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    Molly-Anne Noakes 1299 ‘Metamorphosis’ – Steven Berkoff Coursework Social‚ Political‚ Cultural & Historical Non-Verbal communication Practitioner Language Character Analysis Vocal awareness Visual‚ Spatial‚ Oral Interpretation ‘My Mother Said I Never Should’ – Charlotte Keatley Social‚ Political‚ Cultural & Historical Non-Verbal Communication Language Vocal Awareness Character Analysis Theatre Review Word Count : 2672 Non-Verbal Communication & Practitioner Disconnecting the

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    family. Her guardian is often the key to the heroine receiving her greatest wish and is usually referred to as the Fairy Godmother. In some versions‚ the guardian is a representation of the heroine’s dead mother‚ sometimes in the form of an animal‚ or in Grimm’s version‚ a tree is planted over her mother’s grave; this provides the heroine with materials for the magical event. Most tales include a magical event sparked by a Piece of clothing that causes the heroine to be recognised for her true worth

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    Sandy and her beautiful sisters – analyses “Sandy and her beautiful sisters” is a short story written by Antonia Fraser. It is a rewriting of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. The story tells me‚ that being beautiful isn’t equal to being happy or to have a good life. The protagonist Sandy is a character with depth. She is‚ unlike her two beautiful sisters described as “plump” with long curly hair. Because of her lack in beauty Sandy has grown up being the unnoticed sister‚ which has resulted

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    Charles Perrault in Paris. The identity of the original author is unknown‚ although it has been re-written and re-interpreted many‚ many times by others all over the world. The most popular version of the piece appeared in Perrault’s collection of fairy tales penned under the pseudonym‚ Mother Goose. Later in the mid-twentieth century‚ Walt Disney created an American re-telling of the famous Mother Goose story‚ but reworked it by adding the character of the Huntsman who intervenes and kills the wolf

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    In “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother”‚ Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar formulate the cycle in which fairy tale women are subjected by the patriarchal society’s imprisonment‚ then turned against each other so they remain in power and are destined to repeat the cycle. Gilbert and Gubar examine how a sexual reference‚ like “she pricks her finger‚ and bleeds”‚ begins the cycle of the metamorphoses of the mother “into a wicked ‘step’ mother” (Gilbert Gubar 292). The wicked stepmother then tries many

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    Saint Petersburg‚ Russia‚ the classic Christmas ballet‚ The Nutcracker has been shown for over 100 years. The composer‚ Peter Tchaikovsky‚ and choreographer Marius Petipa teamed up to create a timeless production as an adaptation of E.T.A. Hoffman’s tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King." This pair had previously worked together on another classical ballet‚ Sleeping Beauty. Despite the great fame of the ballet today‚ The Nutcracker was not a success right away. It’s first production was basically

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    The timeless old tale of a little girl who meets a wolf on her way to Grandma ’s house has been passed down through oral tradition from one generation to the next. The tale of "Little Red Riding Hood" has existed for centuries as a warning for young‚ disobedient girls. According to what was considered socially acceptable and prudent behavior and according to the author ’s social and political standing‚ the tale has undergone significant changes. The story of "Little Red Riding-Hood" is a descendent

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    are thousands of variants known throughout the world. Upon the first glance it may seem like a simple fairy tale‚ but it is more than that. Through the use of the Marxism theory the reader will find that the story’s theme of power will be made apparent. In Charles Perrault version of Cinderella; or‚ The Little Glass Slipper the Marxist literary theory is very evident throughout the fairy tale. Marxist criticism helps the reader see the class from which it is written‚ reflecting the values and morals

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    Paragraph For Angela Carter By A.D. The original didactic purpose of fairytales is ever-present and self-modifying to fit the paradigmatic shifts of its context. Contemporaries like Angela Carter‚ reinforcing or challenging societal values or constructs‚ subvert fairytale archetypes to educate on social progression; through literary discourses such as post-modernism and feminism. In Carter’s ‘The Company of Wolves’ (1979) the blurring of the wolf or hunter archetype exemplifies the modernisation

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    Jacob Ledford Professor Vasconcelos Hammock English 1102M 21 January 2012 Sandra Cisneros Sandra Cisneros was born the daughter of a Mexican-American mother and a Mexican immigrant father. She grew up as the only daughter of a family of 7 children. The family frequently moved back and forth between Chicago and Mexico and she never had much time to settle anywhere. Cisneros graduated from Loyola University in 1976 with a bachelor’s degree in English and eventually went on to obtain her master’s

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