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Louise Bernikow's Cinderell A Day At The Movies

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According to Louise Bernikow’s “Cinderella: A Day at the Movies,” the ultimate goal for women is to marry someone that can boost your social and economic status. The ultimate goal is to marry the prince for advancement in social status and financial stability. The goal is to marry that person so then you can get out of poverty and get out of hard labor. To achieve their ultimate goal, women were expected to be pretty in any way possible. It goes as far as mutilating themselves’ to become pretty or beautiful. The whole point of becoming pretty is to win the prince’s attention. All the women have to compete with their prettiness to get the prince for their ultimate goal. It was hard for women to move up socially or economically because women had …show more content…

There were several people that wanted to marry Belle because of how wonderful she was. One of those people was a hunter named Gaston. Gaston was a mighty hunter that everybody in the town respected. He was seen as arrogant but everybody in the town still thought very highly of him. Many women wanted Gaston to marry them because he was the ultimate goal for most women in that town. Despite Gaston being very charming to every other woman, Belle rejected Gaston when Gaston wanted to marry Belle. Belle did not go for the guy that everybody sought after unlike the Cinderella story where everybody wanted to be the Princes’. Later on after getting kidnapped by the Beast, Belle saw how amazing the Beast’s personality was and how hard he tried to be good. After realizing how great and kind the Beast was, Belle wanted to be with the beast. Therefore, in the Beauty and the Beast the girl does not always go for the rich person who can help them escape from poverty, they go for the person who seems like an amazing individual. Belle chose the Beast over Gaston despite Gaston was seen as the most charming person in Belle’s

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