Exposition
Rising Action
- Main characters: Cinderella, Anastasia, Drizella, and Lady Tremaine
- Setting: France, mid-1800's
- Initial conflict: Cinderella gets in trouble for something she didn't do, and gets extra chores as punishment.
- Background information: Her father decided that Cinderella should have a mother, so he married Lady Termaine. He ended up dying and the step-mother was now in charge of the estate. She soon demoted Cinderella to no more then a maid.
Falling Action
Jaq
(The Mouse)
Cinderella
- protagonist
- supporting
- flat
- Speech: When he speaks you can tell that he cares for Cinderella a lot
- Actions: He is willing to risk his life in order to get Cinderella free
- "Poor Cinderelly. Ev'ry time she find a minute, that's the time when they begin it. "Cinderelly! Cinderelly!"
- He helps Cinderella find her true love
- Cinderella marries the prince
- She goes to live with the prince in his beautiful castle
- protagonist
- main character
- round
- Speech: Very elegant, loving, and encouraging
- Looks: She is very beautiful
- "Have faith in your dreams and your rainbow wil' come smiling through."
- She is the character that develops the theme by believing that love will find a way
- Cinderella finds out she can't go to the ball
- The fairy godmother comes to her rescue
- She dances with the prince
- The clock strikes 12 o'clock and she has to hurry home.She loses her glass slipper in the process
- The prince makes a proclamation saying whoever this fits into this show shall be his wife
Theme
One major theme in Cinderella is good conquers evil.
Climax
Lady Tremaine
(step-mother)
Resolution
- The climax is when the prince put the glass slipper on her foot and asked for her hand in marriage.
- Antagonist
- main character
- dynamic
- Speech: highly sarcastic and manipulative
- Actions: very cruel and mean
- She locks Cinderella in her room so she doesn't have a chance to try on the shoe
- She helps Cinderella realize good conqures evil
- They tie up all loose ends and live happily ever after.
Movie Plot Diagram: Cinderella
By: Vanessa Minnis
Per: 7