“No man is an island” so goes the famous saying, I decided to borrow the saying and use it for this piece of work because it sufficiently describes the conditions of the main characters in both the plays “Cinderella” and “400 Blows”. Every person is a social being who needs to be loved, cherished, cared for and appreciated as we will come to explore in the context of the two scenarios used for this work this was absent. The topic is to find out, whether cruelty from father or mother which has more impact on the child.
Firstly, we are going to explore the first character in the play “Cinderella” we are introduced to a lady called “Marie”, she is an orphan who has lost her mother, she is left with the father who doesn’t seem to care much for