Cinderella Gone Evil

So Rubi is really entertaining, she is just sooo BAD!! She is almost completely evil you don’t even want her to end up with the love of her life Alejandro. It is really interesting to compare Rubi to the typical telenovela Rosa because it is completely Rosa but with a new twist. Rubi is Cinderella and the evil step-sisters all in one. Rubi is from a lower middle class family and becomes rich when she marries a prince, but to do so she has to steel him from her best friend Maribel! On Maribel’s wedding day! (told you she was bad). So there are lots of interesting twists to the classic Rosa telenovela, with out really doing any major renovation on the original format. I think that the gender roles are really interesting to look at in Rubi because they are REALLY traditional. The women are really stereotypical Rubi is like the “prostitute” because she uses her body and looks to get her way. Her mother, her sister and her ex-bestfriend Maribel are all virginal and pure characters. The men are good looking, strong and know how to control their women (there is a lot of shaking women around like rag dolls which is disturbing to me). Overall it is interesting to see that although Rubi may seem like a new kind of protagonist, she really is just an old formula re-mixed in a new way-but still really entertaining.