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    Fairy Tale Analysis

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    Fairy Tale Analysis The Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty shows that women are very disobedient and curious when it comes to finding their sexuality and inner women hood by exploring a dark hidden room on top of the tower. A lot of fairy tales have numerous symbols that represent sex or sexuality and Sleeping Beauty is one great example. The curse that the thirteenth fairy gave her could represent menstruation when turning 15 years of age. The dark room on top of the tower could represent the curiosity

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    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

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    Reflection: Beauty Pageant This movie made me very upset. I found myself‚ while watching it‚ lashing back at the screen with comments of disgust. The whole beauty pageant thing is something that I do not understand that much about. To me it seems ridiculous; placing girls in a competition over their looks‚ which at times their looks are fake with the outfits‚ the make up‚ the fake tans‚ and the fake teeth. It does not represent what a young child really looks like. I am also upset with the

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    In these fairytales‚ women function as a mean to get a moral through to an audience. Woman are either portrayed as beautiful and naïve or beautiful and wicked. In the fairytales‚ not one woman is portrayed as just being mediocre. It is a women’s beauty that will help her attain what she wants or what she ultimately will be in life. It is a women’s duty‚ to be beautiful‚ passive‚ know how to clean and also be innocent‚ in order for her to live harmoniously throughout life. The Grimm’s’ knowledge

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    Rapunzel Research Paper

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    Jaimie Kim English 1: Language Dynamics First Draft of Analytical Essay November 6‚ 2012 “Well‚ I’m really not supposed to speak to strangers‚ but we’ve met before ...once upon a dream.” This quote from Sleeping Beauty portrays Walt Disney Productions’ grand tradition of Disney princess movies of how most of the female protagonists are waiting for her love. . In 2010‚ however‚ Disney created a movie‚ named Tangled‚ which was based on the Grimm Brothers’ tale of Rapunzel. Although Disney decided

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    Sun Moon and Talia

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    Sun‚ Moon and Talia: The Story of Sleeping Beauty A princess doomed to sleep forever until true loves first kiss... that is how the story goes right? That assumption would be wrong. The classic story of Sleeping Beauty has been around for hundreds of years. The general idea of the story has remained unchanged but the "how" of the story has evolved over the last 300 years. From the original works of Giamattista Basile‚ The Brothers Grimm to Walt Disney‚ authors have slowly changed the tale for the

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    The Enchanted Castle

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    darkness of the cave. As they reached the other end of the cave‚ there came a glimmer of daylight and they noticed a castle. They couldn’t find anyone outside the castle. Then they noticed a sleeping princess at the centre of a maze. She had jeweled rings on every finger. Considering her to be like the sleeping beauty Jimmy kissed on the princess’s pale cheek. Immediately she opened the eyes and wondered who aroused her from her long sleep of hundred years. She told it was an enchanted castle. She invited

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    Maleficent A Hero V

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    that they are just misunderstood? Sleeping Beauty’s Maleficent may be one of the wickedest and scariest villains in all of Disney’s movies‚ but recently Disney brought out a movie showing everyone more into her character and the story behind the villain. (Monk‚ 2014) “A revisionist fairy tale with a wonderfully sharp feminist edge‚ Maleficent features Angelina Jolie‚ pictured‚ in the title role of the famed villainess who tortured poor Aurora in Sleeping Beauty‚ the 1959 animated Disney classic

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    Disney animation movies has been a part of my life since the day I learned to walk and talk. I was also a bookworm. I love losing myself in stories and allowing my mind to travel as I daydream of the make believe places I read about. Aurora of “Sleeping Beauty” is one of my favorite Disney animated character. I used to draw her on every cover of my notebook when I was in elementary school‚ and had her posters decorated everywhere in my room. I remember receiving an Aurora doll as a birthday gift from

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    I Don’t Want my Child Watching That! “Disney princess fulfills every little girl’s dream of becoming a princess!”(Espia 2012). As this magazine tries to get more subscribers‚ it’s frightening that fairy tales dominate the imagination of young children. Fairy tales are stories that teach readers a message and are part of our daily lives. Fairy tales such as Disney princess movies teach children the negative stereotypes of girls‚ reinforce racism‚ and expose children to sexism. “More than 200

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