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    Feminist Literary Criticism On 21st Century Cinderella

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    This document analyzes a scene from a 21st century adaptation of Cinderella through the lens of feminist literary criticism. In the scene, Cinderella tries to sell her handmade dresses in the city but is mocked and accused of theft simply for being a woman. However, Cinderella argues that women are capable of running households and businesses. The scene represents the patriarchal society that oppress women economically and forbid them from owning their own stores or businesses. It also shows how important it is for women to have a voice, stand up for themselves, and treat each other with equality in order to overcome disparaging views of women's leadership abilities.

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    This document analyzes a scene from a 21st century adaptation of Cinderella through the lens of feminist literary criticism. In the scene, Cinderella tries to sell her handmade dresses in the city but is mocked and accused of theft simply for being a woman. However, Cinderella argues that women are capable of running households and businesses. The scene represents the patriarchal society that oppress women economically and forbid them from owning their own stores or businesses. It also shows how important it is for women to have a voice, stand up for themselves, and treat each other with equality in order to overcome disparaging views of women's leadership abilities.

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    This document analyzes a scene from a 21st century adaptation of Cinderella through the lens of feminist literary criticism. In the scene, Cinderella tries to sell her handmade dresses in the city but is mocked and accused of theft simply for being a woman. However, Cinderella argues that women are capable of running households and businesses. The scene represents the patriarchal society that oppress women economically and forbid them from owning their own stores or businesses. It also shows how important it is for women to have a voice, stand up for themselves, and treat each other with equality in order to overcome disparaging views of women's leadership abilities.

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    Feminist Literary Criticism On 21st Century Cinderella

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    Thrishelle Mae Lavarias
    This document analyzes a scene from a 21st century adaptation of Cinderella through the lens of feminist literary criticism. In the scene, Cinderella tries to sell her handmade dresses in the city but is mocked and accused of theft simply for being a woman. However, Cinderella argues that women are capable of running households and businesses. The scene represents the patriarchal society that oppress women economically and forbid them from owning their own stores or businesses. It also shows how important it is for women to have a voice, stand up for themselves, and treat each other with equality in order to overcome disparaging views of women's leadership abilities.

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    Feminist Literary

    Criticism on 21 st

    Century Cinderella
    Introduction

    Every generation approaches the Cinderella story from its own point of view. In this interpretation,
    Cinderella aspires to become a successful dressmaker and wants to establish her own company so she
    can support herself and gain respect from others.
    Our chosen movie scene of Cinderella presents women as victims of economic oppression, which
    makes it worthy of analysis. Our chosen movie scene represents much more, though, if we look at it
    through the analytical feminism criticism lens. The movie scene creates a patriarchal society in which
    women are forbidden from owning businesses or owning stores.
    In addition, this scene showed us how important it is in this day and age to pay attention to work-
    life balance. It also taught women to have a voice to speak for themselves or to treat other women
    equally so that society would hear them and stop disparaging women's leadership abilities and
    capabilities.
    Point 1

    When Ella goes to the city to sell her stitched gowns designed by herself. Ella
    became a laughing stock and has been accused as a thief because they don't
    believe that she made the quality gown by herself. However, Ella reasoned out
    that even if she is a commoner and a girl it has no relation to her capabilities in
    doing things. She said non-verbatim, "Ladies can run households, so surely we
    can also run businesses" being a girl is not an excuse to stop them from
    supporting their family. Ella wants to let them know that girls have the abilities
    and capabilities to live without being dependent on men.
    Point 2

    The Cinderella in 21st century shows a representation of a feminism criticism


    in the scene where Ella was trying to sell her handmade dress to many people,
    but they neglected her piece just because she is just a girl who dreams and try to
    have her own shop to sell her dress. But then Ella just want to pursue here dreams
    to become a business woman, even though it shows in the scene that women are
    not capable of doing things, just because they are woman, it doesn’t mean that
    they can’t do what others men can do that is why feminist criticism is present and
    shown in the scene, it’s because of the way the people shows how woman doesn’t
    have rights in a society, which is not true.
    Point 3

    Cinderella is more than a fairy tale about a young girl’s dreams coming true. It is a
    story about patriarchal power and control. This storyline also plays into the beliefs
    behind the patriarchy held by prohibition-era women when it comes to their dreams
    and rights. By taking a closer look at the scene, you can see that it is not just all about a
    woman who has a dream to come true, but it also shows the underlying ideologies and
    oppression of women. Women have rights in different aspects. Just like Ella, who is an
    aspiring dressmaker who wants to start a business, like Herschel said, Ella wants to let
    them know that women have the same abilities and capabilities as men, and she also
    wants to prove that women can live without being dependent on men.
    Conclusion

    In conclusion, Ella’s capabilities were being questioned just because she is a woman. The
    people did not believe she could actually make a dress herself and run a business by herself.
    Patriarchy was present in the story and the scene itself, as the people believed only men can do
    the things Ella does. They put a limit on the capabilities of women by telling them that only
    men can run businesses, which was Ella’s dream. When in reality, women are capable of
    sustaining themselves independently of men. In the patriarchal society portrayed in the movie
    scenario, women are not allowed to own stores or enterprises. It also taught women to speak up
    for themselves or treat other women with respect in order to be heard by society and stop
    undermining their capacities.
    Thank you for listening!

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