A question about Cinderella.
By agrim94
@agrim94 (3805)
India
January 10, 2009 8:50am CST
We all know since the father of Cinderella married second time, her step mother kept her in worst condition. Then the royal ball came with the promise of prince charming finding a wife on that night. So her grandmother uses her magic wand and converts her in to a very charming girl with lots of things she didn't have like coach, dress and shoes. But the condition was that after midnight everything would change back to original like coach would turn in to pumpkin again and dress would be rags. and when it is midnight when she was dancing with prince she runs away suddenly with one shoe remained with prince.
Now my question is
the shoe left with prince with the help of which he recognized and found Cinderella.. the question is why does that shoe not change to glass when everything else changed to their original shape and quality?
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7 responses
@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
12 Jan 09
That is why it is a fairy tale in the first place and used mainly to teach the young 'uns language use and to keep them amused. Most important thing in a fairy tale is that hope for the better must be kept alive. The lesson is that to keep hope alive one needn't look for logic. Hope is an illogical thing. But the thing that keeps everyone alive in the first place. You want children to learn about difficulties so that they learn to feel sad and feel compassion for the sufferer at the same time you don't want them to ever lose optimism in their lives. By the time they learn to question the sometimes queer logic of fairy tales they are very much grown up into healthy adults.
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@GADHISUNU (2162)
• India
13 Jan 09
Agrim even though you claim not to have followed my line of argument citing dissiculty in "understanding", man, you have got what I wanted to say. My explanation has three points basically. That fairy tales are supposed to be flights of fancy Their pupose is to instill a positive feeling of possiblity of naything imagined in the mind of a child. The fairy tales still contain a reasonable amount of "suffering" and meeting with dangers and other challenges so that the child is trained to expect them in life. last but not the least is alwasy there is a triumph of hope. Now in the process reality is always compromised. I was trying to supply you with a reason why only the glass shoes were "real" whereas all the other items were illusory a product of magic! Just imagine if at least one item of her personage is not left to be real how will you see hope in that story?
@agrim94 (3805)
• India
12 Jan 09
Sir ur answer is too much intelligent for me. I am sorry but i can not fully understand what you want to convey. I might look fool saying ur answer is above my intelligence but it is. As far as i understood you want to say in fairy tales these things happen and children then always get hope and think hey some god fairy would come and change everything for us. All i wanted to ask was wouldn't it be better if the god fairy had given her shoes which were real so wont change..
@ammie07 (322)
• India
17 Jan 09
i guess because Cinderella had left her shoe behind but rest were with her so they changed and the shoe wasn't with her so it never changed......or maybe the fairy had wanted this to happen so she didn't change the shoes.....so that the prince would find her and they would live happily ever after
@KrauseHome (36447)
• United States
10 Jan 09
This is an interesting thought and question. But you need to remember that this was a Fairy Tale as well, and if it would have changed back as well, there would be no Happy ending. But personally I think there was a Story trying to be portrayed here. It shows that even when you feel like you are Ragged and worth nothing, there are people out there who will disagree, and will find the Good qualities and treat you as if you are a Princess as well. Sometimes that is why it might take more of us a lot longer to feel wanted than others as we have had to work for things more in life as well, unlike those who have had things handed to them on a Silver Platter as well.
@agrim94 (3805)
• India
10 Jan 09
Thx for the response KrauseHome .. i fully agree with your points and I am not raising the morals or the teachings of the story. But about such a big mistake which till now no one ever said anything about. I when i first heard the story in class 2nd i guessed from my teacher i asked her this question as soon as i heard the story and all she told me was to not to ask useless questions... but this question still bothers me that writer of such a beautiful story can make such a big mistake. wouldn't it be better if grandmother had given her beautiful shoes so they don't have to be magical and no need to change them back to glass...
@meeandnotyou (2548)
• United States
10 Jan 09
I think it is part of the POINT in the story. Everthing happens for a reason and no matter how bad your life is you can have a Happily ever after.
With the belief in magic you know that the strongest magic this world has is Love. So by the value of the Love and for the sake of love the glass slipper does not change as it is pivotal to love. If it would have turned back into a ragged shoe or whatever it was, it would have been discarded as rubbish and love would have been lost.
For another possible conclusion... The Fairy God Mother (representing God) in her infinate wisdom set the Midnight curfew as she knew how things would play out and knowing how things would work out and knowing that you can only be raised when you hit rock bottom.... She already knew that C and P would be hitting it off just before she had to leave and the shoe is part of the plan to raise C back up after hitting rock bottom by having to leave. Thus the FGM allowed the shoe to remain to fulfill her plan although all seemed lost and hopeless....
And for yet another conclusion.... Maybe it is like that because that is the purpose of a fairy tale..... A HAPPY ENDING!!
I hope that I have helped!
HAVE A GREAT DAY!!
@agrim94 (3805)
• India
12 Jan 09
May be what ever you say might be in the mind of writer and just think of it only shoe which prince had didn't change to original. what about the shoe which went with her..did it also not change or that changed. another thing i cudnt digest was that her foot size was unique in whole town she had that size of shoe i guess.
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@ratcliffe07 (128)
• United States
22 Jan 09
Well none of it is real anyways but if you also remember the other glass slipper remained too...
It can only be assumed the fairy godmother meant it this way. why else would both slippers remain. She could have seen the future and knew the prince would fall for her.
But the other glass slipper she broke when she was going down the stairs to meet the prince. so both shoes had remained glass.
@arvintot (401)
• Philippines
11 Jan 09
wow.. youve noticed that...what an interesting one.
hmmm... I really dont think that shoe has an original shape or quality... I think as I remembered or as I think... that shoe doesnt really have a orginal shape... her grandma just used her magic then walla!!! the glass shoes...
@agirlfromtomorrow (290)
• Egypt
19 Jan 09
actually when i was a child and my mom told me that story I asked her that same question and she told me that the shoes didn't turn back because pairs of the shoes were separated and they needed to be together. and I also asked her how come no one else had Cinderella's shoes size. she told me that because it was a magical shoes it fit perfectly to Cinderella and no one else.
LOL
