- “If I weren't so clumsy and plain.”
- ―Anastasia wishing she was a better person
Anastasia Tremaine is one of the secondary antagonists of Disney's 1950 animated feature film Cinderella. She is Cinderella's younger stepsister, Drizella Tremaine's younger sister, and Lady Tremaine's youngest daughter.
Her role significantly expanded over the course of the franchise, the prime example being Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, when she reforms.
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Background
She is the younger sister of Drizella and the daughter of Lady Tremaine and Sir Francis Tremaine. Sometime after her father's death, her mother then married a noble man with a daughter, Cinderella. After the death of Cinderella's father, they became cruel and forced Cinderella into servitude within her own home.
Personality
In the original film, Anastasia was portrayed as selfish, spoiled, and greedy as her sister, Drizella and her mother Lady Tremaine, and is portrayed as ugly both on the inside and the outside and not very graceful. She is very jealous of Cinderella's success and beauty and enjoyed seeing her slave under her, her sister, mother, and even their cat. In one scene of the first movie, her hair is tied in a bun.
Anastasia's character is fleshed out considerably in the sequels. Despite her mother's insistence that Anastasia marry someone to elevate her social status, Anastasia is more interested in finding somebody who will love her for who she is on the inside. While she is, indeed, ungrateful and rather ugly in the first movie, she's portrayed as being merely plain (compared to the beauty of Cinderella) rather than ugly as she becomes a more sympathetic character, and shown to have been ugly only as a result of Tremaine's upbringing.
It's possible that she was favored by Lady Tremaine, as in the third film, she chose Anastasia to wear the slipper and marry the prince when she altered history using the Fairy Godmother's magic wand (though it could be due to her finding the Fairy Godmother's wand), as Lady Tremaine had keenly exploited Anastasia's desperation for love.
However, Anastasia had a romantic side, as she had once felt a desire to fall in love with Prince Charming (upon whom her mother had placed a love spell to get him to love her), coupled with lingering guilt over her mistreatment of Cinderella. After speaking with Charming's father about love, she later realized that she wanted to be loved for who she is and not because of a spell or a trick. She defied her mother, returning the wand to Cinderella and apologizing for everything she'd done.
This repentant act earned her forgiveness from everyone, particularly Cinderella herself, and also the King who wanted Anastasia to keep the seashell his own wife had given to him, telling her everyone deserves love. Anastasia's repentance also prompted Cinderella to allow Anastasia to move into the Castle and become her lady-in-waiting. This ultimately saved her from the punishment imposed on Lady Tremaine and Drizella, as Cinderella believed that Anastasia had only mistreated her because she was also emotionally abused and manipulated into doing so by Lady Tremaine.
Her relationship with Cinderella was incredibly strained in the original film, but the sequels show that Cinderella was able to let bygones be bygones, particularly the third movie. However, Anastasia still felt some envy of Cinderella's incredible beauty as she was shown to be hesitant in gaining Cinderella's help to woo the local baker, with whom she fell in love. With Cinderella's help, though, she stood up to her mother and attended Cinderella's Ball with the Baker, thanking her stepsister, who declared that dreams really do come true, However, that would all be reversed as Lady Tremaine would turn back time, though after the events of the third film, she re-meets the Baker (although Lady Tremaine most likely turned back time before Anastasia met the baker).
Physical appearance
Anastasia has a slender figure, fair skin, a bulbous nose, long red hair, and black eyes. Her trademark appearance has her a long short-sleeved gown in different shades of pink and/or magenta and matching purple flats. Her long red hair is tied in several ringlets, and she has a golden hair clip on her head. When she was kicked by the horse and messed up before she ran away from the baker, the several ringlets on her hair were loose before Cinderella gave her a makeover. Anastasia's feet are unusually large for her age, with the glass slipper only managing to fit over her big toe; in the third film, she is shown to have wide soles and expressive toes.
On the night of the ball, she has a single light green feather on her head while wearing her trademark gown. Her sleepwear is identical to her sister, Drizella, wearing a pink long-sleeve nightgown with a white ribbon in the center, plus a matching sleeping hat.
In her makeover in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, she wears a purple long-sleeved gown with a collar resembling a short cape with a dark blue jewel at the center. Her red hair is loose and wears a purple choker and brown flats. She also wears gold rounded earrings and three gold bracelets on her left wrist. At the end of the segment where she and the baker dance at a party ball, she wears a light yellow, long short-sleeved formal dress and pale yellow shoes, her hair is still loose like her primary appearance, and long white gloves.
When she was a child, Anastasia's hair was shorter with a full fringe, and she wore a different shade of pink short-sleeved dress with a white-winged collar and a blue jewel in the center, though her facial features remain the same as young.
