Introduction:
Cinderella
Lady Tremaine(Cinderella's Step mother)
Anastasia Tremaine
(Cinderella's Step sister)
Drizella Tremaine (Cinderella's Step sister)
Lucifer(Lady Termaine's Cat)
Jaq and Gus (Mice)
Prince Charming(King's son)
Fairy God Mother
Grand Duke and the King
Cinderella
Physical appearance
Cinderella is a
beautiful seventeen year old girl with shoulder-length, bouncy burnt orange
hair done in a French twist as seen with her iconic silver gown, which is later changed to blue. Her eyes
are a lovely shade of cornflower blue and she has rosy pink lips. Her small
feet are ideal to her famous glass slippers, of which the famous character she
is based on is most well-known for.
Personality
Cinderella is made a
servant in her own home and is constantly derided by her evil stepmother Lady
Tremaine and two stepsisters. Although she is shy and romantic, she maintains
hope through her dreams and always waits for her prince to come. She is hopeful
to the idea that someday her wishes of happiness will come true. When her evil
stepsisters and stepmother prevent her from going to the ball, she is unhappy
and fears that her dreams will never come true. However, her Fairy Godmother appears
and restores hope. In her childhood, she hardly went to play with other
children because of her forced servitude. She adores the mice and birds as
friends. She helps her little friends, and they love her dearly.
Lady Tremaine
Cinderella's father, a
windower, anxious for his daughter to have a mother figure, married Lady
Tremaine, who is described as "a woman of good family". She was a
window herself, with two daughters from her first marriage. After years of
living happily together as a family, Cinderella's father tragically died and
Lady Tremaine showed her true colors: cold, cruel, and sadistic: pampering her
own selfishly spoiled daughters, while forcing Cinderella to become a maid in
her own home, causing the stately chateau to fall into disrepair. Lady Tremaine
allows Cinderella to attend the Royal Ball, on the condition that Cinderella
finishes all her chores and finds a suitable dress. When Cinderella actually
finishes her work and appears ready for the Ball in a suitable dress, Lady
Tremaine (indirectly, but intentionally) mildly mentions the beads and sash
that Jaq and Gus stole from Anastasia and Drizella, provoking her daughters to
cruelly tear apart Cinderella's dress, leaving her unable to attend the ball.
When Cinderella, with the help of a Fairy Godmother, nevertheless attends the
ball, her stepfamily does not recognize her, but Lady Tremaine notes a
familiarity about her appearance as she dances with Prince Charming.
Anastasia Tremaine and Drizella Tremaine
1.Anastasia is portrayed just as awkward, clumsy,
foolish, and bossy as her sister, Drizella. Anastasia also has enormous feet.
During their music lesson, Anastasia plays the flute as Drizella sings but in
the sequels she has a beautiful singing voice. Anastasia quarrels with her
sister often, though they are united in their jealousy of and contempt for
Cinderella. Anastasia's most common dress attire is the magenta coloured dress
which she wears with a gold coloured headpiece and purple slippers and wears
pink bloomers underneath. Her hairstyle is in multiple long curls which run
down her back and sways when she moves. However, unlike Drizella, Anastasia's
hair style changes throughout the film. In the very beginning, her hair is much
shorter and the ringlets are tied back behind her head. When she sleeps and is
preparing for the ball, Anastasia's hair is put into a bun.
2.Drizella Tremaine is the light brunette haired older
daughter of Cinderella's evil stepmother. Drizella wears a chartreuse or
almost gold-toned green dress with center-parted hair ending in short sausage
curls on the back, and a greenish or turquoise blue hair ribbon on her head
tied up in a large, candy box bow. For the palace ball, she wears a
multi-colored gown with different shades of aqua, turquoise blue, pale green,
and jade green on the bodice, sleeves, and bustle, and wears a feather instead
of a bow in her hair. In her second movie, her ribbon changes to green. After
her downfall she is reduced to wearing a maidservant's frock. In live appearances,
and in many book illustrations, Drizella wears a dress similar to that shown
for the palace ball in the first film and wears green slippers and green
bloomers underneath. Like her sister, Drizella has enormous feet. She is
portrayed as haughty, abusive, sadistically cruel and highly unorganized. She
is enviously contemptuos of Cinderella's success and beauty and often gets her
into trouble. Unlike her younger sister, Anastasia, who changes her spiteful
ways and develops into a kind and good-natured woman, Drizella remains
mean-spirited and cruel, and never overcomes her hatred of Cinderella. She is
also depicted as having slovenly eating habits in the third movie, where she
samples the food and the wedding cake being prepared for her sister's wedding by
shoving handfuls of it into her face and eating them noisily. In the sequels,
though not in the original film, Drizella is exactly like a younger version of
her mother.
Jaq and Gus
Jaq (real name Jacques) and Gus
(real name Octavius) are two mice who serve as Cinderella's sidekicks
and the deuteragonists of the franchise. Gus has a penchant for cheese and fine
wine.Cinderella rescues the mice from traps and the cat Lucifer and dresses and
feeds them. They perform many favors in return. Jaq seems to be one of the
leaders of the mice, planning strategies to avoid the cat, sneak food, and help
Cinderella with her ball gown. The other mice gladly follow his lead. Jaq is
thin, with scruffy hair, and speaks a fast kind of pidgin English. Gus appears
in the first scene of the film, trapped shivering in a cage where Jaq finds him
and brings Cinderella to rescue him. Cinderella names him "Octavius,"
and calls him "Gus" for short. This is an example of an inside joke
among the writers and (some) viewers of the movie. Gus is actually short for
Augustus. In ancient Rome, Octavius was renamed Augustus when he became Caesar.
Hence Octavius - Augustus - Gus. Jaq explains the situation to Gus, that
Cinderella wants to help him, and Gus catches on and joins the mouse troop. Gus
has a large belly that pokes out of his yellow shirt and seems to be a bit slow
on the pickup, but brave in a pinch, and speaks even more broken English than
Jaq, who calls him "Gus-Gus". Gus and Jaq are responsible for
stealing the key to Cinderella's room from the wicked stepmother, Lady
Tremaine, and freeing Cinderella to try on the glass slipper, which of course
fits. While trying to steal the key, Jaq is stuck in Lady Tremaine's pocket and
gets knocked around as she pats the key. Gus gets trapped in a tea cup and Lady
Tremaine offers some tea to the Duke, with Gus inside. She begins to pour tea
into the cup and it drops towards Gus's large belly. Gus sucks in his belly to
survive, trembling and sweating, but in a moment the Duke says he wants none, the
tea lifts, and Gus is safe (though he gets his butt burnt by the tea later when
they get the key). They are last seen in the film in tiny palace uniforms,
eating and waving at the wedding of Cinderella and Prince Charming.
Lucifer
Lucifer
is the Tremaines' pet cat. He has black fur and is depicted as a sneaky,
wolfishly-wicked, manipulative and cheating mouse consumer.
Prince Charming
Prince Charming is Cinderella's love interest, he is a dark
brunet, tall, and handsome young man. In the first film, he has no given name.
It should be noted that Cinderella's prince is never actually identified in the
film as "Prince Charming", nor is there any clear reason why he has
come to be known by that title in the Disney vernacular. The only media where
he is referred to as "Prince Charming" as of today is Kingdom Hearts
Birth by Sleep and the attraction Prince Charming Regal Carrousel.
Determined to see
grandchildren, the King organizes a ball for Prince Charming in an effort to
cause his son to fall in love and marry, with every eligible maiden in the
kingdom ordered to attend. At the ball, Prince Charming rejects every girl,
until he sees Cinderella, with whom he is immediately smitten. The two dance throughout
the castle grounds until the clock starts to chime midnight and Cinderella
flees away from the castle, accidentally dropping one of her glass slippers.
Prince Charming picks up the glass slipper and the next day a royal
proclamation is issued, stating the Grand Duke will visit every house in the
kingdom to find the girl who fits the glass slipper, so that she can be married
to Prince Charming. After the slipper perfectly fits onto Cinderella's foot,
Prince Charming marries her.
Fairy God Mother
The Fairy Godmother
first appears in the film after the stepsisters tear Cinderella's gown to
shreds before Prince Charming's ball. She appears in the garden, and transforms
her appearance for the ball. She transforms the mice into horses, Bruno the dog
into a footman, Major the horse into a coachman, a pumpkin into the carriage,
and transforms her torn dress into a beautiful silver dress with glass
slippers. Cinderella departs for the ball after the Fairy Godmother warns her
that the spell will expire at the stroke of midnight.
