Ugly sisters Brian Murphy and Roy Hudd (Amnesia and Magnesia), and Paul Merton and Ronnie Corbett (Lucretia and Griselda). Unlike the Grimms' version of the fairy tale "where the sisters were themselves 'beautiful and fair in appearance,'" Disney's depiction presents Drizella and Anastasia as ugly sisters. Southwest Texas State University's Department of English identifies various distinguishing characteristics of Drizella and Anastasia, such as exaggerated and naked feet emphasizing physical nature and a big bustle emphasizing clumsiness, of these characters versus their more positively presented counterpart, Cinderella. Disney describes them as simply "spoiled, awkward, and ungainly." Doris and Mabel are ugly sisters in
The Flight to Lucifer The Flight to Lucifer The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy is a 1979 novel by the critic Harold Bloom, inspired by his reading of David Lindsay's fantasy novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920). The plot, which adapts Lindsay's characters and narrative and features themes drawn from Gnosticism, concerns Thomas Perscors, who is transported from Earth to the planet Lucifer by Seth Valentinus. The book received mainly negative or critical commentary, and was compared, including by Bloom himself, to "Star Wars" (1977). Bloom eventually repudiated the work. Thomas Perscors ("through fire"), an incarnation of Primal Man, is taken from Earth