Cinderella story
A beautiful and young girl named Cinderella recovering from the two deaths of her father and her mother finds herself reduced to a servant in her evil stepmother and her two evil stepsisters, her new stepfamily's household, but is given the surprise of her life when her fairy godmother appears to lend a helping hand. Starring Jennifer Beals as Cinderella, Matthew Broderick as Prince Henry, Jean Stapleton as the Fairy Godmother, Eve Arden as the Stepmother, James Noble as King Rupert III, and Edie McClurg and Jane Alden as the Stepsisters. Narrated by Joseph Maher. Written by Rod Ash and Mark Curtiss. Directed by Mark Cullingham.
17 total · 1 choice · 10 major · 6 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| fortitude | choice | Cinderella being stoic in the face of hardship is widely seen to be a moral of the story. |
| cruelty | major | The stepmother and her two daughters delighted in treating Cinderella like dirt. |
| fairy godmother | major | Cinderella's fairy godmother intervened to put an end to her plight. |
| jealousy | major | The stepmother envied Cinderella for the "incredible beauty", "sweet disposition", and "loving heart" that Nature had given her and not the stepmother. Cinderella's two stepsisters acted jealously as well. |
| magic powers | major | The fairy godmother magically transformed a pumpkin into a stagecoach, mice into fine horses, and a rat into a bucktoothed coachman. |
| mother and daughter | major | The stepmother was hoping to see one or the other of her two idiot daughters marry the prince. |
| romantic love | major | Cinderella and Prince Henry fell head over heels in love. |
| sister and sister | major | Cinderella was tormented by her two wicked stepsisters. |
| stepmother and stepdaughter | major | Cinderella was compelled to live as an ill-treated servant girl in the household of her cruel and spiteful stepmother. |
| the desire to marry above one's station | major | The stepmother reminded her two idiot daughters that the upcoming Royal Ball constituted their "one chance to nab a prince". In general, the stepmother was grooming her two daughters to nab a prince. |