Would you consider Cinderella's stepmother the stupidest woman ever?

[CelineBV]

If my memory serves right, she wanted wealth for herself and her daughters. Neither of the 3 even love the prince at all.

If she had treated Cinderella right (or apologize even if it's fake and then start treating her right) and let her get the prince, all 3 of them would've still enjoyed the priviledges at the castle, not done any chores and gotten with the other wealthy men.

Instead, her stupid plan got her nowhere. Just in Everafter with Drew Barrymore and Cinderella III, both the stepmother and the meaner stepsister got stripped from their titles and forced to work as worthless servants, never to enjoy the luxurious life nor get their wealthy man. Therefore would you consider that stepmother the stupidest woman ever?

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Instead she's too focus on getting her awkward daughters get the prince, too obsessed with that to point of not even thinking logic. She would've still gotten all the wealth she wanted from Cinderella too if she had just treated her right.

[Anonymous]

No. She was very ruthless and calculating. In the real world she probably would have succeeded. I mean she had already wormed her way into marrying cinderella's father and taking her inheritance. Cinderella as she was comjng of age was competition for any possible suitors for both herself and her daughters and as she did not have any male children by Cinderella's father when Cinderella married her husband would maybe be eligible to receive the estate of her late husband Cinderella's father so she could be left with nothing.

If you look at many of these fairytales the main charcter is living in very harsh extreme conditions under the control and in danger from very ruthless people in situations they have no control over until some miracle happens where they get help from new friends and a handsome dashing prince on a white horse rides in to take them away from the misery of their awful lives.

In cinderella I also think their is supposed to be some symbolism about a girl finding a husband before she gets too old.

I think in the real world in a similar situation Cinderella would have been murdered and buried in the forest by her Stepmother and Step sisters.

[CelineBV]

Thought even if Cinderella's husband (prince) got her late father's estate, if the stepmother had treated her right, I'm sure Cinderella can still talk to her husband about giving her and her stepsisters a room in the castle; then they would have access to the luxury. If the prince loved her, then he would understand they were her family and wouldn't leave them homeless. So it would've been a win-win situation for them if they had treated Cinderella right.

[Opinion Owner]

Thats not real life though. Like I said cinderella was competition for a good husband, thats why she was kept out of sight and not allowed to go to balls.
Cinderella's step mother is obviously a widow who had to find herself a man to marry for her and her daughters to survive. When he died and she didn't produce a child by him she was left in the same dangerous situation again. She was too old at this stage to remarry so it falls on her daughters. Any man cinderella married if he got the estate could kick them out, that's a big rich and there's no guarantee that he wouldn't.

[CelineBV]

Yet in both Cinderella III and Everafter, the nicer stepsister is shown living at the castle, with her own man, not in poverty and not punished as an eternal maid.
It depends on what type of man Cinderella married. If he's a decent man, he's not going to leave her family in poverty. There are other wealthy men too, not just the prince. Lastly, in the end the nicer stepsister wanted nothing to do with a wealthy man but someone that loves her for her.

[Opinion Owner]

Again none of that is what would happen in real life. The settings of most fairytales is in a very real, cruel, cold oppressive and brutal reality of the world they live in. Its the miracle of them somehow finding a happy ever after and the magic that makes them fairytales. When Cinderella is set women didn't choose who they marry and there was little chance of a handsome Prince riding in to save her, at most the Prince would have had his way with Cinderella and married a princess or duke's daughter.

[AviatorTom]

She was stupid but there are more stupid women. Ursula in "The Little Mermaid" got herself killed with her stupidity.

[CelineBV]

Indeed. They were so focused on ambition and wealth. They fail to realize they should've already gotten that in the kind manner.