Chinese cinderella author biography johnny
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First Reader
Dr. Amy Sonheim
Second Reader
Dr. Johnny Wink
Third Reader
Professor Sarah Smith
Abstract
If anyone had seen me binge-watching ABC's Once Upon a Time (a television adaptation of Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, and more) during my freshman year of college, they undoubtedly would have said I was wasting my time. In fact, I probably would have agreed with them--there were far better things for a busy English and mass communications double major to do in her free time. I didn't realize then that I was actually in the process of developing what would become my research passion for the next four years.
For my final research essay in Composition 1, my professor, Dr. Johnny Wink, had us choose a topic from a long list he created. I chose "The Disneyization of Fairy Tales." I had grown up loving Disney, and thought I might as well tie my essay into one of my favorite television shows. My essay focused on Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Princess and the Frog, and Frozen, comparing the Disney movies to the original stories. I thoroughly enjoyed writing about fairy tales and got my paper back with a near-perfect score. When it came time to choose my honors directed study--in essence, a semester-long research project--I thought back to
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Cinderella
European folk tale
This article is about the folk tale. For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation).
"Cinderella",[a] or "The Little Glass Slipper", is a folk tale with thousands of variants that are told throughout the world.[2][3] The protagonist is a young girl living in forsaken circumstances who is suddenly blessed by remarkable fortune, with her ascension to the throne via marriage. The story of Rhodopis, recounted by the Greek geographer Strabo sometime between 7 BC and AD 23, about a Greek slave girl who marries the king of Egypt, is usually considered to be the earliest known variant of the Cinderella story.[2][3][4]
The first literary European version of the story was published in Italy by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone in 1634; the version that is now most widely known in the English-speaking world was published in French by Charles Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697 as Cendrillon and was anglicized as Cinderella.[5] Another version was later published as Aschenputtel by the Brothers Grimm in their folk tale collection Grimms' Fairy Tales in 1812.
Although the story's title and main character's name change in different languages, i
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