Stepmothers

The Evil Stepmothers
Jane Austen once said: “Well, Evil to some is always good to others”. Fairy tales are a kind of folktale or fable in which tend to be appropriate for children, and follow a setof fantastic, unrealistic and magical events and characters. Popular fairy tales include a certain character that the reader simply does not like. They are evil incarnate; generally seeking personalgain without justifying the means. In many of these fairy tales this antagonist is known as “the evil stepmother” in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Cinderella” and “Little Snow White”, the evilstepmother’s possess distinctive motives for their actions. These villains will be thoroughly discussed in different perspectives to obtain a better idea of who they truly were.
In “Cinderella”, the evilstepmother is immensely superficial and incapable of feeling love or sympathy for others, including her own family. She does not even care for her own daughters. This is demonstrated in the scene where theprince arrives to her house in search of the woman whose foot fit the shoe. The stepmother is willing to hurt her daughters to acquire power, riches and fame. As she (the stepmother) takes part in thestory; she says to her first daughter “Cut off your toe. When you are queen you will no longer have to go on foot”. Her other daughter received the same attention the stepmother said: “Cut a pieceoff your heel. When you are queen you will no longer have to go on foot”. As stated in the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s version. For her (the stepmother) as Niccolo Machiavelli explains in “The Prince”,the end justifies the means. She does not care what happens to her daughter or anyone else; as long as in the end she will be submerged in riches (her only desire for her daughters to marry the princewas so that she could obtain fame and gold).
In terms of the stepmother in “Little Snow White”, her stimuli relieves in eternal beauty, an unimaginable and incomparable beauty. She deeply...