Proposal

Pan's Labyrinth uses the myth of fairy tales and the fairy framework to tell a dark story of a young girl, who believes in magic, living in the midst of a war in Spain with her slowly dying mother and a monster for a stepfather. It is hard to connect this film with just one fairy tale in particular because Guillermo del Toro includes so many elements from the fairy tale framework itself. For example, good versus evil, use of magic, having the main character complete tasks with a guide, a role model who is dying, a trip into another world, the chance to become a princess, etc. There are pieces in this film that could really go with several fairy tales but for some reason, Cinderella stuck out to me in reguards to having mean stepparents-- So I chose to compare the two.