Help! I need to write Cinderella from another point of view!!1 Like her stepsister, fairy godmother..?

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Help! I need to write Cinderella from another point of view!!1 Like her stepsister, fairy godmother, prince, mouse.. I need to make Cinderella a almost total different view... I was going to write it from her stepsisters point of view.... How would I make the stepsisters and the stepmother the good people and Cinderella the bad one? Or how would the plot of my story be.. Or what persons point of view should i write it form and how will that plot go? Please help!! Thanks

Answer 1

Well, I would suggest that you write the story from the prince's POV. That would easiest if you're having trouble. Start at the point where he sees her for the first time at the ball, and make the bulk of the story about his quest to find her.

If you did decide to do the stepsisters, you don't have to make Cinderelly seem bad and the stepsisters good. Just try to think like a selfish, spoiled lazy person and write from there.

Answer 2

Personally I would tell it from the Stepmothers point of view. Just because the point of view from the Stepsister has been told ("Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire). I would make it out that Cinderella was the antagonist in the entire situation. By striving to make the Stepmother punish her, because she has had no source of punishment in the past (what with her mother dying and her father not really around). Remember to every story there are three sides of it, your side, myside and the truth.

You could do it almost as an interrogation. Bring it into the modern day and have it be child protection services that have hauled this women off due to the way she apparently treated Cinderella.

Gosh, that sounds like a really fun assignment. I wish I would have had something like that when I was in school.

Answer 3

If you wrote it from the step sisterspoint of view, you could say how the stepsister envy Cinerella in a good way. That the stepsister is sad that she's never had a father before, and how Cinderella had a great father? And say how the stepsister feel in love with the prince, but Cinderella stole him from her? Hahaha, just some ideas...

Answer 4

There is a book called Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory McGuire that does this. Cinderella's hideous stepsisters are the protagonists while Cinderella is a snooty upperclass girl that really got what she had coming to her when the step-family came to her house.

Answer 5

If you are going to write if from the step sister's point of view you could portray Cinderella as a freeloader who only offers minimal help around the house. They see her as a mooch. Someone who doesn't provide for the family. You could also show Cinderella to be a trouble maker and a rebellious child. She causes problems for the Mother and doesn't do what she is told when she's told.

If you wanted to poke a little fun you could look at it from the point of view of the fairy god mother after she married the prince. Portray Cinderella as a Paris Hilton, sorta stupid, yet popular. Someone who now is a celebrity because she is wealthy. Show how she messes things up and causes shame and embarrassment to the crown and how the fairy god mother bails her out by fixing her mistakes, etc.

Answer 6

You could make Cindy a preening self-absorbed brat, always prancing in front of the mirror and bragging how much better looking she is than her stepsisters, who are stuck with her. The fairly godmother could be like the genie in Aladdin, who HAS to grant Cindy her wish to go to the ball until midnight. The stepsisters and stepmother tried to be nice to her, but Cindy just took all the nice treatment for granted and would stop hauling ashes and get out of doing her share of the chores the minute nobody was watching her. Something like that. And the prince can be a total idjit, for a perfect match.

Answer 7

Imagine yourself in the role and it won't be so difficult. How would you feel about having lost your stepfather, living with a step-sister, and then at the end getting shafted over a damn shoe. Trust me there are alot of angles you could work up. Cinderella could be a evil schemeing and plotting wench with designs on the prince from the very beginning. Just think about it.

In my writting class, we do something called "pre-writting". It's basically just writting down random ideas, trying to organize them, and getting an opening statement (main idea, thesis statement) This process helps immensely before you just start diving into writting something, it can actually keep you from getting writter's block. You might wanna try it.

Good Luck.

Answer 8

This has been done. Write it from the view of the pumpkin for originality. Other ideas include the Glass slipper, Cinderella's mother (from heaven or whatever), the King (watching his son fall in love with a peasent), really any person or for humor's sake any object. Good luck! Sounds like a fun project!

Answer 9

You can make it interesting... and create someone of your own not covered by the original story. Like say the prince's girlfriend :)
Or some other random person who had a thing for cinderella...

Answer 10

Just put yourself in the step sisters shoes...she would be jealous of Cinderella and in her view she would be a Witch (with capital B) OR
Watch Cinderella 111 It actually does tell from step sisters point of view...sort of
Bottom line..use your imagination....