Appearances
Cinderella
Anastasia first appears during the prologue of the film. She is seen alongside Drizella, her mother and Lucifer, watching Cinderella and her father, as the narrator narrates about them, calling them about the same age as Cinderella. She is also seen alongside her mother and sister, as Cinderella mourns her father's death, the Tremaines revealing their cruelty, forcing her into a servant into her own home.
She is then seen during the present, as her and her family all call for Cinderella to serve them breakfast (with them treating her as a servant). However, due to Lucifer chasing Gus, she finds him in her meal, becoming shocked and enraged, calling for her mother to punish Cinderella, and as Lady Tremaine calls Cinderella into her room to speak with her, both Anastasia and Drizella try to listen to their conversation.
Anastasia and Drizella arguing over music.
Anastasia and Drizella are also shown to have large arguments, and are both quite bad with music. While they are rehearsing "Sing, Sweet Nightingale", as Anastasia plays the flute, she then unintentionally hits Drizella in the chin when her finger gets caught in one of the holes, bringing them into argument. However, when Cinderella enters and informs them that there will be a ball for the Prince, they are ecstatic and then mock Cinderella for wanting to go. After their mother reluctantly agrees, they seem shocked for her to allowing Cinderella to go to the ball, though Lady Tremaine explains. With them subsequently so she can't get ready, call for her to do more and more chores. However, when they are ready to leave for the ball, they are shocked to see Cinderella ready, though when she finds out that Cinderella is wearing her sash, they then in anger destroy Cinderella's dress, then leaving for the ball.
At the ball, they are then seen watching Cinderella (though they don't know that it is her) dancing with Prince Charming, with the three wondering who is that girl, and Lady Tremaine noticing something familiar on her, though not well as the Grand Duke forbade her seeing more, as the curtains rang down.
The next morning, Anastasia and Drizella are woken up, and in Anastasia's room, Lady Tremaine tells them that the unknown maiden lost her glass slipper and whoever it fits would become the Prince's bride, with them ordering Cinderella for preparations. Though she doesn't do them, enamored, with Lady Tremaine finding out the truth and locking her in her bedroom.
When the Grand Duke arrives at their home to see if the slipper fits or not, Anastasia's tries on the slipper first, though her foot is shown to be extremely large for her feet, and seems shocked to find out that Cinderella fits the slipper (and having the other slipper).
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True
Anastasia in Cinderella II: Dreams Come True.
In the second movie, Anastasia is the central character of the segment "An Uncommon Romance". She seems to have not changed until she meets with the town's baker, who catches her eye. However, Lady Tremaine disapproves of the baker's working-class status and tries to make her daughter forget about him.
As a result, Anastasia rebels against her mother for the first time. When she and the baker first meet, she is embarrassed after being kicked by a horse and sent flying into the bakery. Cinderella sees Anastasia and realizes that Anastasia has fallen for the baker, so Cinderella decides to help bring Anastasia and the baker together.
Cinderella encourages Anastasia to follow her heart and gives her stepsister a makeover, changing her looks for the better. As a result, the baker asks Anastasia to go with him to an upcoming ball hosted by Cinderella. The baker and Anastasia have a misunderstanding, as Anastasia thinks the baker is in love with another woman as she cries in the fountain, while the latter wanted to give the heart-shaped roses to Anastasia, but the roses were eaten by a goat who only left a single flower on the ground. Though Lady Tremaine is displeased as well as her sister, Drizella, who states her relationship with the baker is a disaster, and her mother attempts to drag her away, Anastasia blatantly disobeys her mother and remains with the baker, causing Lady Tremaine to leave in a huff, much to Drizella's surprise as she follows her mother. Her part in the movie ends with her and the baker dancing at another ball hosted by Cinderella, dancing with Prince Charming. Anastasia found what she wanted: true love, to which Anastasia displays great gratitude and affection towards her stepsister for helping her find true love. Cinderella, however, corrects her and states Anastasia always knew how to find it herself.
Cinderella III: A Twist in Time
Anastasia in Cinderella III: A Twist in Time.
Anastasia's largest role to date has been in the third and final installment where she appears as a main character and anti-heroine. A year following Cinderella's marriage to Prince Charming, Anastasia and Drizella are stuck doing her chores. Later, Anastasia, in an attempt to avoid more work, follows Cinderella and the Prince to a picnic held by the Fairy Godmother and the mice. She is seen climbing a tree, discovering that magic was what helped Cinderella to get her happy ending, only to fall and unknowingly grab the wand belonging to the Fairy Godmother. She rushes back to her sister and mother and shows them the wand, saying it was the answer to their prayers. Both Drizella and Lady Tremaine are skeptical until Anastasia accidentally transforms Lucifer's body into that of a goose and the Fairy Godmother (who followed Anastasia to retrieve her wand) into a stone statue, much to Anastasia's horror.
