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    centered around one woman’s Holocaust experience and intermixed with the classic fairy-tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. Yolen’s uses of classic fairy-tale elements such as a prince and the curse of a long sleep are used to connect us to the horrors of the death camp Chelmno. The result is a story that is fresh and shocking as it tears away any of the numbness one may feel for another account of a Holocaust survivor. Suddenly the fairy-tale ideas of rescue and evil are invested with modern connotations. Jane Yolen

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    Essays on Fairy Tales A good fairy tale essay should define a fairy tale as an English language term referred to short narratives‚ which explicitly refer to fairies. Fairy tale essay should also interestingly emphasize the differences between fairy tales and other legends or moral stories. A Fairy tale essay should essentially describe fairy tales as simple fiction stories based on the imaginations of the writers. Fairy tales essay will also increase the imaginary power of the readers‚ be it children

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    My Preference of The Doctor’s Tale The tale that I selected to read was the astronomy practicing Physician. This story of love‚ in hatred and bigotry was extremely interesting to read however‚ on the same note the wording was tremendously derived in Middle English tone which made a few sections difficult to understand and comprehend. The non-bible reading doctor’s tale is interesting from beginning to end‚ he paints a vivid picture of all his characters and there attributes using immense direct

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    Gender Expectations in Cinderella Our culture is full of fairy tales. These fairy tales started out as entertaining stories‚ but as they were handed down from one generation to the next‚ they slowly became more than that. They became bedtime stories for children‚ and as such‚ they have great importance because they teach children how to be in the world. One such fairy tale is Cinderella‚ and a look at a storybook for children‚ Disney’s Cinderella‚ adapted by Lisa Ann Marsoli‚ demonstrates

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    Definition of a Princess

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    of a Princess Every little girl has once wished (upon a star) to one day be a princess in a fairy tale. However‚ do they truly understand what the definition of a fairy tale princess is? Fairy tales have created a definition and a set of requirements of a true princess‚ a definition and a set of requirements that could easily be applied to a pretty teacup or any other inanimate object. These fairy tales have defined a princess as someone who is unrealistically beautiful‚ passive‚ with no voice

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    which are prevalent in Jane Yolen’s novel‚ Briar Rose. Yolen produces a very powerful and complex novel exploring the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust. Yolen has intertwined the facts of the Holocaust with the story of Briar Rose‚ a traditional fairy tale‚ in order to speak about the Holocaust without having to go into the historical detail of the experience. Yolen whose background is Jewish has previously written a novel detailing the Holocaust‚ uses Briar Rose as an extension of her work. Significant

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    once upon a time

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    Analysis Fairy tales have specific elements that the reader can catch on to when reading a story. When reading a fairy tale‚ we think of princesses‚ princes‚ happily ever after ’s and once upon a time. In "Once Upon a Time" the story has many of the elements of a fairy tale such as good vs. evil and a problem that needs to be solved. One element is the special beginning and endings. A fairy tale begins with "Once upon a time...". We see the special beginning in the title "Once Upon a Time". Fairy tales

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    In order to classify a story as a fairy tale‚ according to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ the story must be a tale containing actual fairies‚ an imaginable artificial story‚ or an absolute dishonest story. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are not novels about fairies or are completely false stories‚ but they do contain imaginable artificial plots in which a young girl named Alice travels to different worlds in her dreams. Through the creative adventure of these dream stories‚ one

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    An Untraditional Fairy Tale Fairy tales have been told throughout the world for hundreds of years‚ and have come to be well-recognized and cherished by much of society. They follow a typical – if anything but overused – plotline‚ with cliché characters and a beautiful happy ending. However‚ some of the most popular modern-day classics differ greatly from their original endings. For example‚ in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid‚ Ariel exchanges her mermaid tail and voice for human

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    through using the personal pronoun in “Gemma‚ tell your story again” which shows that the story Gemma is telling is personal. The fact that this is at the beginning of the novel‚ and is retold more than once by Gemma shows the significance of the fairy tale to the grandchildren and Gemma herself. Additionally‚ this quote acts as an indication to the theme of the novel‚ showing the importance of stories in seeking truth. This idea is also shown through the allegory in the line “I curse you Briar Rose…

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