“It’s because of you there’s a giant in our midst and my wife is dead!”

First of all, it isn’t my fault I was given those beans you persuaded me to trade away my cow for beans and without those beans there’d have been no stalk to get up to the giant in the first place

theatrembti:

Cinderella from Into the Woods
ISFJ
by Rebecca
requested by @idontwannabethesupreme

Introverted Sensing (Si)
“I’ve been good and I’ve been kind, Mother, doing only what I learned from you.”
To move forward in life, Cinderella usually looks to the past for guidance, often leaning on the advice of her mother to pull through. This is seen most prominently in “Cinderella at the Grave,” where we see Cinderella has grown a tree to remember her mother and asks her mother what she should do. Under her stepmother and stepsisters, she is forced to repeat the same routines of work and chores time and time again, something which doesn’t seem to bother her as much as the fact that they’re controlling her. After she is married to the prince and the giant ends up intruding the lands, Cinderella puts on her old clothes once again and moves back into the persona of a peasant girl. Even as the world continues to change, Cinderella always seems to go back to what she already knows to keep herself steady.

Extroverted Feeling (Fe)
“Mother said be good, Father said be nice, that was always their advice. So be nice, Cinderella, good, Cinderella, nice good good nice.”
Cinderella is kind and good, often concerned with what other people think of her and how she affects them. This facet of her personality was developed as she was told to do so by her parents, following what they told her to do. Even though she has quite a bit of built up animosity towards her stepmother and stepsisters, she never lets it show as she wants them to view her as kindly as possible. When she goes to the ball and finds that she and the prince might be falling for one another, she worries about what he might think of her. In the second act, she ends up joining the others to fix the problem with the giant, acting as a kind and maternal figure for Little Red.

Introverted Thinking (Ti)
“He has charm for a Prince, I guess…I don’t meet a wide range. And it’s all very strange.”
Cinderella is intelligent, and she can often step back from a situation enough to look at it through a more logical lens. She shows remarkably flexible logic when it comes to “On the Steps of the Palace,” when she decides to leave behind a shoe and let the prince make her decision for her. Sometimes she ends up taking a situation and looking at it logically, such as how she tries to objectively analyze the prince in “A Very Nice Prince.” However, most of the time when she tries to use logic it is because she is trying to analyze different situations with Ne and is stressed. This can be seen in “Your Fault,” as she tries to defend herself from blame and pass it on to someone else.

Extroverted Intuition (Ne)
“You think, ‘What do you want?’ You think, ‘Make a decision!’ Why not stay and be caught? You think, Well, it’s a thought. What would be his response?”
For most of her life, Cinderella has never been able to make her own decisions - thus, when she is put into situations where she needs to act she ends up fretting over various opportunities. The entirety of “On the Steps of the Palace” has Cinderella flitting from idea to idea, unable to settle on anything as she worries. In fact, the only way that she gets out of the situation is by letting someone else take charge. However, Cinderella is one of the characters who we see wishing for more time and time again, never quite able to find her place. From the beginning of the show, to the end of the first act, to the finale, Cinderella is always saying “I wish.”