just a quick question,just read cinderella to my daughter,and was just wondering why the glass slipper she left behind didnt turn into something else,when everything else went back to normal at the stroke of midnight,its taken me 24 years to think of it,only explanation i can think of is that because she wasnt wearin it,it stayed as a glass slipper,enabling the prince to hunt the owner down! thanks
2007-11-04 07:26:51 · 8 answers · asked by sharpay 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
The story wouldn't work if the glass slipper had turned, say, into a leaf from a plant. There would be nothing to try on the feet of the potential brides.
2007-11-04 07:33:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the present story, which was written in France by Charles Perrault the slipper was indeed made of glass. However Perrault took the idea from an earlier Chinese story in which the slipper was gold. In the original Cinderella actually makes three visits to the palace and loses not a glass slipper, but a ring that will fit no-one but her thus enabling the Prince to track her down. Also he changed the character of the Fairy Godmother from the original which was the ghost of her dead mother who would visit her re-incarnated as a cow. Perrault felt that the ring was inappropriate and changed the lost object to a glass slipper, also limiting Cinderella's visit to once only. This was partly to avoid accusations of plagiarism and enabled him to claim the story as his own.
The idea that the original slippers were made of fur is a popular urban myth. In Perrault's story he definitely uses the phrase 'pantoufle de verre' meaning 'slipper of glass and NOT 'pantoufle de vair' which would mean slipper of fur. The French word 'vair' was an obsolete term at the time and not a word he would have used (around 1657). The newer word for fur was 'fourure' and although it is easy to misread vair for verre it is not so easy to misread 'fourure' for 'verre'.
2007-11-04 07:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by quatt47 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Firstly it wasn't glass, that's another misconception the word used in the original story was the French word for 'fur' but in English someone mistook it for glace (glass/ice) and the slipper was enchanted, remember it 'wouldn't ' allow itself to fit another foot .. and if you've only thought of this after 24 years, you're too darn young to be in this section
2007-11-04 07:34:36 · answer #3 · answered by The old man 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
She grew to become into working down the stairs at that 2nd and thanks to physics concept of inertia (tendency of merchandise to stand up to this is action, the foot got here out of the shoe. it would have went back in, different than by using fact of severe speed and the fairy godmother's interference of magic, the shoe grew to become into left at the back of, destined to be the only way the Prince might have stumbled on Cinderella!
2016-10-01 22:26:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe its because the slipper wasnt connected to her body anymore. Or, the magic stayed because it was fate. And that's how magic works.
2007-11-04 11:20:19 · answer #5 · answered by shawnthepsychic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think the author thought about that, though i did when i was 5! but it must have been so the prince could find her- how else could he>?
2007-11-04 07:31:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It didn't turn because IT'S NOT REAL.
The original author can make it do anything he wanted.
2007-11-04 07:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by DianA 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
quite honestly, it's because if it had there would have been no story!
2007-11-04 07:30:50 · answer #8 · answered by ... 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