Cinderella a Grimm Journey free essay sample

The Hero’s Journey is inevitable. In order to find yourself you must go through this journey and succeed or you’ll descend into yourself until you dwindle. For example, Lindsey Lohan after Mean Girls, this movie is such a big hit for her everyone considers her this big up and coming actress and then she just flops. She gets addicted to drugs and can’t land a role to save her life. Her journey possibly ended during the diminishment stage which could’ve pushed her into alcohol and drugs to bring her back to her high. In order to be successful in the hero’s journey you have to go through the stages in stride and take the punches as you go. Cinderella is a great example of this. Before marrying the prince and living a luxurious life, she slept in front of the fire place and earned her name for being dusty and full of ashes. Her ordinary world was working for her own family and being ignored by her own father. For example, he didn’t stand up for her when her step sisters took her clothes away and told her she couldn’t sit with them at the kitchen table. Cinderella’s father one day goes to the fair and asks his step daughters and daughter what they want from the fair. Of course the stepdaughters tell them they want extravagant dresses but what Cinderella asks for is quite odd. She asks for the first branch the rubs against his hat. This symbolizes her love for both her parents because she didn’t want her father to waste his money on expensive things and after he get the branch she buries it on her mom’s grave and cries on it so much that the tears water it and it grows to become a tree. She goes to this tree and cries 3 times a day and always a white bird flies in the tree and watches her and if she wishes for anything the bird will throw it down to her. So instead of having a fairy godmother like in the Disney version Cinderella has the help of the white bird. The tree and the white bird signify love and protection from her mom. After hearing about the festival and begging her stepmother to go her step mom drops all the lentils in the ashes and tell Cinderella to pick out all the good ones from the bad and if she finishes by the time they have to leave then she can go. Cinderella gets all the birds to help her clean. While she was picking out the good and the bad lentils she started to tell the difference between good and bad people. By the time she’s done she has no time to get ready and her family leaves her but not before they insult her and bring her to tears. After not being able to go to the festival Cinderella cries to the tree for a beautiful silver and gold gown and gold shoes and the bird drops it down on her. According to a passage, â€Å"When Cinderella is clothed in â€Å"cloth of gold and silver† wearing â€Å"slippers of solid gold†Ã‚  she is revealed as the princess the reader wants her to be. Her physical beauty seems to bring out her graciousness even more than when she was just Ash Girl or Cinderwench. The color gold â€Å"suggests spiritual, good-hearted faithfulness a being in a more perfect state [exists] in greater perfection.   Cinderella can finally have faith in herself because gold reveals her inner beauty and her true nature of kindness. † (Wolfwikis) The hero’s journey starts right when she leaves to the three day festival in her beautiful gown. She catches the prince’s eye and sits with him and leaves before midnight. On the next night her stepmom drops the lentils in the ashes again and Cinderella gets even more of an understanding between good and evil and because of that the bird rewards her with an even more beautiful dress than the night before. On the third night Cinderella is running late and leaves her shoe behind and the prince finds it and starts looking for the girl who left the slipper. The prince gets to Cinderella’s house and the oldest stepsister tries it on and it turns out that her toes are too long so her mother tells her to cut her toes off she won’t need them when she’s queen. The prince rides away with her but the birds sing a song which tells him to look at her feet and see the blood gushing out her shoes. She isn’t the one he’s looking for. He goes back and the younger stepsister tries it on but her heel doesn’t fit so her mother says cut it off you won’t need it when your queen and the prince ride off with her but again the birds tell him to look at her feet and see the blood gushing out her shoes and he brings her back. Cinderella tries on the shoe and it fit and lies happily after sending the birds to peck out the eyes of the cruel stepsisters. Cinderella had blamed her step family for her misfortunes even though it was her fault for never standing up for herself in her own house. She diminished when she let herself be hurt by them. Her katabasis was crying to her mom’s grave and lightly giving up. And then she went and found her prince and tried to live an extravagant life those three days. Her return is slipping her feet in the shoes and marrying the prince. The hero’s journey is inevitable because you need it to transition from young adulthood to adulthood. I relate with Cinderella because she never gave up when she wanted something. She wanted to go to the festival and meet the prince and he did. She knew how to get to the festival even without the help of her family. She had nature and the birds and her mom and that’s all she needed. She sacrificed her well being to go to the festival like I sacrificed me going away to college so I can help support my mother so my sister can have a better college experience for themselves because they deserve it too.