Cinderella: the Hidden Message – (from a Humorous Perspective)

As a note to readers, I wrote the following because I was bored and wanted to practise my writing abilities, I hope you will like it.

The tale of Cinderella is a heart warming classic. It teaches a very valuable lesson to kids: if you believe and follow your dreams, they will come true – a great and timeless moral that will fill children of all ages with hope. However, there is a deep and disturbing underlying message that parents tend to leave out during their nightly ritual of bed time stories. Although Cinderella follows through with her dreams, it is never supposed to have occurred as she does nothing to try and achieve her goals. It is by pure fortuitous chance that she just happens to have a fairy god-mother waiting for her hand-on-foot, ready to pull her out of any devastating situations. When Cinderella’s step-sisters and step-mother goes out to the ball, probably leaving a sink full of dirty dishes behind, Cinderella just plants her derriere on a stool and unleashes the waterworks by the bucketfuls (after she makes sure the plates are sparkling clean, I assume).

Instead of doing anything, like going out of the house or borrowing one of her wicked sisters’ dress (she can leave the house, she’s an adult for Pete’s sake!), she decides to give up and hope, by magic, someone will whisk her out of her desolation and fly her down in front of the prince and have him swoon over her. So in a way, as she forfeits her dream and is about to live as an abused miserable housemaid for the rest of her life, her magical aide comes to clean up her mess of an existence and completely, and I mean completely, turns it around. If only this world had a bit more magic, then all the little girls will be marrying princes, all the little boys will be superheroes, and all the free-market advocates will never have to face retribution. Or is the story telling us that magic is provided to only those who are worthy? Then I wonder to myself, “who makes this judgement?” and “why does that person have so much power?” Nobody should be awarded with this much control over others!

I also question just how happy her life with the prince will truly be. A spoiled royalty who halted the entire nation’s productivity to find a girl he will be sick of after a week, marries a raggedy Anne who knows absolutely nothing about the outside world with the only credentials “kind and do windows.” When it is finally the prince’s turn to rule, I give this kingdom one year before its armies are decimated, its economy left in total ruins, and its head of state becomes nothing more than a “head-on-stake.”

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