Do you know a child that would not be able to continue the well known opening phrase of various fairy tales ‘Once upon a time...'?
One thing every society, culture and nation has in common is a wealth of fairy stories and folk tales of our ancestors that are part of our collective consciousness and subconscious thoughts. The serious interest in folklore among the British intellects was spurred by the translation of the stories, in 1823, collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Adults were originally as likely as children to be the intended audience of the fairy stories and the folk tales which evidently resulted in providing ‘not only pleasure but form and inspiration'(1) to those successful voices such as Charlotte Bronte's in Jane Eyre, that can be viewed in many ways as a variation of Cinderella. Bronte is able to connect easily to her readers by both using and twisting the conventional ideals and elements presented in Cinderella story and thus succeeds in re-shaping the......

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Title: Jane Eyre, The Victorian Cinderella
Approximate Word Count: 887
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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