Part one of term paper
The number of variants of the classic folk tale \\"Cinderella\\" is unknown but over 700 have been recorded, the earliest dating back to the ninth century. In China, during the ninth century, Tuan Ch\\'êng-Shih recorded a story about a girl, her family, and a magical fish. Eight centuries later a French lawyer by the name of Charles Perrau ...

Part two of term paper
... a princess they are also largely about the manifestation of one of her parent\\'s love, even after death. In Perrault\\'s version the father is characterized as a nobleman though his role in Cinderella\\'s life is very limited. Her mother had died and the father had remarried. Perrault reinforces her father\\'s neglect by saying that if Cinderella would have complained to her him \\"[h]e would have scolded her, for he was entirely under his wife\\'s thumb\\" (Perrault 600). The African Cindere ...