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After reading today's assignment, please take a few minutes to think about what you have read and compile your important quotes, questions, and observations in the following format:

Identify and copy THREE quotes from this reading that you found interesting or provocative.
Write TWO questions that came to mind as you read this text (make sure the questions are related to the text for today).
Try to answer ONE of your questions in a 150-word (1-2 paragraph) response. For this response, there is no right or wrong answer: instead, the goal of this assignment is to start thinking critically about your text--to go beyond the words on the page to the connections you can make between texts, between the text and yourself, or the text and the world.

WILFRED OWEN The Sleeping Beauty INTRODUCTION: Cinderella Sojourning through a southern realm in youth, Where bode a marvellous Beauty. There, romance Flew faerily until I For lo! the fair Child slumbered. Though, forsooth, She lay not blanketed in drowsy trance, But leapt alert of limb and keen of glance, From sun to shower; from gaiety to ruth; Yet breathed her loveliness asleep in her For, when I kissed, her eyelids knew no stir. So back I drew tiptoe from that Princess, Because it was too soon, and not my part, To start voluptuous pulses in her heart, And kiss her to the world of Consciousness. Who does not love a Cinderella story? Or for that matter a Cinder- ella team or a Cinderella ending? Our quintessential story about a rise from rags to riches has also become a cultural meme for cap- turing dramatic turnarounds, hard-won victories that are earned by a deserving underdog. The tropes that accompany versions of the story-missing shoes or cruel stepsisters-have migrated into many ifferent narratives, flashing out at us as reminders of a fairy-tale drama that mingles persecution at home and class differences with romance that takes the form of love at first sight. The version of "Cinderella" best known in Anglo-American and European cultures comes from Charles Perrault, who published his Cendrillon" in 1697. Disney's 1950 feature-length animated Cin derella opens to the image of a book with a voice-over that gives u:s the beginning of Perrault's tale about a beleaguered heroine, an evil stepmother and her daughters, a fairy godmother, a pumpkin, glass slippers, and a midnight spell. Since Disney, the story's staying power has derived from its depiction of maternal cruelty and sibling rivalry as well as its staging of the power of radiant beauty. Both Cinder ella and the Prince are transformed, with one rising phoenix-like from the ashes and the other determined to find his soul mate via a The double transformation that fuels the narrative energy of "Cin derella" leads to a happily ever after in virtually every version of her story. But the heroine's stepsisters rarely fare well. Who can forget the final scene of the Grimms' "Cinderella," which graphically describes the fate of those ill-tempered, disagreeable pretenders to the throne? When the couple went to church, the elder sister was on the right, the younger on the left side: the doves pecked one eye fronm each one. Later, when they left the church, the elder sister was on the left, the younger on the right. The doves pecked the other from each one. (p. 153) For their "wickedness and malice" (p. 153) the sisters are punished with blindness for the rest of their lives. This ending, along with the

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1.Why do different regions of the world, have different endings to the Cinderella story?

The world has been divided into various regions in the form of continents and countries. Each country has a specific and unique culture associated to it. Geert Hofstede considered culture as a mind software, which focuses on distinguishing members of one sect from another. Based on Hofstede’s Cultural dimensions, a country’s culture is characterized by power-distance, individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance and long-term orientation. The folklores of a country usually have an inclination towards the cultural of the country and that explains the various versions or various interpretations of the Cinderella story.

A country having a low uncertainty avoidance and long term orientation, usually tend to leave the ending of the story open-ended. Whereas a country with high uncertainty avoidance would try to make certain all angles of the story, thereby leaving nothing for probability or guess-work. Hence the folklores and children stories are very good examples of depicting the culture of any country.

2. Why the stepmothers have been stereotyped as wicked and evil while the stereotypical over protective or wicked father has vanished from the folklores?

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1. The tropes that accompany versions of the story- missing shoes or cruel stepsisters-have migrated into many different narratives, flashing out at us as reminders of a fairy tale drama that mingles persecution at home and class differences with romance that takes the form of love at first sight.

2.Domestic violence does not belong exclusively to the “long ago and far away”.

3. Since Disney, the story’s staying power has derived from its depiction of maternal cruelty and sibling rivalry as well as its staging of the power of radiant beauty.

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