Stepmother And Stepsisters In The Film Ever After

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“Cinderella” is a classic fairy tale that everyone has either read or heard of. There are over 350 versions of Cinderella. The difference could be a tiny tweak or an almost completely different story, plot, and message. Regardless of the version, the mother is always absent, and in most versions, dead. The father in every version also disappears or is gone consistently. Andy Tennant is a screenwriter and director of the film Ever After. In the film Ever After, the father, after remarrying due to the passing of Danielle’s mother, dies and leaves Danielle alone with her two stepsisters, Marguerite and Jacqueline, and her new stepmother. The stepmother and stepsisters treat Danielle as lower class and make her a servant. No matter the …show more content…
Francis said that they would be shipped to the Americas, a bad place to live at that time unless by some miracle someone spoke for her. Even with Danielle standing before her stepmother ready to give her a fate worse than death, she forgives them. This proved that Danielle actually cares about her stepmother, even when her stepmother compares her to a pebble in her shoe. But, Danielle still gives her what she deserves, just not as harshly. At this moment Danielle and Rodmilla exchange each other's statuses. Danielle gains her status back and marries the Prince, she not only gains her old status, she actually improves upon it, when Rodmilla loses her once high, proud status. This scene shows that deserving people will always get the good things that they truly deserve, but it might take a lot of time, as Danielle’s was over ten years. The scene also proves that undeserving people might get good things at first, but in the end, they will receive justice. As it might take time for the deserving person to get their reward, it might also take time for the undeserving person to receive their punishment. The punishment might not happen right away either, the person might receive it in a year, ten years later, or even after they

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