We all know the step-sister from 灰姑娘 that ends up reforming in the sequels. However, many people seem to have criticisms about her because they feel that she shouldn't have been forgiven 由 Cinderella, there was nothing to 显示 that she deserved to be redeemed, and that it's ridiculous that she got to be redeemed but Drizella didn't. First of all, I think I need to explain where this idea of 真假公主 reforming came from. In the original Charles Perrault version of Cinderella, Cinderella's real name was actually Ella. When she became a servant she would sleep 由 the fireplace to keep warm and would have ash cover her. Her step-mother and one of her step-sisters called her Cinder-Slut but the younger step-sister, who was not as spiteful and was slightly 更多 sympathetic, referred to her as Cinderella. That is where the idea of making one of the step-sisters redeem herself. But I know the 问题 is, why 真假公主 and not Drizella? What makes 真假公主 so special? Well, let's take a look at the original film for that answer.

Cinderella (1950)
At first look at the movie, especially since people don't pay enough attention to is, it appears that 真假公主 is just as horrible as Drizella. However, if 你 pay enough attention, you'll see that Drizella is a lot worse than Anastasia. One instance is that when 真假公主 is playing the flute and gets her finger stuck in one of the holes, she ends up accidentally hitting her sister with the flute below the neck. Drizella clearly sees that 真假公主 was struggling to get her finger free when she moves away from the flute, but she grabs the flute from 真假公主 and hits her on the head with it, calls her clumsy, and claims that she did it on purpose. 真假公主 in turn retaliates 由 hitting Drizella on the head with her flute and says "You always think it's my fault," her mother interrupts them arguing and 真假公主 says that it's Drizella's fault. It's likely that anytime 真假公主 does something clumsy 或者 由 accident that Drizella taunts and abuses her. It's likely that when 真假公主 is abusing 灰姑娘 it's just her taking out her frustration of being abused 由 her sister (to which her mother does not punish Drizella for) out on Cinderella. I'm not saying that this gives 真假公主 a good excuse to abuse 灰姑娘 because two wrongs don't make a right but I do understand it from a psychological sense. Also whenever their making fun of Cinderella, it's always Drizella who starts it and 真假公主 just follows to keep her mother's approval (who has raised her daughters to believe that 灰姑娘 is beneath them) and avoid taunting from Drizella. Drizella is the one who taunts the idea of 灰姑娘 going to the ball first and is the first one to destroy Cinderella's dress, 真假公主 merely followed, likely to avoid the disapproval of her mother and the taunting of her sister. Drizella is the 更多 aggressive one who always starts the fights with 真假公主 and is the one who starts the taunting of Cinderella. Such as when 真假公主 accidentally steps on Drizella's dress and Drizella just pulls her dress, causing 真假公主 to trip and almost fall face down on the ground, humiliating her in front of the prince. Another instance is how 真假公主 is going over to the mirror to get ready for the Grand Duke but Drizella rudely just kicks 真假公主 out of the way. 你 also can see in that exact scene that 真假公主 is nervous about the whole thing, likely because it's her chance to find 爱情 and marry the prince, where as Drizella isn't nervous at all but instead sees it as a way to improve her status, causing her to aggressively push 真假公主 out of her way to look in the mirror and get ready. Plus if 你 notice in the scene where Lady Tremaine tells her daughters about the glass slipper and they start getting ready but they notice 灰姑娘 looks strange. 真假公主 simple 回复 "What's the matter with her?" where as Drizella says "WAKE UP STUPID!" 展示 that Drizella is definitely MUCH 更多 aggressive and cruel than 真假公主 was. I will admit that for a LONG time I couldn't figure out why 真假公主 reformed but Drizella didn't. But when I think about it, 真假公主 was the softer and less aggressive one, so therefore she was the logical choice.


Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True
Now we get to 真假公主 actually redeeming herself, at least in this alternate universe, since the sequels don't exactly have continuity with each other. We see that 真假公主 is longing for romance and Drizella is 表演 abusive towards 真假公主 once again 由 pushing her out of the way so she can use her mirror and ruining Anastasia's ribbon. Her mother again is trying to get her daughter's married off and plans on using Cinderella's ball as an opportunity. She sees both of her daughters as ways to improve her social class and likely doesn't even 爱情 them, though whether 或者 not she loves them is debatable.

We also get to see 真假公主 fall in 爱情 with the local Baker but her mother forbids it because she thinks the Baker is beneath her, unfortunately 真假公主 is too afraid to go against her mother. I think this supports my theory that 真假公主 did what she did in the original to keep her mother's approval because I think she fears her mother. 真假公主 is quite timid and of course wants her mother's love, not knowing that her mother is too unfeeling to 爱情 anyone. 真假公主 seems to not know what real 爱情 或者 happiness is. She can't even do a real smile because she's never had a real reason to genuinely smile. Her mother always taught her to be fake and plastic. A scene that I 爱情 that shows her genuinely smiling is when she gives a shy little girl a flower. When she's finally being kind and experiencing real love, she's finally happy and is able to let the true beauty inside of her out.

