When you think of a fairytale you initially might think of a damsel in distress and a great knight ready to battle the wicked witch to save her. However‚ there is more to each story than pure amusement. Each in their own way I waiting to mold young minds by teaching simple morals in a way that they can understand. Yet‚ by reading a politically correct version of Cinderella‚ it removes the simple educational values that the original portrays. For being a politically correct story it portrays humans
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Fairy tales help to establish gender roles at a young age to characterize and represent the ideals‚ values‚ and roles that each gender should succumb to. Females are taught to be kind‚ sweet‚ week‚ honest‚ self-sacrificing‚ and beautiful. On the other hand‚ males are taught to be courageous‚ brave‚ saviors‚ and wise. Many of these characteristics are shown in Snow White. However‚ in lemony Snicket’s‚ A Bad Beginning‚ the novel challenges many of these ideas by providing the reader with alternate
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Charles Perrault’s Cinderella comes complete with a classic fairy tale ending. The slipper fits and Cinderella marries the prince. Thus‚ the reader infers that he lives "happily ever after." When a tale’s ending is so basic it is tempting for a reader to consider if Cinderella lived a truly happy life. Lynne McFall contemplates this idea in Pig Happiness. Pig Happiness contemplates whether a life is truly happy in some different circumstances. The scenario that fits Cinderella the best would be the
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Dan Ledden English 102 September 29th‚ 2015 Professor Schleicher Disney’s Cinderella vs The Brothers Grimm The story of Cinderella is a very well-known folk tale that dates back centuries. Today‚ most people know the tale from the popular Disney movie made in the early 1950’s. This movie did do a pretty good job of capturing the overall theme of the original folk-tale; however‚ there are many differing factors between this version and the older version to which I’ll be comparing it (the Brothers
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Growing up my mom read me a lot of stories‚ but the two that I loved the most were Little Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks. These stories were my favorite because they taught me life lessons and the characters were completely different from other story characters. I like how Goldilocks just walked into a strangers house. I like how Little Red Riding Hood is just talking to a wolf and eating the food that she is bringing for her grandma.These two stories also taught me not to talk to strangers and not
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I describe common knowledge as widely known facts that the public and audience knows. These facts do not need to be cited due to the fact that everyone knows about them. My subject is about Disney princesses and their impact on young American girls. An example of common knowledge regarding my subject is that princesses from Disney films are popular among the young generation of America‚ and especially for girls. This does not need to be cited because everyone knows that a lot of American girls like
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In comparing The Grimm Brother’s “Little Red Cap” and Sharon Singer’s paintings of the infamous little red riding hood story‚ there are numerous similarities to be found. Singer’s painting “Fast Food”‚ depicts a dark and uncanny scene in which naked doll lies at the foot of bloody wolf paws. The naked doll in Singer’s bleak painting represents the vulnerability of Little Red Cap during her encounters with the wolf. Little Red Cap description as a “dear little girl” who was loved by anyone who “set
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In the article “Creating the Myth” by Linda Seger‚ Seger points out how characters from any story usually follow a certain pattern‚ called archetypes. Analyzing a fairy tale‚ I decided to choose “Cinderella”. It is evident that many characters in “Cinderella” followed a traditional archetype. The main character‚ Cinderella‚ can be fit into three different archetypes: innocent‚ damsel in distress‚ and an outcast. Cinderella can be classified as an innocent because she has never done wrong to anyone
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The book‚ The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ was always thought to be a child’s tale‚ a “modernized fairy tale” until Henry M. Littlefield wrote an article about how The Wizard of Oz was actually an allegory for the Populist era. Littlefield believed that each character and significant place in the book correlated with a person or place in the Populist era. L. Frank Baum wrote this children’s book as a political allegory‚ whether he intentionally did it we are not sure. However‚ the unwavering proof that
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There are many types of stories. Of these stories‚ there are over 900 versions of Cinderella. But in this essay‚ I will only be talking about four of them. I will compare‚ contrast‚ and conclude those four versions called‚ “Yeh-Shen”‚ “The Algonquin Cinderella”‚ “Aschenputtel”‚ and “Interview” in this essay. One thing you probably didn’t know‚ is that these three stories are very old‚ which is something they all have in common. They also all have an element of magic. For example‚ Aschenputtel had
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