Into The Woods Play Analysis

Into the Woods Into the Woods is a musical that combines a number of different fairytales and their characters coming together such as Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and more. Cinderella wishes to attend the Prince’s festival, but her cruel stepsisters and stepmother prevent her from going. Jack wishes for a better life but his mother forces him take his cow into the woods to be sold because they are in dire need of money. Meanwhile, a baker and his wife sulk in the fact they have no children so in comes the Witch who reveals she placed a curse on their family because they stole from her precious garden. In order to reverse the curse, the banker and his wife must fulfil the list of demands made by the

By the middle of the play, everyone has gotten their wish and will seemingly live happily ever after. However, Jack’s beanstalk brings all a visit from an angry Giant as the rest of the play showcases how the characters deal with the consequences of their actions. I believe the playwright is centering around the themes of morality and possibly family/children. Almost all of the characters start off with wanting something that don’t and can’t necessarily have but soon find out what happens when they do get what they’ve desired all along. We always want what we don’t have or can’t have and never realize what we actually have until we don’t have it anymore. I believe the moral of this story is to appreciate what you have because you never know what could happen in the future that can change your life. The playwright is trying to tell us not to focus so much on what we don’t have and wish for things as if they don’t already have something

All Cinderella wanted was to go to the ball and see the Prince only to be taught the lesson that everyone isn’t always what they seem. I believe this moral of the story is quite common in movies and fairytales, as you can see, and I’ve noticed it’s always having to be told.

I believe this lesson is something a lot of us are taught or at least seen in movies, etc., and it’s almost an easy lesson to understand and enforce in your own life. However, I feel as though the reason this story is being told so often is because even though we may know and learn the lesson, we still get caught up in our day to day lives and end up slipping and making those mistakes. This lesson comes in different forms and shapes and is almost hard to tell when it’s happening or being said until it’s too late. As we get older, we should be getting wiser but it’s not about age that wisdom comes but from experience. There are new generations coming into the world and this lesson needs to be told on loop and media nowadays are thinking of different ways to showcase this important lesson through a common ground, entertainment. It’s always nice to see younger generations learning about the lessons you learned as a kid and are still learning as of today. We never stop learning because we are constantly being tested in different forms each day, whether we know it or not. We just all have to be aware