The Video game Fable II is an RPG game for the Xbox 360. In the beginning of the game, the person playing the game is able to choose between being a homeless boy or homeless girl. After playing the game I realized that, when a person chooses the girl as their character, the story line resembles Cinderella tale in a way. The way this game resembles the Cinderella fairytale is that the little girl starts out with nothing as an orphan on the street, but as the storyline progresses she becomes a hero who is able to achieve what ever she wants.
Even though the story line does not match exactly with the Cinderella story, the part about a girl coming from nothing and achieving great riches mirrors the Cinderella story.
Another example of the fairytale Cinderella is Knut Hamsun's novel Victoria. This novel reverses the gender roles found in the conventional Grimm story. The woman in this story is the rich one with the man being from a poor; he does not have the social status to catch the eye of the royal woman. Although she does fall in love with him, she tries to live aqs an elite woman would. Nonetheless, in the end she kills herself while the man in the story lives out his life. Hamusen flips the conventional Cinderlella stort upside down.
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