Feminist Criticism “ A criticism advocating equal rights for women in a political,economic, psychological ,personal, and aesthetic sense
Feminist criticism may also look at
intersectionally, looking on how factors including race,sexuality,physical ability,and class are also involved. Feminist Criticism on Cinderella Cinderella , just like the other fairy tales, features a damsel in distress longing for someone to love her. Just like other fairy tales, it ends in happily ever after scene with the protaginist, Cinderella, ending up as a lucky maiden who married prince and will one day become a queen. In her journey, there of course was the antagonist, the step mother, who gave us the genetic notion that stepmother can be equated to witches. In a feminist perspective, the story of Cinderella gave the impression that women are always in need. And because of this need,there are negative traits that rises.Just like the stepmother in the story, her need for security and wealth made her evil.It is somewhat degrading to women because it gives the impression that women are weak. Through in the course of the story, Cinderella was still able to redeem herself by being brave enough to face her step mother and taking the risk of getting caught during the ball. It also emphasizes that men rules above women as they can easily choose who to marry and that decisions of a nation or a household depends upon them. In the course of the story, a glimpse of how unstable a household can be if a woman is the head of a household was portrade through the character of the step mother. The wealth and stability of the household became shaky when cinderella's father died. There was an impression given that there really is a need for a women to be married for her status in the society to be preserved or to be dignified in a society. Since the story was written in an era where women has not yet been fully recognized in the society, it is a proof that girl has been a biased in gender during that age which has slowly change as compared to this age. On the other hand, the story has not given match emphasis and role to men except of course to the prince and the father of cinderella. Though there are only two major roles given to men in the story, still it greatly affected the story. The characters of these men has affected the course and decisions of the other characters in the story. Infact, because of them, the lives of the other characters has changed. The scene in the story where Cinderella got lost track of the embodies how women can be emotionally weak and lose control of their actions.Because she got so engrossed with the prince and the wondrousness of the moment, Cinderella became disorganized ,she even left her shoe as she ran away. This incident has created an impression are indeed weak when emotional matters comes in. There was also an emphasis on the social status of women: the step mother being the head of the house hold and Cinderella being an orphan. In conclusion, the story of Cinderella balance the different characters of women. There was also an oppression between women and women as seen in the characters of the step mother and Cinderella. An oppression of the man to women has not greatly ephasized, however, it was still felt as there was a given connotation that women are followers of men. It was also emphasized that men in the society place a major role in the lives of women. This was seen in the characters of the prince and the father of Cinderella.On the other hand,it is also worth mentioning that there are women in the society that may sometimes seems unseen and mediocre but greatly impacts that lives of others. Just like the step sisters of Cinderella, with out them,the step mother could have loved Cinderella as her own or may not even marry Cinderella's father at all. However, it is undeniable that the story of Cinderella inspires women to be brave yet humble and be strong despite rough times. Feminism
Feminism is the ideology that believes
in the equal rights and opportunities for women in education, employment and in the cultural and social life. There are differences between the ideas of feminists around the world so that no one description can fit all varieties of feminist views. Theory of Feminist criticism
Feminist theory focuses on analyzing
gender inequality. It examines women`s and mens`s social roles, experiences interests, chores and feminist polotics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology sociology, communication, media studies, psychoanalysis, home economics, literature, education, and philosophy. Cinderella, far from being an innocent fairy tale about a girl achieving her dreams is actually a misogynist story that presents women as greedy and cruel or pretty and passive, and suggests that the best way for a woman to get ahead in the world is to let herself be abused and wait for help from someone else. Example: Applying Feminist Criticism to Cinderella Girl is waiting to be “rescued” from her horriblelife by handsome prince shows women are the weaker sex and depend on men for everything ( man is dominant and women is subordinate) “Good girl” is beautiful and “wicked girls” are ugly shows that a woman's work is only in her beauty, lack of beauty. SUMMARY OF CINDERELLA
Once upon a time, there was a girl
named Cinderella. She is unhappy after her mother's death. After how many years , her father remarried again and now she have a step mother and two step sisters. when her father died, they treat her differently. They treat her terribly and make and make her work and never give her anything. One day, the king decided to have a big party and called everyone from the town. The king wanted his son to choose one of the pretty girls to marry. The king sent an invite to all the young maiden for a grand ball at his palace. Her step sisters went to the ball and she was left behind. While Cinderella dreams about wonderful things and eventually a fairly-god mother comes and change Cinderella into beautiful lady. . She turned the pumpkin into beautiful carriage. The mice became horses to drag the carriage and the bird became her coachman. She remind her that she will go home before midnight. Cinderella go to the ball with her beautiful dress. She met the prince and they fall in love but Cinderella has to leave she tells him who she really is. Cinderella loses her shoe as she runs away and the prince picks up the shoe. He researches for her and eventually marries her much to the surprise of the step-mother and sisters. MEMBERS:
Almaira Magangcong Diether Ytang Mealyn Cabobongan Jean Doromas Rinalyn Sanday Jeffty Guiban Ibrahim Tin