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Chapter 10
Themes
and Colors
Key
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Cinderella is Dead, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.
Sexism and Feminism
Love
Oppression and Control
Coming of Age
Revolution, Solidarity, and Teamwork
Summary
Analysis
Sophia frees herself from the guard’s grip and escapes through the window. She hurts herself on the ground below but continues walking. She finds herself in a corridor with a locked door. Behind the door, someone is crying. Sophia asks the person behind the door who they are, but all the person will say is that Sophia should run away and save herself. Sophia hears the guards approaching and runs. She wants to find her friends but doesn’t know how, so she runs into the woods. She soon gets lost. As she looks for a way out of the forest, Sophia discovers Cinderella’s mausoleum.
Sophia’s encounter with the stranger in the palace hints that King Manford has secrets that Sophia has yet to uncover. She escapes the ball, which is built upon a romanticized and mythologized version of Cinderella, and finds herself at a monument to Cinderella’s death. The contrast represents Sophia leaving behind the restrictions that grew from the palace-approved Cinderella story.
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