Tales
In the 17th century, fairy tales were miles apart from the versions we read and watch today. Endings would not always be as happy as we know them to be and there were far more complications, perversity and brutalities. For instance, in Sleeping Beauty, the girl is not kissed and awakened by her prince; rather, he rapes her and makes her pregnant while she is still unconscious. I plan on bring all of these elements into my fairytale. Back then, these tales had a lot of mythology and hidden meanings which is why I have chosen the number three to be common throughout my tale. Three children will be born, and will be placed in a bed of iris flowers. The iris flower is special that it has three petals, and each petal represents courage, wisdom and faithfulness. I will be build a connection to the children and the…...

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References

Ashliman, D.L. Folk and fairy tales, a handbook. Greenwood Pub Group, 2004.

Rosinsky, Natalie. Write Your Own Fairy Tale. Compass Point Books, 2007.

Tressider, Jack. Symbols And their Meanings: The Illustrated Guide to More Than 1,000

Symbols -- Their Traditional and Contemporary Significance. Michael Friedman

Media presentations of justified violencemay also change the belief that violent behavior is wrong, encouraging the development of pro-violence attitudes. […] Violence is acceptable because it is not real, therefore "victims" do not really suffer (Funk et al. 26).
Given this serious -- and well-documented -- consequence of even imaginary violence, writers and readers of fairy tales should exercise care that their depictions of violence are truly relevant to the moralistic issues at stake. The "blood in the shoe" must be justified; otherwise, it simply desensitizes the (often juvenile) reader to no real advantage.

orks Cited

Anderson, Craig a., Leonard Berkowitz, Edward Donnerstein, L. Rowell Huesmann, James D. Johnson, Daniel Linz, Neil M. Malamuth, and Ellen artella. "The Influence of Media Violence on Youth." Psychological Science in the Public Interest 4.3 (2003): 81-110. Print.

Bascom, illiam. "Cinderella in Africa." Cinderella: A Casebook. Ed. Alan Dundes. Madison, I: University of isconsin Press, 1982. Print.

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Works Cited

Anderson, Craig a., Leonard Berkowitz, Edward Donnerstein, L. Rowell Huesmann, James D. Johnson, Daniel Linz, Neil M. Malamuth, and Ellen Wartella. "The Influence of Media Violence on Youth." Psychological Science in the Public Interest 4.3 (2003): 81-110. Print.

Bascom, William. "Cinderella in Africa." Cinderella: A Casebook. Ed. Alan Dundes. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982. Print.

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Alfred a. Knopf, 1977. Print.

Funk, Jeanne B., Heidi Bechtoldt Baldacci, Tracie Pasold, and Jennifer Baumgardner. "Violence Exposure in Real Life, Videogames, Television, Movies, and the Internet: Is There Desensitization?" Journal of Adolescence 27 (2004): 23-39. Print.

popular culture is relatively young and new in modern society. Sociologists and psychologists began to pay attention to it only at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth. Popular culture is a set of values, customs and system of beliefs which are common for people of different financial, class and gender background, so that it forms a wide group of people which goes over the limits of one country who share common cultural beliefs and norms. Person begins to perceive popular culture since early childhood through education and fairy tales read by his parents, which are used to form a system of believes and values on the hand with stereotypes on unconscious level and even later most of popular culture attributes are perceived as fairy tales on unconscious level and are taken for granted like social myths that form sets of beliefs nearly…...

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References:

1. Ionia and Peter Opie, eds., The Classic Fairy Tales Oxford University Press, (1980). pp. 182-83.

2. Dubino, Jeanne. The Cinderella Complex: Romance Fiction, Patriarchy and Capitalism, Journal of Popular Culture 27 (1993): 103-18. Proquest Direct. 19 May 1999 .

3. Paul, Lissa. The Politics of Dirt: Or Mucking About with Piggybook, Harry the Dirty Dog, and 'Cinderella The Horn Book Magazine Sep.-Oct. 1997: 534-42. Proquest Direct. 19 May 1999 .

4. Kolbenschlag, Madonna. Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye: Breaking the Spell of Feminine Myths and Models. 1979. Toronto: Bantam, 1981.

