Morgan le Fay Nimue alias Vivienne‚ Lady of the Lake Perceval Mordred Galahad Places: Avalon and Camelot Objects: Excalibur‚ the Sword in the Stone‚ the Holy Grail Fairy Tales The Ugly Duckling Snow White Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Rumpelstiltskin The Princess and the Pea The Pied Piper of Hamelin Little Red Riding Hood Hansel and Gretel The Frog Prince The Fisherman and His Wife Cinderella Bluebeard Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Aladdin Examples and Non-Examples Effective Example:
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Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday Literary Analysis Sandra Cisneros is an amazing writer. Growing up as a shy‚ introverted girl‚ no one would have ever thought she would eventually become a successful and very accomplished author‚ especially since she is a Mexican woman coming from a poor upbringing. In one of her works‚ “Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”‚ she uses figurative language such as imagery‚ details‚ and metaphors to create a victorious atmosphere
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What kind of world would we live in if we had no culture? It would almost be like staring at a blank canvas. A world with no culture is like a world with no color‚ making everything around us seem washed out and boring. Culture is what makes people who they are and what they believe in‚ giving them the ability to have an imagination and an idea of what’s right and what’s wrong. There are folktales that has been passed down for decades so people can share and remember all of the traditional cultures
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collection Children’s and Household Tales and published the first of its seven editions in Germany in 1812. The table of contents reads like an A-list of fairy-tale celebrities: Cinderella‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ Snow White‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ Rapunzel‚ Rumpelstiltskin‚ Hansel and Gretel‚ the Frog King. Dozens of other characters—a carousel of witches‚ servant girls‚ soldiers‚ stepmothers‚ dwarfs‚ giants‚ wolves‚ devils—spin through the pages. Drawn mostly from oral narratives‚ the 210 stories in the Grimms’
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English Literature Carol Ann Duffy: Hour Context Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate (2009)‚ and probably the best known female poet working in Britain today. She was born in 1955 in Glasgow. Duffy is well known for poems that give a voice to the dispossessed (people excluded from society); she encourages the reader to put themselves in the shoes of people they might normally dismiss. Her poetry often engages with the grittier and more disturbing side of life‚ using black humor
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Where as others see her relationship as inappropriate‚ Ruth views the ritual of breastfeeding as comparable to the “gold thread spun by the miller’s daughter in Rumpelstiltskin‚ the milk from her breast nourishes her son as “golden thread stream from her very shuttle” long past the age when a child would nurse” (Bloom 56). Ruth was seen by the janitor Freddie‚ who for years will keep this secret but marked the child
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Where as others see her relationship as inappropriate‚ Ruth views the ritual of breastfeeding as comparable to the “gold thread spun by the miller’s daughter in Rumpelstiltskin‚ the milk from her breast nourishes her son as “golden thread stream from her very shuttle” long past the age when a child would nurse” (Bloom 56). Ruth was seen by the janitor Freddie‚ who for years will keep this secret‚ but marked the child
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Professor Rania Said Re-visioning Fairy Tales 26 June 2015 Reimagining Violence in Modern Fairy Tales Often times in literature we see modern adaptations created by authors in order to display mild to significant changes on the original piece of work. These modern adaptations reimage themes displayed in traditional versions of the fairy tales. For example‚ violence is often tamed in modern adaptations but exaggerated in original versions such as “Snow White”‚ “Hansel & Gretel”‚ “Little
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INTRODUCTION: James Finn Garner is an American writer and satirist based in Chicago. [ ] He is the author of Politically Correct Bedtime Stories‚ [ ] Politically Correct Holiday Stories‚ Apocalypse Wow‚ "Once Upon A More Enlightened Time" and May 2007 "Recut Madness". Garner graduated from the University of Michigan‚ where he won a Hopwood Award for one of his short plays. Politically Correct Bedtime Stories‚ Garner’s first book‚ have sold more than 2.5 million copies in the U.S. and has been translated
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I. On to Canada Over Land and Lakes Due to widespread disunity‚ the War of 1812 ranks as one of America’s worst fought wars. There was not a burning national anger‚ like there was after the Chesapeake outrage; the regular army was very bad and scattered and had old‚ senile generals‚ and the offensive strategy against Canada was especially poorly conceived. Had the Americans captured Montreal‚ everything west would have wilted like a tree after its trunk has been severed‚ but the Americans
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