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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelRomantic-comedy is a very popular as genre since it offers a light hearted
humorous plot with a focus on romantic situation and ended in a happy ending.
Ever After is a romantic-comedy that I am interested to analyze since it offers a
different feeling from the other adaptation of Cinderella stories. I am interested in
analyzing how masculine/ feminine traits are reflected in the character of the
prince and Cinderella in Cinderella; and Henry and Danielle in Ever After. I use
the Prince and Cinderella gender traits as the reference in analyzing Henry and
Danielle gender traits. In Ever After, Henry who portrays the Prince is described
as a man who is childish and egoistic while Danielle who portrays Cinderella is
described as a woman who can get out of her trouble through her own effort.
Henry’s and Danielle’s traits are different from the original story of Cinderella by
Perrault which described The Prince as a mature gentleman and Cinderella as a
woman who waits for the others to help her. I find that there is a change of traits
from the Prince to Henry and Cinderella to Danielle. Thus, I use the concept of
masculine and feminine gender traits by James Park in order to analyze the gender
traits of the Prince, Cinderella, Henry, and Danielle. Through the concept of
gender traits, I find that the Prince is reflected as a masculine man since he only
has masculine traits and Cinderella is reflected as a feminine woman since she
only has feminine traits while Henry and Danielle have both masculine and
feminine traits on them. In the study, I find that masculine and feminine traits
actually are a social convention which changes according to the social and
historical context and they are not permanent.