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What perspective from the story would you say is no longer acceptable at the present time? Why?

• How and why did this view change?
• Have there been attempts to update the theme of the story, for example in its film adaptation?
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

CINDERELLA here once lived a young wommon named Cinderella, whose natural birthmother had died when Cinderella was but a child. A few years after, her father married a widow with two older daughters. Cinderella's mother-of-step treated her very cruelly, and her sisters- of-step made her work very hard, as if she were their own personal unpaid laborer. 7 One day an invitation arrived at their house. The prince was celebrating his exploitation of the dispos- sessed and marginalized peasantry by throwing a fancy dress ball. Cinderella's sisters-of-step were very excited to be invited to the palace. They began o plan the expensive clothes they would use to alter 31