Common Theme in Cinderella and Barbie Doll

In the two songs, Cinderella and Barbie Doll, two authors use different literary devices to prove a common theme. The common theme throughout both meters is that commonwealth provide mutilate themselves to obtain what they perceive as happiness. Also, the poems set up how societies force a standard of living, which classifies how certain genders should act. The poem Cinderella by Anne sexton is describing the skipper fairy taradiddle Cinderella in a distorted view.Anne sexton begins her poem by giving examples of impoverished commonwealth such as a plumber, a nursemaid, a milkman, and a charwoman whom accidentally got lucky in life and morphed into lavishly living citizens. In the first four stanzas, sacristan uses antistrophe to further convey how important that story is to the poem (line 5, 10, and 21). Anne sacristan indeed shifts to recounting the story of Cinderella in stanza 5. She calls a young girl who lives with her father, miserly stepmother, and two pretty, b ut despicable stepsisters, after her kind mother dies.The poet uses similes to describe both the two stepdaughters (Line 29) and Cinderellas slave- inter departable tendencies (Line 32). She then talks about how a plunge comes out of a tree, granting her both wish. The day of the ball, the dove helps her pick up all the lentils her stepmother had thrown on the floor as a art to hinder her from going. And with this challenge completed, the dove as well as gives Cinderella the full royal tog and treatment. For two days, at the ball, Cinderella manages to steal the princes heart, escape her stepmother and sisters recognition, and flee back into the pigeon theater of operations before getting caught.However, the third day, her shoe gets stuck on the sticky wax steps, thus giving the prince an opportunity to search for his princess by making e genuinely girl in the kingdom try the slipper on. In the poem, Cinderellas sisters extirpation off part of their feet, to get the shoe to f it however when Cinderella slips her radical into it, it fits undefiledly. Stanza 10 encourages sympathy with revenge instead of fighting back and the dust coat dove pecked their eyes out. (97).The author uses a simile, like two dolls in a museum case (102), to describe the idea ow women lived like they had a water ice ceiling over their head. This further conveys the theme of the poem being how societies throw a standard of living, which classifies how genders should act. In the last stanza, Cinderella marries the prince and the wedded couple lives blithely ever. Lines 103-106 portrays the authors use of asyndeton to convey how Cinderella and the prince lived with no hardships, which further conveys the theme of the poem that people will mutilate themselves to obtain what they perceive as happiness.Anne Sextons language is dark, informal, and humorous. vileness is achieved when she describes violent scenes of slicing feet, or pecking eyes. Informality shows through the way s he addresses the indorser directly every now and then. And humor is conveyed in the way Sexton elaborates on the revolting scenes and describes those using comic similes, such as the travail spots where the eyes once existed, resembling soup spoons. The ending of the poem reveals what is perpetually left out of fairytales, reality.And Sexton somehow implies that a lack of lifes hardships and little im amendions is non the happy ever after life, but rather a predictable existence. She decl bes in the end that Cinderella and her prince dont deserve the prize of living the dream, their smiles are plastered they are neither genuine nor sincere (107). Cinderella is just like the plumber, the charwoman, or the nursemaid. She got lucky. None of them worked their way to the top. And thats what they deserved, a seemingly happy life, with cipher to be happy about.The attitude throughout the poem is also very critical of the characters in the poem and judge mental of the Grime Brothers original fairytale. The common misconception in the poem is that many people with seemingly perfect lives stool hardships just like everybody else. Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy is a poem written as a fairy-tale of sorts, and suggests that the enormous social pressures on women to conform to particular ways of looking and behaving are ultimately destructive. In lines 2-4, Marge Piercy uses polysyndeton to convey how important a girls accessories are.Then in lines 5-6, the poem experiences a shift, where the speaker chooses to end the stanza in an ironic way. In stanza two, the poets choice of words describes the irony of the girlchild having an abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity (9-10). being good with ones hands (manual dexterity) is a conventional priapic trait and similarly, while having an abundant sexual drive for boys might be seen as a good thing, for girls it is been looked down on thus keep the theme that certain genders should act how clubhouse wants them too.S tanza four describes how much society influenced the girl child and lines 12-14 asyndeton is used to show how much society merchantman ask of women. The poem ends full of irony. The very person that the girlchild could never be is the person appearing in her casket (19-23). It is ironic that the very people who couldnt appreciate the girlchild for who she was in life, now admire the person she is made to be in death. The last line of the poem echoes the happy ending of fairy-tales.Piercy is reflexion that because of womens subservient position in society, it is often difficult for their lives to have happy endings. In Barbie Doll, it is society that achieves consummation. Barbie Doll is a chronicle poem written in free verse and can be read as a parable of what often happens to women in a patriarchal society. The moral of Piercys poem also functions as a warning it urges readers to be aware of the ways in which society shapes our identities and urges women not to compare themselv es to idealized notions of feminine beauty or behavior. Cinderella Story shows the gullibility of women and the unrealistic dream we all have about meeting the perfect man and leading the perfect life. It opens our eyes to the fact that the fairy tale conveyed in the original Cinderella rarely ever happens in real life. federation influences children and women profoundly to the point where they are willing or wanting to change absolutely everything about themselves or die in the poem, Barbie Doll. Society is also willing to tell people how they should act, specifically based on gender, and if individual falls from that certain spectrum, then they are no good for society. Anne Sexton and Marge Piercy communicate the theme of both poems through the utilization of note of hand and literary devices. Cinderella and Barbie Doll share the common theme that people will mutilate themselves to obtain what they perceive as happiness and that society create a standard of living, which classi fies how certain genders should act.