Analyzing 4 Different Versions of the Evil Stepmother
I’m qualified because I played her in a 4th grade Cinderella musical
The evil stepmother is a caricature we are all familiar with.
Typically these characters are depicted with two specific traits, envy and a need to be unnecessarily cruel towards their stepchildren, and this cruelty is often directed towards their stepdaughters.
Wicked stepmothers have been prevalent in not only our modern-day films but in centuries-old fairy tales and they even trace back as far as Greek mythology.
Today, I want to analyze different variations of the evil stepmother from 4 different films.
- The evil queen from 1937’s Snow White
- The evil stepmother from 1954’s Cinderella
- Meredith blake from the 1998 version of the Parent Trap
- Cate Blanchett's take on the evil stepmother in 2015’s live-action Cinderella.
Then I’ll rank them on a scale of 0 to 5 poison apples, 0 being the least evil, and 5 being the most.
The Evil Queen - Snow White
I often forget that the evil queen is actually snow white’s stepmother and that’s most likely because she doesn’t even attempt…
