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... Cinderella is shedding her ball and chain. ...
Ever After - A Cinderella Story marks this change in leaps and bounds. ... Henry actively pursues her after vowing to his concerned but impatient father, the King of France, that he will choose a bride by the night of the royal masked ball. ...
Everything is disrupted, however, when Danielle’s stepmother learns of her rendezvous with Prince Henry and decides to detain her in the cellar to keep her from attending the masked ball. ... He helps her escape and convinces her to attend the ball and confess everything to the Prince.
Ever After essentially climaxes at the ball, where all truths are revealed during the meeting of Danielle, Henry, and Danielle’s stepmother. ... Danielle retreats from the ball and heads home to nurse her emotional wounds. ... ” (Kolbenschlag 533) Using this essay as a tool of analysis, it is easy to see how writer/director Andy Tennant’s Ever After has broken many of the oppressive traditions in Cinderella. ... (Kolbenschlag 535)
In Ever After, the character of Danielle exudes the range of human emotion, a range that Cinderella never fully achieved. ... (Kolbenschlag 535)
The absence of the specific fairy godmother element in Ever After is important and closely tied into the theme of the development of a woman’s independence. ... This would seem to prove once again that Ever After is a progression of sorts in terms of modern morals as they relate to the story it is based upon. ...
Every change in the basic Cinderella story told in Ever After revolves around the same idea: that strength, change and the realization of self-worth come from within.
Approximate Word count = 1854
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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