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Essay: Cinderella’s stepsisters by Toni Morisson.
This essay, titled “Cinderella’s stepsisters” appears as a fairy tale or story. However, it is basically a persuasive essay in which the author uses rhetorical tools to deepen her thoughts, which thoughts are germane to women. Indeed, in this essay, women are questioned. Basically, it talks about how women seem to interact with each other in this society and how far this interaction seems to put aside the essential: Their nurturing sensibilities and their caring nature. Worriedly, she says “I am alarmed by the violence that women do to each other: professional violence, competitive violence, emotional violence. I am alarmed by the willingness of women to enslave other women. I am alarmed by a growing absence of decency on the killing floor of professional women’s worlds.”(Third paragraph, page 298. Across Cultures)
The essay seems to direct the behavior of contemporary women towards the ideal of feminism: “I am suggesting that we pay as much attention to our nurturing sensibilities as to our ambition.” she pointed it out.
Rhetorical, critic, persuasive, the message of the essay looks “clean” and clear: Guiding the conception of feminism to the ideal of life for women: Women for women, not women against women.
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