Finally realizing what's going on, Lady Tremaine then takes the wand and uses it to reverse time, to when the Grand Duke comes to their home with the glass slipper. Using the wand, Lady Tremaine alters the glass slipper's size so that it fits her large foot, much to Anastasia's excitement. Anastasia is taken to the palace, where it is intended that she will marry the Prince. Though Prince Charming is certain that Anastasia was not the girl from the ball, his memories are altered by Lady Tremaine using the wand and he proposes to her and Anastasia gladly accepted. Later on, Anastasia speaks with the King, who takes a liking to her. Apparently, Anastasia resembles his late wife, both in looks and in a lack of dancing talent. The king gives Anastasia a shell, which he claims is his most precious possession, as it was what made his and his wife's hands touch.
Over time, Anastasia realizes that Charming does not love her or anyone and begins questioning her mother's motives. However, Lady Tremaine's plans are revealed by Charming after he rescued Cinderella from being exiled (thanks to the mice producing the fixed glass slipper as proof), and the King furiously ordered the Tremaines to be arrested. Anastasia correctly realized that Charming's true feelings for Cinderella are too strong for the magic to get rid of, but still, in possession of the wand, Lady Tremaine sends Cinderella away with the wand and transforms Anastasia into a Cinderella look-alike, which Anastasia herself isn't happy to go through with, especially after Cinderella asked her if she even loves the prince. Cinderella manages to escape and arrives back at the wedding just as the vows are being exchanged.
Anastasia reunites Cinderella with the Prince
Anastasia's conscience finally gets the better of her, and unwilling to spend the rest of her life pretending to be someone she isn't, she refuses to marry the Prince, to the amazement of everyone, especially the real Cinderella, as she admits that she only wants someone to love her for who she is, not because of a magic spell. An infuriated Lady Tremaine emerges from the shadows and tries to turn Anastasia into a toad until Cinderella steps in to defend her for her honesty and warn her to not use magic to cause more harm to the kingdom. An unfazed Lady Tremaine decides to turn them both into toads, but the Prince intervenes and reflects the magic beam with his sword so that it hits Lady Tremaine and Drizella instead. Anastasia brings the real Cinderella and the Prince together and uses the wand to transform herself back to normal. Cinderella thanks Anastasia, and the two reconcile, putting their animosity firmly behind them. Together, they restore the Fairy Godmother. Anastasia later tries to return the shell to the King, claiming she does not deserve it, but the King refuses and allows her to keep it as he believes everyone deserves true love. She then hugs the King, who welcomes her into the royal family, and then watches happily as Cinderella and Prince Charming finally marry, restoring peace to the kingdom.
Cinderella and Anastasia reconcile.
At the end of the movie, Anastasia now lives at the palace with Cinderella and the Prince and is seen during the end credits in a picture with the baker from the second film, implying that despite her mother's attempts to change history, she met him and they were destined to fall in love anyway. This saves her from becoming a scullery maid like her now-estranged mother and older sister. This portrait shows the baker giving her a single cupcake in the painting.
House of Mouse
Anastasia makes numerous appearances in the animated series House of Mouse. She is usually found with Drizella or Lucifer. Anastasia along with Drizella was also a part of the villain gang in the animated feature Mickey's House of Villains.
In "Jiminy Cricket", she and Drizella were used as an example of negative temptations.
In "Ask Von Drake", she was seen trying on the slipper when Ludwig Von Drake appeared and advised the Grand Duke to try it on Cinderella.
In "Goofy's Valentine Date", Mortimer Mouse flirted with her and Drizella, until Lucifer attacked him.
Other appearances
An emoticon version of Anastasia appeared in the Cinderella entry of the As Told by Emoji short series.
Printed media
Poor Unfortunate Soul: A Tale of the Sea Witch
Anastasia and Drizella are mentioned by Ursula in the novel by Serena Valentino. She refers to them as the "horrible sisters".
Video games
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
Anastasia's role in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep starts out much like her role in the original film. When a ball is held at the Castle of Dreams, all unmarried women are invited for the prince to find a bride. Anastasia, along with Drizella and Lady Tremaine, attempted to keep Cinderella from going along by giving her endless chores to finish and preventing her from finding a suitable dress.
When Ventus and Jaq make it for her, she and Drizella tear it apart saying she had stolen their provisions. Their plot failed when the Fairy Godmother makes a new dress and a pumpkin carriage for Cinderella to transport her to the ball. She is unable to identify Cinderella during the party as she is too far away from Anastasia to be recognized.