Dis-missal of the great French fairy tale writers from the palace of King Louis XIV help revolutionize the literary French fairy tales?
French fairytales and literature are indeed a topic that is worth discussing. This is because the work compiled by the French writers, back in the 17th and 18th century is still part of the English as well as French literature. Nowadays, the term fairy tale is used by many people to refer to the magical stories that are told to small children. This word has actually been derived from the French term "Conte de Fees," which was a label given to a couple of tales written for adults in the 17th century (Windling).

Many people are not aware of the fact that even the magical stories that are told to children today, Sleeping eauty, The White Deer, Donkeyskin and Cinderella (to name a few), are in fact adaptations from the…...

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Bibliography

Adam, Antoine. Histoire de la litterature francaise au XVIIe siecle. First published 1954-56. 3 vols. Paris: Albin Michel, 1997. Print.

Ashley, Maurice P. Louis XIV And The Greatness Of France. 1965.

Backer, Dorothy. Precious Women: A Feminist Phenomenon in the Age of Louis XIV. New York:

Basic Books, 1974.

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Despite their differences, these versions do also have aspects in common. In each tale, it is true love which saves Sleeping Beauty from her slumber. After she is revived, she marries her prince charming and lives "happily ever after." All three versions also tell of Sleeping Beauty as the long awaited only child of a loving king. In the "Sun, Moon, and Talia" as well as the alt Disney version, Sleeping Beauty is sixteen when she falls into her slumber. These similarities show the importance of certain social conceptions concerning patience and the value of true love.

Resources for Further Reading

Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment. Penguin Psychology. 1991.

A new look at classic Fairy Tales, Bettelheim explores these tales and how the educate and liberate the minds of children everywhere. This work looks at the hidden psychology found within many commonly known fairy tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" as well as…...

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Works Cited

Basile, Giambattista. "Sun, Moon, and Talia." Found at Pittsburgh University Website on November 23, 2007 at  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html#basile 

Grimm Brothers. "Little Brier-Rose." Found at Pittsburgh University Website on November 23, 2007 at  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html#grimm 

Geis, Darlene ed. Walt Disney's Treasury of Children's Classics. Harry N. Abrams Inc.

Publishing. 1978.

Sexuality in Specific Fairy Tales Analysis
The issue of sexuality in Disney cartoons has been controversial for a long time. The present paper has the purpose of describing and analyzing the specific sexuality in three Disney stories. These are: Little Red Riding Hood, eauty and the east, the Little Mermaid.

It is true that adults watch cartoons as well, but the main target is represented by children. For them cartoons- filmic realizations of fairy tales- are full of truths. From this point-of-view it can be considered that fairy tales teach young children a lot of things, influencing their values as future adults. Their importance is more than obvious. The most famous cartoons include girls and boys as main characters. It is normal for them to be using stereotypes, but to what extent can the gender stereotypes become harmful? Let us take a look at three Disney cartoons representing three universally famous fairy…...

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Bibliography:

Cranny, F. 1992. Engendered fiction: analysing gender in the production and the reception of the texts, University of New South Wales Press, Australia

Meyers, R.W. 2001. The Little mermaid: Hans Christian Andersen's Feminine Identification. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, vol. 3, no. 2

Mintz, T. 1969/1970 .The meaning of the rose in Beauty and the Beast. Psychoanalytic Electronic Review

Preston, C.L. 2004. Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: sex, morality and the evolution of a fairy tale. Marvels and Tales, volume 18, number 1, pp. 132-136

Tales Are Not Just Children's Play -- The Importance Of Folklore In College Education
Although fairy tales are often considered to simply exist as palatable and easy to understand tales for children, this has more to do with the modern legacy of Disney cartoons than the actual genealogy of this literary tradition of oral narrative. In fact these stories did not originate as tales to ensure that young people behaved in a proper and decorous manner. Rather they are quite literally, tales of the common folk (hence 'folktales' or 'fairy tales') and populace. These tales provide snapshots of common cultural values particular to a people and to a cultural tradition. The Brothers Grimm quite explicitly attempted to catalogue oral narratives of their native, rural Germany, providing a bloody chronicle of the sociological values and assumptions of this heritage. Even though Hans Christian Anderson attempted to construct his stories more obviously…...

