The Liminal Period in the Cinderella Fairy Tale

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Book review

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4 pages

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.doc

Published date :

04/23/2008

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Table of Contents The Liminal Period in the Cinderella Fairy Tale Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Cinderella's lack of social state
  3. The change in her life
  4. The extreme passivity of Cinderella
  5. The transmission of knowledge from instructor to initiand
  6. Conclusion
  7. Works cited

Abstract

In "The Little Glass Slipper", cinderella is undergoing what anthropologist Victor Turner, in his theory regarding rites de passage, would regard as a transitional period between being a girl under the protection of her mother and a woman under the protection of a husband. During this transitional, or liminal, state, cinderella is prepared for her new role by a series of instructors so that she may become what her culture views as an ideal wife. She is first instructed by her stepfamily, which teaches her through forced labor and maltreatment to become the ideal passive, hard working, domestic housewife. Once this training is complete, cinderella's fairy Godmother further transforms cinderella into the other womanly ideal, that of the pure, beautiful, desirable socialite.

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Level :General public Study : Literature School/University : Harvard College

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