Cinderella was a very misused young girl. Her father had died and she lived with a stepmother and two half sisters. The stepmother proved to be extremely mean and the half sisters demanding as well as vain and haughty. Very quickly Cinderella became their maid, and in due time their slave.

Cinderella became a slave for two reasons. For one she was a prisoner of the household. She had no other place to go and was helpless before the power of the others. Secondly, she felt herself to be inferior. When the fairy godmother appeared to her, she put herself down as being unworthy of the favor, not good enough to go out, and too cowed by her circumstances to take the risk. She was a slave to the situation which closed her in, and she was a slave within because of her growing poor self-image.

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