Date of Award

2010

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Sutherland, Wendy

Keywords

Beauty, Cinderella, Innate

Area of Concentration

Humanities

Abstract

This thesis analyzes inner Beauty and external beauty in the tale of Cinderella in Charles Perrault�s Cendrillon (Cinderella), the Grimm brothers� Aschenputtel (Cinderella), V�clav Vorl�cek�s Tri or�sky pro Popelku (Three Nuts for Cinderella), and Andy Tennant�s Ever After. This work, based on Plato�s philosophy of Beauty, analyzes and states that regardless of the time period, place or medium in which each adaptation was created, the overall standards of what constitutes Beauty remain the same throughout: for true Beauty to exist in a person there must be, first and foremost, inner Beauty; any physical beauty, whether of the individuals or their clothing, only serves to embellish or mask what is innately there.

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