After the ball, Prince Charming asks the Grand Duke to search for Cinderella with the glass slipper. When he finally reaches their house, Anastasia attempts to make the shoe fit her oversized foot, but Cinderella proves to be the true owner of the slipper.
The Duke takes Cinderella with him back to the Castle, only to be confronted by Lady Tremaine and a powerful Unversed who intends to dispose of Cinderella. This act, however, causes the three women to be hit by one of the Unversed's attacks. Aqua then states that they were crushed by the darkness in their hearts.
Other games
In Kinect: Disneyland Adventures, Anastasia and her sister were mentioned by Cinderella.[1]
Disney Parks
Anastasia, posing for a photo in Disneyland.
Anastasia is a semi-common character to spot in the Disney theme parks.
Walt Disney World
In the Magic Kingdom, Anastasia makes meet-and-greet appearances alongside Drizella. She is commonly featured throughout the park's Halloween seasonal events, such as Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. She can also be spotted alongside Prince Charming and Drizella in Main Street Electrical Parade.
She can also be found at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, for meet-and-greets, on occasion.
Disneyland Paris
Anastasia can sometimes be found in Disneyland Paris' Fantasyland, for meet-and-greet sessions alongside Drizella.
Disney Cruise Line
Along with Drizella and Lady Tremaine, Anastasia is prominently featured in the Broadway-style show Twice Charmed.
Gallery
Trivia
- In the Charles Perrault fairy tale on which the original movie is based, it was mentioned that one of the stepsisters was actually nicer to Cinderella than the other, if only somewhat. This was most likely the inspiration for Anastasia's reformation in the sequels.
- In addition, the stepsisters also apologize to Cinderella at the end of the Charles Perrault version, and she forgives them.
- It is actually a common occurrence in most retellings of Cinderella to have at least one of the stepsisters become nicer to Cinderella. i.e., in the live-action movie Ever After, the youngest stepsister Jacqueline is much kinder to Danielle/Cinderella than her mother, Rodmilla and her older sister, Marguerite.
- Cinderella forgives Anastasia because she most likely believes she had only mistreated her, because she was forced to do so as a result of the abuse that she, herself, had to endure at the hands of Lady Tremaine and Drizella.
- She is Drizella Tremaine's older sister in some international dubs.
- Anastasia's straight hair in Cinderella II is inspired by Ariel. Coincidentally, both women wore pink dresses.
- Anastasia's laugh is very similar to that of her mother.
- She is sometimes seen as the protagonist of the third film.
- The shape of Anastasia's foot changes in two of the films. In the first movie, it was long; in the third movie, it was fat.
- In the 1950 classic, Anastasia Tremaine is voiced by actress Lucille Bliss, for which she was honored 50 years later by the Young Artist Foundation with its Former Child Star "Lifetime Achievement" Award in March 2000.
- Anastasia is highly allergic to roses, as shown in Cinderella III.
- Anastasia was the first of Cinderella's stepfamily to hold the Fairy Godmother's wand.
- According to Linda Woolverton, Anastasia and her sister, Drizella are part of the reason why she removed Belle's wicked sisters in her penning of the adaptation for Beauty and the Beast, as she wanted to avoid confusion with them.
- In the second film, when Anastasia gets her dress ruined, she runs away and cries by a fountain. This is a nod to Cinderella's breakdown in the first movie.
- Both Anastasia and her mother wore purple. Interestingly, purple was only worn by royalty or of nobility in the 1800s and previously, implying the Tremaine household is noble.
- Anastasia's redemption in the third film was foreshadowed when she accidentally turns the Fairy Godmother into stone. The magic of the wand when it was in her hands was white, while in her mother and sister's hands it was in a green color.
- In the 1957 Disneyland Records Storyteller book and record set narrated by Jiminy Cricket, he gives Anastasia the nickname Stash for short.[2]
- In Disenchanted, during the festival sequence, Ruby's dress is modelled after Anastasia's while Rosaleen's dress is based on Drizella's.
See also
- Calliope
- Minerva
- Clorinda
- Florinda
- Lucinda
- Anastasia and Drisella Tremaine
- Anastasia (Once Upon a Time)
- Stacy
References
- ↑ Cinderella: "I'm sure Anastasia and Drizella are still in bed."
- ↑ https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-tale-of-disneys-cinderella-storyteller-albums
External links
Anastasia Tremaine on Villains Wiki
Anastasia Tremaine on Heroes Wiki
Anastasia Tremaine on Kingdom Hearts Wiki
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