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    Villains in Fairy Tale Stories Almost every fairy tale story has an evil figure. Evil figures that put harm on the main characters life or other people’s life in the story. Evil figures are people in the story who do not want peace for everyone but himself or herself‚ people who are selfish‚ jealous‚ evil‚ and harmful. Those evil characters also prompt interest and allure in the story‚ and sometimes those characters are the reason of the climax in the stories. For this essay the three evil characters

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    Frozen is one of the Disney fairy tales that shows women as powerful and can make their own decisions and aren’t dependent on men and both genders are strong and powerful and do not overpower each other and is written by a female‚ but the fairy tales that are written by men are presented differently. It is evident that males are more dominating and have more power and the females are presented as weak and have no voice/opinion. That being said in the fairy tale “Cinderella” written by Charles Perrault

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    Brian Johnson 12/16/12 G Hour Animal Farm‚ A Fairy Tale Do you think that George Orwell compared the animals to the people in Russian History correctly? Orwell did a good job at comparing the animals to the people in the novel “Animal Farm‚ A Fair Tale. He uses facts about the person to define the animal characters. Boxer represented the working class because he is a cart-horse. Boxer has incredible strength; he is also dedicated to work. One of Boxer’s mottoes are “I will work harder”. Boxer

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    out. The story‚ “Hansel and Gretel”‚ has been a classic fairy tale for a very long time‚ and has been told over and over again. There are many different versions of this story‚ and it has been altered through many years of retelling it. There has been debate whether fairy tales have underlying meanings between the lines‚ or are just stories to entertain and pass along through generations. It is also wondered if the original tellers of the tales intentionally created meanings in the stories‚ or if that

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    Fairy Tales as Moral Lessons When most people think of fairy tales‚ they usually imagine a beautiful princess that needs to be rescued‚ a valiant prince that rescues her and a happily ever after involving a wedding between the prince and princess. People imagine monsters and witches‚ but sometimes‚ when they read a fairy tale they may notice an underlying moral to the story that teaches us to do good deeds rather than bad. I read The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen several

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    labeled fairy tales because both stories incorporate mystical characters. Rumplestiltskin‚ from which the book gets its name‚ is the mystical character who spins straw into gold. In Stardust‚ several characters possessed magical powers. As well‚ the witches could put spells on the other characters and Yvaine never grows old. It is the interaction between mortals‚ mystical characters‚ and their peers which provides the reason for the label fairy tale. Another component often found in a fairy tale novel

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    Anuj Arora July 10‚ 2011 Critique Mark Davis Not so Motherless In Elisabeth Panttaja’s‚ article Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior the author offers an analysis of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. Panttaja’s analysis may be off-putting to some because she describes Cinderella as being crafty and not a princess who is virtuous or patient. Panttaja claims that Cinderella was not as motherless as it seemed. She does on to say that we cannot assume that just because she is the heroine that she

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    and normal in relationships and society. Right from childhood young girls are taught that they are objects that are chosen by men. Fairy tales send misleading messages to young girls about love and relationships. I think the media socializes people‚ and shows them certain social scripts on how to behave and how their expected to behave in society. Disney fairy tales are a good example of this because they depict how the media thinks romance and gender roles should be played out. In the Article peer

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    Often times‚ when it is a matter of someone being offended‚ this results in censorship of whatever happened‚ or the artwork that was displayed. That is not always a bad thing though‚ for example the Grimm brothers’ children’s and household tales. These gruesome tales have been changed and edited due to their nature of murder‚ incest‚ rape‚ and other terrible things. They were meant to teach a lesson‚ very different from our modern adaptation of using the stories for pure entertainment. In this process

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    Cinderella As children most of our life lessons were acquired through the simplicity of fair tales. Subliminal messages taught us to always believe in true love and that good wins out over evil. Young and naïve‚ as children‚ all we desired was a good story and a nap‚ but the lessons we learned lasted a lifetime. Growing up my beloved fairy tale was Cinderella‚ not only does true love win but good wins over evil and eventually the world is set right. Once upon a time in a kingdom far away‚

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