Disguise in Fairy Tales Deceit is the purpose of disguise, whether it is well-meaning or not. Cinderella dons the disguise of a beautiful princess to win the heart, mind and affections of the handsome prince. The wolf in Grimm’s “Red Riding Hood” dons the disguise of Red Riding Hood’s grandmother in order to eat the girl after he has already eaten the grandmother. In The Ballad of Mulan, the girl dons the disguise of a man to fight in the Chinese Army. In all three cases, disguise is used to deceive, though the intention would not seem to be malicious in every case. However, in Anne Sexton’s modern re-telling of Cinderella, there is a hint of outlandishness about the Cinderella tale that gives the story an ironic and satirical ending: the prince and Cinderella live happily ever after because they stay eternally youthful, never have to deal with children or dust…...

Holes by Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar makes this fantasy story seem realistic by the way he intertwines the elements of fantasy or supernatural, with the everyday things that are going on. The story opens with a description of Camp Green Lake, a very brief glimpse in to why anyone would go to a lake where there is no lake and moves to Stanley's arrival at the camp. The more or less mundane discussion of Stanley's problems in school, his problems with the bully, his arrest and conviction of a crime he didn't commit, and the constant failure of his father's experimenting create an atmosphere of a gritty realism. Then, in the midst of this, Stanley begins thinking about his, "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-great-grandfather." It is, a family joke. "henever something went wrong, they always blamed Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-great-grandfather.

Then the realism starts being bent. Stanley meets Mr. Sir. He gets his "camp clothes." He learns…...

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Works Cited

Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone New York: Scholastic, 1997

Sachar, Louis. Holes New York: Dell Yearling, 1998

Carroll / Burnett
ithin the English canon of literary fairy-tales -- what German literary critics would refer to as a "marchen," or a conscious attempt to write imaginative literature, with some level of artistry, for children -- both The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Alice's Adventures in onderland by Lewis Carroll seem to have withstood the test of time, and attained a level of canonicity. Yet to call these books mere fairy tales -- no matter how literary -- is to underestimate the influence that adult literary genres have upon the composition of children's classics. The simple fact is that, although the Alice and The Secret Garden are obviously children's books with child protagonists, each one manages to take a genre more obviously intended for adult readers and try to make it viable for young readers. In the case of The Secret Garden, the books affinities to Gothic are…...

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Works Cited

Bloom, Harold. Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea House, 2006. Print.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1911. Print.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Edited by Florence Milner. New York: Rand-McNally, 1917. Print.

The three girls identified with the Disney princesses. My youngest sister was Princess Aurora of the Sleeping Beauty, and displayed being playful and an animal lover, seen as playing with imaginary animals that included birds and mouse, dogs and cats. My other sister played the character of Snow White who was very accommodating and seemed to be the one sweeping around their "house." The third girl, a neighbor, was Cinderella who was also "helping" with the household chores. The boys on the side were playing fighting swords and was shouting and grunting. They also appear to be all around the place. As the afternoon progresses, the girls engaged in quiet and organized play, while the boys shifted from heroes to villains, as long as there is active play involved.
These portrayals of characters as played by the children show how models affect their behavior and gender roles. This is not…...

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Resources:

The Developmental Psychology of Erik Erikson." Educational psychology for teachers.. March 21,2008  http://www.rlc.dcccd.edu/MATHSCI/anth/P101/DVLMENTL/ERIKSON.HTM .

Von Wagner, Kendra. "Child Development Theories." March 21, 2008  http://psychology.about.com/od/developmentalpsychology/a/childdevtheory.htm .

Von Wagner, Kendra. "Introduction to Theories of Development." March 21, 2008  http://psychology.about.com/od/developmentecourse/a/dev_types.htm .

Magic beings in fairy tales [...] importance of magic beings and fairies in fairy tales. Today, fairies are a popular form of fantasy that comes to life in a variety of way. One of the most traditional homes for fairies and other magical beings are fairy tales, created for children but loved by all ages. Some of the most beloved fairy tales contain fairies and magical beings that are central to the plot, the moral, and the essence of the stories. Without fairies and other magical beings, these tales would lose their magic, and their universal appeal.
Fairies are magical beings that inhabit many of the world's most famous fairy tales. Children old and young are familiar with many of these tales from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty and beyond. Fairies and magical beings are part of what make these fairy tales so delightful and so memorable. Not all fairies are…...

grand cycle is never ending. The series of creation, existence, and destruction, from the first moments of the big bang, to the empty, icy death of the universe never stops. Just like a circle with no end or beginning, the universe spreads and collapses, condenses and ignites repeatedly. How many universes exist and whether or not they interact or fuel each other is unknown. What is known is a universe exists as one single drop in a sea of many. Your thoughts, your actions, they all have potential to birth a TW world, a dream, an existence.
Such a being created this universe and its name is Luma. The god Luma, born during the process of cycles, came to create light in its TW world and took the form of a young woman, colorless, with eyes of stars and hair of comet trails. She used the light of fire and…...

