Preview

The Reality of Happily Ever After

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
651 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
The Reality of Happily Ever After
Lacy Fuentes
English 110
April 4, 2013
The Reality of Happily ever After And they lived happily ever after, a common ending to almost every bed time story and fairytale. Each fallacy is filled with stories about prince and princesses, finding true love, and the good overcoming the evil. These high expectations fill the heads of young girls, leading them to believe that everyone will find true love and everything will always work out. In the real world not everyone finds their one true love, and not everyone lives happily ever after. Each of these enchanted stories leads young girls to believe that there is always a happy ending. Many fairy these tales begin with a common girl in some sort of distress, she meets a prince who is her one true love who saves her from her misery, at then end of the story they marry each other and hap a happily ever after. For example, in the movie Cinderella, a young girl is orphaned after her father dies leaving everything to her wicked step mother who forces her to become the family’s servant while her two daughters live with ease. Cinderella sneaks her way into the prince’s ball only to have him fall in love with her, but as the clock strikes twelve she rushes off leaving the prince with nothing but a glass slipper to identify her. Resuming to her usual life of cooking and cleaning for her ungrateful family the prince sets out on a conquest to find his true love. After searching all across the land he finds Cinderella and they live happily ever after and Cinderella never has to serve her family again. This leads young girls to believe that their knight in shining armor will one day whisk them away from all their problems. Real life is not that easy, there isn’t some rich handsome guy for every girl waiting to rescue her and give her everything she ever wanted.
At the end of each fairytale like; Cinderella, Snow White, or Sleeping Beauty, each one of the characters is rescued by her knight in shining armor and becomes a

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Brothers Grimm

    • 1097 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Intro: Fairy tales are things we know to be true. We are believed that if we have a hard life to grow into, a "prince" one day will come and give us a kiss and make it all better. "bring us back to life" if you will, as we grow up we open our eyes to the possibility of landing flat on our face and throwing up a poisonous apple and dealing with life on our own before our "prince" comes to save us.…

    • 1097 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Most of the folklore found in different cultures are about princes or princesses going on great journeys to get to their objective. They are the hero of their own story and battle through different obstacles. Their strifes in life get them to the end where they can live out the rest of their days with whomever or whatever they…

    • 812 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Fairy tales are part of every Western child 's upbringing, and have been for decades. The method of telling and the stories them selves may have changed from the purely oral tradition to that of the written word with the introduction of the printing press and more importantly the Chap Book in the eighteenth century (Montgomery, 2009 p. 13). But the basic core of the tales remain hundreds of years on to instruct and delight children to this day. These days children are surrounded by fairy tales in the form of the books read to them at home or nursery/school, television and film adaptations, cartoons and even advertisements, as well as Christmas pantomimes. Each version they see will have differences, some more subtle than others, but the basic story will be the same.…

    • 2178 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the familiar more traditional version, Cinderella is a poor maid girl that, with the help of fairy godmother, gets a chance to meet prince charming. They fall in love, get married, and live happily ever after, and then what? What is a happily ever after? Is this even a realistic thought? In the dark comedic poem Cinderella, Anne Sexton forces the reader to examine this question. Utilizing literary devices such as tone, imagery, and style, Sexton encourages the reader to think about how silly and unlikely a fairy tale ending actually is.…

    • 1301 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    For many generations, the fairy tales, loved by many, have been passed down from relatives and friends, being shared and retold by one individual to the next. Growing and evolving as the years go by, these stories live on through readers’ lives. The deep connection between the timeless tales and the lives of people accentuates its need to exist in society. These fairy tales mold and shape people’s own stories and are a reflection of what individuals experience and encounter. During times when one feels lost and disoriented, fairy tales are a tool of navigation; they unveil a path and guide one down it. Not only do these tales provide insight to oneself, they impart an educational source to children and individuals in society. They spark and…

    • 1320 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Fairytales. When we hear or see that calming word, we automatically think of beautiful expensive ball gowns, charming handsome Princes, pumpkins turning into carriages, and the infamous ending of true loves first kiss. When growing up, many of us had these wonderful tales read to us before bed or at school with all of our friends. Fairytales, having been around for centuries, sends all kinds of important moral messages from being a child to facing the ‘beautiful’ world of adulthood. Growing up and being placed in the adult world, we come to terms that fairytales aren’t the classic stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Briar Rose, or Cinderella that we all know and love, its much more than that. We are surrounded by Fairytales, almost as if they…

