The Critique Of Cinderella Not So Morally Superior

The Critique Of Cinderella Not So Morally Superior

Elisabeth Panttaja claims in her article that Cinderella succeeded because of her devious powerful magic that defeat the forces against her and not because she was more tolerant or moral that her stepsisters and her stepmother. Panttaja contends that Cinderella united with her mother to enchant the prince to marry her and to gain power and status after marrying to him (Panttaja 289). Panttaja establish the fact that Cinderella is no so morally condescending. She assist her argument by reasoning to the reader how Cinderella was not really motherless and that Cinderella’s mother had a lot in common with the stepmother and by also showing that the prince was enchanted by Cinderella’s magical dress.With all of this evidence Panttaja proclaimed that Cinderella is not so morally superior. Panttaja challenge the fact of whether Cinderella is motherless or not. At the beginning Cinderella found herself in need of her mother’s advice and by keeping her mother’s last words which were “Dear Child, be good and pious. Then the dear Lord shall always assist you, and I shall look down from heaven and take care of you” (Panttaja 286) Cinderella managed to overcome her social segregation and at the end she rises to a position of power and

Panttaja declared that at the beginning of the fairy tale the tree helped the newly motherless girl to grieve by giving her consolation and give her a dress to the ball later. Not only that but the tree also influenced the animals that lived in it to help Cinderella too, for example; the two pigeons who exposed the false brides to the prince as they were riding away with their bleeding feet and the birds that helped Cinderella category the lentils that the stepmother threw on the floor (Panttaja 287). After stating these evidence Panttaja believed that Cinderella’s mother was still influencing Cinderella’s