Boy, Snow, Bird, and BlancanievesThe endings of both Boy, Snow, Bird and Blancanieves share a similar sense of ambiguity and equivocation that ties back to the themes and motifs of the Snow White story.In the Snow White story, the ending is usually portrayed as a clear victory of good over evil, with Snow White being saved by the prince's kiss and the wicked queen getting her comeuppance. However, both Boy, Snow, Bird and Blancanieves subvert this traditional ending by introducing complexities and ambiguities that leave the reader/viewer with unanswered questions.In Boy, Snow, Bird, the titular character must come to terms with her own complicity in perpetuating systems of racism and prejudice, and the ending suggests that there may be no clear solution or redemption for her (Oyeyemi, 2014). Similarly, in Blancanieves, the ending is left open to interpretation, with the fate of the main character unclear and the themes of…...

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References

Deveny, T. (2016). Blancanieves: a Film Adaptation of “Snow White” with a Spanish Twist. Marvels & Tales, 30(2), 328-354.

Latorre, J. (2014). Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves and Modern Spain. Retrieved from  http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2014/feature-articles/pablo-bergers-blancanieves-and-modern-spain/ 

Oyeyemi, H. (2014). Boy, Snow, Bird. Picador.

Eventually, she rejects the child entirely, telling her husband that she cannot see the child anymore. Moreover, she is not content to withhold her own love and affection from the child. On the contrary, when her husband employs a babysitter, the mother is threatened by the girl's competence and makes the father fire her. In this way, she absolutely fulfills the fairytale elements of the evil maternal figure, playing a role that is traditionally filled by stepmothers in these stories. Not only does she refuse to love her child, which could be explained away by the character's obvious struggle with mental illness, but she takes knowing and intentional actions to make sure that her son is deprived of any type of maternal love.
The finally fairytale theme present in "A Sorrowful oman" is that of the rescuing male. The husband in the story is portrayed as actively compassionate. He sends…...

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Works Cited

Goodwin, Gail. "A Sorrowful Woman." Tom Bacig's Home Page. 1997. University of Minnesota Duluth. 22 Feb. 2009  http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/tbacig/hmcl1007/1007anth/ggodwin.html .

The Cinderella fairy tale is one that is familiar to most readers.  However, there are several different versions of this fairy tale.  While the Grimm Brothers are credited with creating many modern fairy tales, this is inaccurate.  Rather than create the fairy tales, they simply wrote down fairy tales as they existed.  Two familiar stories telling the same tale are Cinderella by Charles Perrault and Ashputtle by the Grimm Brothers.  While they are telling similar tales, there are some significant differences in these two stories.

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Here are a few ideas for compare and contrast essay topics that you could consider:

1. Compare and contrast the portrayal of gender roles in traditional fairy tales with modern-day children's literature.
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4. Compare and contrast the environmental impact of electric cars versus traditional gasoline-powered cars.
5. Compare and contrast the healthcare systems of two different countries.
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The Comforting Embrace of Cinematic Escapism: A Curated Guide to the Perfect Weekend Film

As the sun dips below the horizon, casting long shadows across the cityscape, the allure of a cozy night in beckons. What better way to unwind and recharge than to immerse oneself in the captivating world of film? Whether you're seeking heartwarming tales, thrilling adventures, or thought-provoking dramas, there's a cinematic haven waiting to transport you to distant realms and evoke profound emotions.

In this guide, we embark on a curated journey to uncover the best weekend films that will provide the perfect cinematic backdrop for a night....

Taylor Swift's Incorporation of Folklore and Mythology into Her Music and Storytelling

Throughout her illustrious career, Taylor Swift has deftly interwoven folklore and mythological elements into her music and storytelling, crafting a captivating tapestry that transcends the boundaries of mere entertainment. By seamlessly integrating ancient legends, archetypes, and symbols with her own personal experiences, she has created a rich and ethereal world that resonates deeply with her devoted fans.

Folkloric Influences

Swift's eighth studio album, "folklore," released in 2020, marked a significant shift towards incorporating folklore. The album's title itself evokes the oral tradition of storytelling, passed down through generations. Songs like "Cardigan"....