Speaking of beauty, I think I should talk about hers. Another reason I think she abused 灰姑娘 was because she was jealous of her drop dead gorgeous looks. In the original she was portrayed as ugly but in the sequels she's only portrayed as plain compared to Cinderella. The creators 说 they made her head shaped 更多 appealing looking and made her smile beautiful. Unfortunately, she's not a conventionally beautiful young woman. She even says in this movie that she needs 更多 than just a little help because she's so clumsy and plain. She has her make-over and is feeling beautiful for once in her life, almost like she was a princess and Cinderella. However, she loses her hope when she thinks she sees the Baker giving 花 to a pretty young girl (who is actually just a friend). She feels like a fool for thinking that anyone would 爱情 her because she's ugly and completely unloveable. She's never had real 爱情 in her life, not even from her own family (though we don't know much about her father), and for once she thought someone could 爱情 her but her hopes were ruined. She even says to the Baker when he finds her "Don't look at me! I look horrible!"

It's very true that neither one of them is conventionally attractive, so it's obvious that it wasn't their looks that they fell for. They could see what was inside the other. She saw a sweet, kind, caring, and romantic man who even fought a goat just to save one flower. He saw a woman who deep down had a good 心 and just needed someone to help her see the beauty that's inside. He couldn't care less what she looked like and loved her for who she was, knowing this caused 真假公主 to finally stand up to her mother, something she had never done before. Plus, I think she's beautiful in an unconventional way but she's even 更多 beautiful on the inside, which is conventional.



It's in this movie was we start to see some similarities between 灰姑娘 and Anastasia. They both have dreams of happiness but are kept from it because of Lady Tremaine's prejudice (against Cinderella, which keeps her from Charming, and against the Baker, which keeps 真假公主 away from her happiness), both have an abusive sister, their dresses are ruined and they run off crying, 真假公主 receives help in gaining confidence and obtaining a 更多 attractive appearance from 灰姑娘 (much like she did from her Fairy Godmother), both think they will have their happily ever after but their dreams are shattered and cry (Cinderella when she's locked in her room and 真假公主 when she thinks the Baker is giving 花 to a pretty young girl but is actually just a friend), and thanks to 爱情 and courage their dreams come true in the end. But they also grow a strong bond with each other because of Cinderella's kindness. 灰姑娘 is a very big person to forgive 真假公主 like that and even try to help her. I think she sees some of herself in 真假公主 and is grateful for the help she received, so she wants to help others, even Anastasia.



Cinderella 3: A Twist In Time
Once again, alternate universe, since the 灰姑娘 sequels don't have continuity with each other. But either way, both sequels have a thing about making 真假公主 complex, sympathetic, and redeemable. We see that 真假公主 and Drizella are both forced to become servants to their mother, who won't get off her lazy 屁股 to do anything. 真假公主 is still being abused 由 Drizella, who attacks 真假公主 just because she put some dishes in the sink. Along with that, suggests that her and Lady Tremaine beat 真假公主 with a stick, starts a 食物 fight at the palace, constantly insults Anastasia, and even suggests to their mother to turn 真假公主 into a toad. And people wonder why Drizella was never redeemed? I sure as hell don't anymore!

We see that 真假公主 still wants 爱情 and even looks enviously at Charming and Cinderella. She steals Fairy Godmother's wand and accidentally turns her to stone, which she instantly regrets. She now gets a chance to be with the Prince but is also conflicted because she's taking away Cinderella's happy ending. She's been in Cinderella's shoes 由 being treated like her, not only 由 her own mother, but also 由 her sister who is a servant just like her. So she's walked a 年 in Cinderella's shoes, though now she's walking to the palace in one of her glass slippers.

This movie also adds to the theory that 真假公主 has never had real 爱情 in her life. When she keeps messing up when she's dancing with Charming, she seems afraid of what he'll say to her and keeps making excuses. When he's assuring her that it's alright and claims that he's probably just not up to 日期 on the latest dance steps. He showed her kindness and it actually confused her at first because she's never known genuine kindness, which is probably another reason why she was rude to 灰姑娘 when she was politely telling her good morning. She unfortunately mistakes kindness for true love. Charming does like 真假公主 but I think it was 更多 of as a friend and not true 爱情 like he felt for Cinderella.

This also brings up an actually very peculiar but also very unique, interesting, and heartwarming relationship between 真假公主 and the King. There's a relationship 你 never thought you'd see 或者 even think about. It reminds me of Toph and Iroh from Avatar: The Last Airbender, it's an odd relationship choice but it actually really works. 真假公主 is once again afraid of having to gain someones approval but it turns out that the King loves that 真假公主 is a horrible dancer. Why? Because it reminds him of his late wife, she used to step on his feet when they danced too, but he loved her anyway because she took very good care of his heart. He even gives her the Queen's most prized possession, a seashell that they found while walking along the 海滩 the 日 they met. Their hands both touched it at the same time and when their hands touched they knew they had found true love. He helped 真假公主 realize what true 爱情 really is and even treated her like his own daughter.

Lastly, her redemption. When Charming brings back Cinderella, Lady Tremaine turns 真假公主 into Cinderella. So 真假公主 is about to have everything she thought she ever wanted: riches, a prince, power, jewels, her mother's approval, and now is even drop dead gorgeous. She has everything she thought she ever wanted but she's not happy because she's not herself and she wants someone who loves her for who she is, not as someone else. She's not even sure if she'll be happy 或者 if she even loves Charming. It's not until she touches his hand and realizes she doesn't, causing her to say "I..... don't..." at the wedding. She reunites 灰姑娘 and Charming 由 putting their hands together. She even turns herself back into her true form, saying goodbye to the conventionally beauty she had been jealous of since she was a little girl. She in the end earns Cinderella's forgiveness because that's the kind of person 灰姑娘 is. She's 更多 of who we should be rather than a relatable person. It's very big of her to forgive 真假公主 because a lot of people wouldn't. It's not good to hold a grudge and we should learn to forgive those who have caused us pain, whether 或者 not they want forgiveness 或者 not, because you'll feel SO MUCH better and you'll be the bigger person. 灰姑娘 shows this message perfectly and 真假公主 feels bad for what she's done but doesn't ask for forgiveness because she knows she doesn't deserve it. That's made clear with how she offers the King back the Queen's seashell because she says she doesn't deserve it. But she's shown to deserve forgiveness because "everyone deserves true love."



Once Upon A Time In Wonderland
Just so 你 know, I'm not going to talk about the 真假公主 Tremaine from the live-action 灰姑娘 because there is no complexity 或者 layers to her. This 真假公主 Tremaine (played 由 Emma Rigby), I will talk about. She's the only reason I watched this inferior spin-off, though at the time she was just the Red 皇后乐队 and it wasn't until one of the last five episodes that they revealed her to be 真假公主 Tremaine 由 bringing up that she thought that if the prince had chosen her instead of her step-sister that her mother would of loved her. Coincidence? I THINK NOT! I think it's awesome that they're portraying her as sympathetic and complex even outside of the 灰姑娘 sequels. What's odd is that in the original TV series, 灰姑娘 actually wasn't one of the main characters and has only appeared in a handful of episodes in all four seasons but 真假公主 is one of the main characters in the spin-off.

Lady Tremaine continues to cause a lot of emotional problems for 真假公主 由 criticizing her for being with the one she loves, saying she knew she wasn't 皇后乐队 或者 princess material but that she should have at least landed a nobleman, basically calls her a disgrace, disowns her, and says that when (since she believes that 真假公主 will come crawling back to her) she comes back to bring a bucket because she'll only be welcomed back 由 being a servant cleaning her chamber pot. This caused 真假公主 to make bad choices in Wonderland, such as leaving her true 爱情 for the Red King and not going back to her 爱情 before the wedding (like she intended to after having 秒 thoughts), because she felt that she had to prove herself, that she needed someones approval, and feared that she would die a nobody that nobody cared about. She even uses that pain to help her learn magic and for once feels empowered.

She starts off in the 显示 as one of the two antagonists, the other being Jafar (played 由 Naveen Andrews), who are trying to get Alice (played 由 Sophie Lowe) to make all three of her wishes from her true love/genie, Cyrus (played 由 Peter Gadiot). The reason for this is because they need three certain genie lamps in order to change the laws of magic (you can't bring back the dead, 你 can't make someone 爱情 you, and 你 can't change the past) but they can't do that until Alice as made all three of her wishes. 真假公主 wants to change the laws because she wants to change the past and stop herself from ever leaving her true 爱情 Will Scarlet/The Knave of Hears (played 由 Michael Socha), who is the Once Upon A Time counterpart of The Baker and was actually Alice's traveling companion. She reforms and joins the 超能英雄 side. At the end of the 显示 she goes from the Red 皇后乐队 to the White Queen, with her White King, Will, 由 her side ruling Wonderland in peace and harmony.



Overall
真假公主 is an amazing, complex, sympathetic, developed, and tragically underrated character. She's one of my 最喜爱的 fictional characters and one of my 最喜爱的 迪士尼 characters. I actually 爱情 her 更多 than all of the 迪士尼 Princesses, except Ariel, of course. I hope I have helped people see that there is 更多 to 真假公主 than they think and that her reforming isn't completely out of no where. Please 评论 and let me know what 你 think.