Compare and Contrast Essay

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When most people think of the movie, "Cinderella", they think of the animated Disney version with the little mice and the happy ending where Cinderella marries the prince and they live happily ever after. While the movie "Ever After" is based on "Cinderella", it is not animated, but still has many of the same characteristics as the Disney version. Of course it is not exactly the same, and since it is not animated there are many differences.

In "Ever After", Drew Barrymore portrays the character Cinderella, who in the beginning of this movie is called Danielle. In the very beginning, it shows how Danielle's father died and how she went off to live with her wicked stepmother and stepsisters. In "Cinderella", both of the stepsisters are wicked, but in "Ever After", her sister Jacqueline is not so wicked and usually sides with Danielle. In "Ever After", Jacqueline is the not so pretty and quiet sister and Marguerite is the loud obnoxious pretty one.

One similarity is that in both movies, Cinderella and Danielle are servants to their stepmother and stepsisters. They are also not allowed to eat with them, only serve them. In "Ever After", Danielle's only friends are the other servants of the house, this is similar t

In "Cinderella", the ball is held so the prince can get to know the young women of the town, and to see if he will be able to find a suitable wife. In "Ever After", Danielle's stepmother tells the queen that Danielle has left and she will be getting married to a Swedish man, when really she was locked up for fighting with Marguerite. Henry, the prince gave up on Danielle and his only other choice was Marguerite. The ball is actually held to announce that the prince will be marrying Marguerite.

At the end of "Cinderella", the prince and Cinderella live happily ever after. In the end of "Ever After", the wicked stepmother is called to the palace. She doesn't know that Danielle and the prince are married. The king and queen question the stepmother of lying to the queen. They tell her that if she doesn't tell the truth, she will be killed. She confesses that she lied to the queen about Danielle. Just then Danielle comes in dressed as the princess she has become, and her stepmother kneels before her. The only punishment that she gives her is the punishment that she had to go through herself as a servant. The stepmother and Marguerite are brought down to the washroom and they are put to work. Jacqueline the other sister is not punished because her innocence had been noted.

In "Ever After", Danielle repeatedly bumps into the prince. Whenever she does meet up with him, she makes sure she is dressed like a courtier, so he doesn't think that she is a servant. They start to fall for each other and they spend more and more time together.

In "Ever After", the prince decides that he has made a big mistake in changing his mind against Danielle. He takes the slipper and goes out on a mission to find her. Danielle's stepmother had sold Danielle to one of the dirty old men of the town to be his servant. Danielle fights for her freedom and just

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Approximate Word count = 1261
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English