Cinderella as a Shadow figure
Cinderella as a Shadow Figure
Cinderella is a shadow figure. She is ignored and neglected by her elder sisters.
They go out into the world, but Cinderella is shut up indoors. This represents the contrast between the conscious ego (which relates to the outside world) and those parts of the unconscious that have not been allowed any part in one’s conscious activity.
However, Cinderella eventually escapes from her imprisonment and marries the Prince.
This marriage symbolizes the joining together of conscious ego (Prince) and shadow (Cinderella), which is the end result of the penetration of the conscious mind by the unconscious and/or the penetration of the unconscious by consciousness.