Does Cinderella have any common sense? In my opinion, no, she doesn’t. Before anybody starts arguing with me, just hear me out.
1. She fell in love with a guy she just met. I know that this happens in practically every single fairy tale, but she did! I know that fairy tales always have this concept of ‘love at first sight’, but what if Prince Charming was like Hans and didn’t really love her? I know he couldn’t have been, considering that he was the royal in this case, but Cinderella didn’t have a valid reason to marry the guy! In the story, it seems as if she’s marrying him for the position of being Queen or for the wealth. She didn’t even know if he was just acting like a nice guy at the ball, she hadn’t spent enough time with him separately to know if he picked his nose or not! (Frozen reference there, if anybody noticed)
2. When she left the ball, she could have ran away from the evil stepmother and step-sisters. She didn’t have to stay, she could’ve ran off into the sunset and made an actual living, instead of being a slave.
The next highlights aren’t exactly criticizing her common sense, but I thought that they were important.
3. She was a horrible maid. The whole point in cleaning a house, is to make sure it’s clean and not full of mice. What did Cinderella do? She freed every single mouse that was caught in a trap and made them clothes!
4. She wore a dress that was made by mice and birds. Let me go over the fact that mice are extremely dirty and birds are constantly pooping! Not the cleanest dress in my opinion.
5. She didn’t do anything! She didn’t even learn a lesson! Everything was handed to her on a silver plate, and the was just lucky that she was the only person who had tiny feet. She was dependent on everyone else in the story, and she didn’t do a single thing for herself.
The last one isn’t exactly a comment on Cinderella, it’s more on her shoes.
6. It is not possible for Cinderella to be the only person in an entire kingdom to have that shoe size. Also, who in their right mind would wear shoes made out of GLASS? I don’t understand how she could walk, let alone dance in those shoes, because one wrong move and her entire foot would break.
Do you agree, or do you disagree with me? Also, has anybody noticed that Cinderella, Snow White, and Sleeping Beauty are all incredibly alike?
Dear Blogger,
the point should be: why Cinderella did not claim her part of heredity and instead stayed “cleaning” the house?
The first possibility is that she was a minor and the stepmother was her guardian.
You could search more on the subject but the sad truth is that even now many women, even in well developed countries, leave like servants without knowing their rights, or without the hope that their rights would be recognized.
Another possibility is that the stepmother was not so bad, but
there is the early Disney propaganda that in each story there is good and evil and that good girls obey and clean without arguing.
We’ll never know the truth….
Cassandra
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I think it is common sense to find somebody rich and marry.
I mean, it is absolutely reasonable to marry somebody not for love but for money. It is daily business.