Cinderella & Pans Labyrinth

 Lady Tremaine is a nasty, mean-spirited old woman who forces Cinderella to perform unnecessary chores and duties, and even encourages her own daughters, Drizella and Anastasia, to tease and mock their kind-hearted stepsister at every occasion. Lady Tremaine is so evil, in fact, that even her cat, Lucifer, comes off as a vicious and reprehensible figure. And who else but a very evil person would name a cat Lucifer, anyway?

I compared Pan's Labyrinth to Cinderella because Ofelia has a very oppressive and "dictator" type step father. Once Ofelia arrives at the war camp, she meets with her new step-father, a cruel and sadistic Captain Vidal. The character is a perfect representation of Spanish Fascism and, on a philosophical level, of the oppressive material world most people abide in without questioning which prohibits the full emancipation of the being.



I compared these two because I thought they were similar in many ways. You watch a step parent take control of a nice child. Both of the women in these stories were very determined, loved their families, and simply loved the world- and they were unfortunately were in a bad situation with a step parent.