    • 1583 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    For the past several years, I have been a babysitter for a little girl by the name of Magnolia. She and I have developed a clockwork schedule of our time spent together. Four o'clock we play princesses, five o'clock we eat, six o'clock we play princesses again, and by eight o'clock I am reading a story to her while she drifts away dreaming of faraway kingdoms. My favorite part is always story time; when her little hands eagerly shove her now tattered copy of Cinderella into my own. I always suggest another story, perhaps the Velveteen Rabbit, or Rainbow Fish, but to her her bedtime story is not complete without a princess, a brave knight, and a happy ending. These once upon a time’s are all that dominate…

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Mla Cinderella by Sexton

    • 1023 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Furthermore, from the day a girl can read, she’s read some sort of fairytale and dreams of having a life just like that, without thought about the real worlds problems. Sexton states: “Cinderella and the prince/lived, they say, happily ever after,/like two dolls in a museum case/never bothered by diapers or dust,/never arguing…

    • 1023 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    The common fairytale portrays the stereotypical “damsel in distress,” who is helpless until her male savior typically rescues her. Many fairytales address the theme of gender roles as well as many others. The female character takes on the feeble, desolate role, while the male character takes on the strong, hero role similar to the stories of Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty. However, Elizabeth, the protagonist of The Paper Bag Princess defies typical gender roles as a female character and becomes the hero of the story. Cinderella and The Paper Bag Princess share many qualities, but have major differences as well. Cinderella is an example of a woman who occupies traditional, domestic roles, but she does not portray the modern, liberated woman Elizabeth exhibits.…

    • 1829 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    In the author's article he presents the idea that girls should follow a more independent manner rather than the stereotype of princess who needs saving in modern films. With evidence from movies like Ella Enchanted where the princess is escaping the binds of having to marry her prince, rather than wait to be saved by her prince it is clear the author supports more feminist themes for modern fairytales.…

    • 614 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Cinderella Summary

    • 313 Words
    • 1 Page

    Today’s media plays a massive role in the establishment of a fantasy marriage that was first embodied in the classic tale of Cinderella. Many people are persuaded into believing that these finely crafted stories occur everyday and are very much achievable. Catherine Orenstein illustrates this in her essay “Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality”.…

    • 313 Words
    • 1 Page
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Anne sexton's cinderella

    • 946 Words
    • 3 Pages

    With many variations of fantasies, "Happily ever after" is reoccurring in every fairy tale. "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton is a different variation of the classic tale. The author sets up her version of Cinderella with four anecdotes sharing how others can go from poverty to riches or gritty reality to fantasy. Sexton changes her happily ever after ending by satirizing the message the story gives. By doing so, Sexton would like the reader to know the difference between a fairy tale and reality. Anne Sexton deconstructs the ending of her retold fairy tale by using sarcasm to change the reader's expectations of the story and myth.…

    • 946 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Cinderella In The Odyssey

    • 1270 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Everyone knows and loves the fairytale “Cinderella” where Cinderella starts out as a maid, wearing nothing but rags, and doing nothing but chores. She desires to go to this ball, but her nasty stepmother sends her to work right away, without allowing her to go. Fortunately for Cinderella, her fairy Godmother transforms her into a beautiful princess and lets her go to the ball, where she meets the price of her dreams. He is astonished by her beauty and in the end of the fairytale they fall in love. Everyone is fascinated by Cinderella’s story but one may not realize who is truly the reason for Cinderella’s good fortune. Without the help of her fairy godmother ensuring that everything worked out for Cinderella in the end, she never would have…

    • 1270 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Every little girl pretends to be a princess and prances around imagining a prince charming. Even when they grow up and become a woman, they're still waiting for that prince to come sweep them off their feet, so they can fall crazy in love and live happily ever after. This fantasy is much because of Walt Disney movies such as "Sleeping Beauty", "Snow White", "Cinderella", "Little Mermaid", and many others. These stories have been passed down for centuries and numerous versions exist today. There are many interpretations of the stories and their meanings that most people don't even recognize. Though the stories all seem different, some of them still have similar meanings. "Snow White" and "Sleeping Beauty" are two stories that have a common meaning.…

    • 878 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Fairy tales picture a world filled with magic, love and the triumph of the good over the evil. Fairy tales are a window to other worlds where the wildest dreams can come true and the hero always lives happily ever after preferably paired with his loved one. Although some people argue that fairy tales are full of stereotypes, filled with frightening monsters and promote racism and sexism I believe that they are wrong because fairy tales provide valuable moral lessons to children, teach them other countries' cultures promote the imagination and the cognitive development and therefore they should be read to young children.…

    • 2132 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays