) Sarah took a picture of a portrait of Hillary on social media. The picture is about how Hillary did not become president. This correspondingly to the thesis because Sarah mocked Hillary for losing against President Trump. Also in the romantic-comedy movie, Mean Girls, it has many female archetypes that are humiliate other women for the hierarchy of the high school world. In the movie. Mean Girls, there are two archetypes: temptress and warrior. The temptress is portrayed as Regina George. She seduces Aaron Samuels at the Halloween party. Than Cady got mad because Regina said that she did not like Aaron anymore. The temptress crushed warrior’s heart by seducing the archetype’s love

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