Ella Enchanted
Ella Enchanted is a 1997 young adult fantasy novel by Gail Carson Levine, retelling Cinderella with a twist: the heroine is cursed with obedience, compelled to follow any direct command.
The book won a Newbery Honor and was adapted into a 2004 film starring Anne Hathaway.
I loved Ella Enchanted as a kid.
- young adultPerson just past adolescence
- fairy taleMagical children's narrative
- CinderellaRags-to-riches heroine
- fairy godmotherMagical benefactor figure
- curseInvoked harm through words
obedience · prince · true love · ogres · elves · glass slipper · ball · stepsisters · magic · finishing school · Lucinda · Mandy · evil stepmother · quest · Hattie · Anne Hathaway · book adaptation · fantasy
- Magical Movies/ShowsHarry Potter, Bewitched, Sabrina, The Witches, Practical Magic
- girls' fictionNancy Drew, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, A Little Princess
- Fantasy FilmsLabyrinth, The NeverEnding Story, Willow, The Dark Crystal, Pan's Labyrinth
narrative theme (free will vs. compulsion)
Ella Enchanted1984
Dystopian surveillance state tale
Brave · Brave New World · The Giver · Mulan
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