SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN

THE DESIGN SCHOOL

FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT

NAME: CHEONG SIEW YING ( EELYN)

STUDENT ID NO:0314618

FILMS SELECTED: ANIMATED FILM (CINDERELLA VS. SNOW WHITE)

WORD COUNT: 963 WORDS

ENGLISH 2 (ENGL 0205)

WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY

LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA

SUBMISSION DATE: 5TH DECEMBER 2013

Everyone have their sweet memories in their childhood and mostly filled up with

animated films. There are different types of animated films produce nowadays since the

advance of technologies. One of the types of animated films being produce is by

computer animation such as 2D and 3D animations are widely, which are very common

nowadays. When I was still a little girl, there’s not much animated films produced,

‘Cinderella’ and ‘Snow White’ are my favorite animated films at that time. There are

similarities in the both films, which are produce by same company background, main

character’s background, plot of stories and the stories ending.

One of the similarities is, The Walt Disney Company, which is also known as Disney was

founded in as a cartoon studio in 1923 produced ‘Cinderella ’and ‘Beauty and the beast’.

The founder of the company named Walter Elies Disney. The Walt Disney Company

(Disney) was a famous animation industry and has a prestigious history in entertainment

industry that stretching over 75 years , known to providing entertainment to kids and the

adults. Numerous of award won by the company, one of the awards won is the Academy

Award for creation of ‘Mickey Mouse’ which is worldwide well- known cartoon till

nowadays. In 2013, Disney ranked No. 2 on World's Most Respected Companies list.

Another similarity of both films is the main character’s background. The main character

in Cinderella animation film is Cinderella meanwhile Snow White is the main character

for the Snow White animation film. Both characters are known as Disney Princess. In the

both stories, Cinderella was born in a wealth family while Snow White was born in a

royal family. Cinderella and Snow White live peacefully when both of their parents were

still alive. The happiness turns sadness, humble life began after the death of their real

mother and the fathers remarried to a cruel, vain and wicked stepmother. They have been

treated as a servant by their stepmother. Cinderella’s stepmother locked her in a room

because she does not allow Cinderella to join the dress ball. Cinderella’s friends, the mice

and little birds helped her made a dress but unfortunately, her dress was tear off by her

two evil step sister but she was save by a fairy godmother. As for Snow White, her

stepmother asked one of the soldiers to kill her because her stepmother was jealous for

her beauty. The kindhearted soldier not bear to kill her so he brings her to somewhere far

from the palace. Then, she met seven dwarfs.

Besides that, both of the characters have similar personalities and physical appearance.

Both of the characters are kind hearted, although they were badly treat by their

stepmother, they did not have any complaint or blame them. In addition, they are a polite

person who often spoke softly to their stepmother although they dislike their stepmother.

Cinderella’s personality of polite was clearly shown when she was having conversation

with her stepmother and friends. As for Snow White, she spoke softly to the seven

dwarfs. Moreover, Cinderella and Snow White like to sing. In the stories, Cinderella

sings while she was cleaning the floor in living room. Snow White have a wonder voice,

she attracted a prince attention when she was singing in one day. As for physical

appearance, both of them are beautiful and always get jealous by others, for instance,

Drizella Tremaine and Anastasia Tremaine, the stepsisters of Cinderella always jealous of

the beauty of Cinderella. The Queen, stepmother of Snow White who are so proud of her

own beauty get jealous and try to kill Snow White when she knew that Snow White is the

most beautiful women. Both of the character have fair skin tone with softly- shape kind

face.

In addition to that, both characters felt in love with a prince, which is the plot of the

stories. Cinderella met his true love when she went for the fancy dress ball. She gets her

wish courtesy of her Fairy Godmother, who does the pumpkin-into-coach bit, then

delivers the requisite be home by midnight warning. The prince immediately falls in love

with Cinderella when he first saw her. The prince and Cinderella dance happily in the

dress ball. As for Snow White, when her stepmother knew that Snow White haven’t die,

she pretend herself as old lady and gave a poison apple to Snow White. Snow White

collapse into magical sleep and the seven dwarfs thought she was dead. The seven dwarfs

unwilling to bury so they keep her in a glass coffin trimmed with gold in a clearing forest.

The prince who attracted to her when she was singing passed by and saw Snow White in

the coffin. The prince was upset and kisses Snow White, she was cured and awake by the

first kiss from the prince. The romance of both character are clearly shown in the stories

when they met their true love. After they meet their true love, they married and live

happily after ever.

In nutshell, both of the animation films are used to be my favorite cartoon show. Every

time when I show the cartoon characters, it keep remains me of my childhood, the simple

life with no worries. But now everything are different, worries keep increasing, fake

smiles from social, problems getting harder, awareness among people and so on.

Although I’m almost nineteen years old now, but I still watch animated films to filled up

my time and mind.