Essays on Fairy

Having rediscovered the traditional German fairy-tale about Snow White and the wicked queen, Neil Gaiman introduces a perspective, quite different from others previously expressed. In his story Snow, Glass, Apples Snow White and the queen appear in different colors. They are both strong, and they both appear to implement their powers in their own ways. In the story, Neil Gaiman seems to present both female characters from different perspectives, enduing them with both traditional and feminist traits of their personalities. The entire story by Gaiman seems to be a feminist interpretation of the traditional German fairy-tale by Grimm brothers. ...

According to Andersen and Taylor (2008), "through gender socialization, men and women learn the expectations associated with their sex" (305). Speaking from the perspective of my own upbringing, I consider play, clothes, fairy tales, schooling and mass media to be the major socializing agents in my childhood. Obviously, the fundamental source of this process are parents, who encourage children to play with particular toys, choose clothes that they consider to be appropriate for their children, and educate children by means of fairy tales. Speaking within the context of toys, as on the fundamental socializing agents, the first thing that ...

Introduction

Sociology and gender studies are both expansive subject areas. In this paper, the author aims to identify and examine the existence of gender stereotyping in some famous works of literature, notably fairytales. This paper is a research proposal that outlines the research problems that the author hopes to identify, a contextualized background of the study (i.e. gender stereotyping in fairytales), a review of relevant literatures (focusing on some of the well-known fairytales that may contain evidences of gender stereotyping, a discussion about and the objectives and methods that will be used in the actual research paper. Gender stereotyping is ...

INTRODUCTION

Everyone remembers stories beginning with “once upon a time” and ending in “happily ever after.” Some people see fairytales as antiquated ideologies that are not beneficial in the modern era. Others believe that they are harmless tales intended to spark children’s imagination. Fairytales can establish ideologies about good and evil and right and wrong. They are, also, filled with pointed gender role ideals and gender stereotypes that are, today, ethically questionable. In the last few decades, there has been a literary movement of taking classic fairytales and attempting to update them and eliminate many stereotypes. This leads to ...

Fantasy is fiction that is often set in an imaginary universe. Characters exhibit behavior that is out of the ordinary as seen in A Midsummer night’s Dream by William Shakespeare and also Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. The two exhibits a child and young lovers get into a fairy tale kind- of life. They transition into a mundane world, they take part in the activities of the magical world that are away from reality and most often the reader gets immersed in it too. The constructed world moves from the conscious and subconscious and vice ...

The article by Maria Tatar goes on to delve deep into the complexities of the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. The author of the piece engages in tracing the history of the fairy tale. She opines that there have been many interpolations and transformations in the narrative and content of the story based on cultural difference and timeline in history of literature. To substantiate her point, Tatar cites the versions of the fairy tale popularized in Germany, Indonesia, Japan and some other countries where the stepsisters of the central female character of the fairy tale meet very grave destinies by ...

For the purposes of this term paper it was decided to analyze factors affecting marketing strategy of the European brand "Fairy Dragons" that manufactures souvenirs and toys. The fabulous legend about dragon's family that has magical powers and help people was formulated for the promotion of the brand. The brand name clearly relates to the main heroes of that legend - thereby the brand's mission is much broader than the mission of usual souvenir manufacturers. "Fairy Dragons" has taken on additional psychological meaning for the consumer. The brand is presented in retail places near European must sees visited by ...

Fairy tales and folklores are nothing but the reflections of the society. Authors and artists depict the world through their lens to highlight social elements. The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter is a fairy tale built on the theme of the Little Red Riding Hood. In a very subtle way it depicts the patriarchal structure of the society and what it means to be a liberated woman. In an interesting way she has shown what a feminist means, as it brings harmony and order into an otherwise sexist and chaotic society. Carter’s Company of Wolves might not ...

Across his journey of fifty years as an artist, Pinkney has succeeded in viewing the world from a different and better perspective and coming up with outstanding images that reveal his love for life, race, community and culture. His works of art offer a significant proof that good acts, no matter how minute are never a waste when displayed in beautiful images (Llanas 45). Initially created for product advertisements, greeting cards, covers and pages of periodicals, postage stamps and well-travelled historic sites, Jerry’s have also been displayed in more than one hundred illustrated books. One of the most ...

INTRODUCTION

There are very few children who grew up in the 1990s who does not remember watching Disney’s “Aladdin.” They remember the image of endless sand dunes, hidden caverns, flying carpets, a beautiful princess, a handsome hero and, of course, a big blue genie. Disney’s Aladdin garnered a great deal of praise and theatrical success. “Aladdin,” unlike previous Disney animated features, where the characters and stories were in some fictitious worlds and kingdoms, “Aladdin” was going to bring to life elements of a real world location. “Aladdin” takes place in the Arabian Desert. Brining this story to life, ...

“The Little Mermaid,” the 1989 animated film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and released by Buena Vista Pictures, delves on the story of a mermaid who falls in love with a human being. This film is likewise a cartoon adaptation of the original version of the novel of the same title written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837. With regards to the Disney version, it is observable that the film incorporates several techniques that seem to diminish the innate animalistic nature of the aquatic creatures, such as the crabs, lobsters, octopus, the tropical fish, ...

Key Terms, Meanings, & Example from “Once upon a Time”

Feral children Neglected children Anti-social behavior Receives brought up in an imaginary world Example: Henry from Once upon a time is a perfect example as he was adopted by Evil Queen Regina Mills Looking glass self The way someone see oneself from the perception of others Example: Henry got to realize that he is the only one who is not a character of Storybrooke. Play stage Pretend to be another person Example: After realization Henry keep behaving as a character of Storybrooke to make others feel that he is from them. Game stage Organized game Example: Henry plays his ...

Parallel Worlds in “Bridge to Terabithia”

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson is the story of two children, adolescents, who came up with their own, fantastic country, hiding from the world that does not accept and understand them. This book is about life and death, about the fragility of life and the way of life, about that how hard to find friends, and that people should forgive even enemies. It is sad, but incredibly touching story of friendship, loyalty and love, the first mistakes and incorrigible consequences that children faced living in parallel worlds. Bridge to Terabithia is a story about the friendship of two ...

An analysis of the problems associated with the word "Troll" require a study of the words etymology in relation to its origin and the way in which it has evolved and developed throughout the years. An analysis of the research available on the etymology of the word suggests Scandinavian origins that can be traced deep into the Scandinavian folklores. The word "troll" is, therefore, quite ancient as well as complex and contradictory in nature. The various Scandinavian countries identify trolls as mythological creatures in their literary cultures. However, trolls do differ in their nature from the various countries, meaning ...

Angela Carter prominently retells the fairy tale story of Little Red Riding Hood, with more vivid and gruesome details as to the horrors of monstrosity. In The Company of Wolves, she first describes in detail the attitudes and machinations of wolves, providing examples using the concept of a werewolf compared to the anthropomorphized wolf in the original tale. Through Carter’s retelling, she envisions a tale of love that more closely resembles what could have happened in reality. Through this, the dichotomy of humanity and monstrosity is blurred when both exhibit traits that are supposedly exclusive of the other. ...

Identifying the main problematics of the word "troll requires recalling its etymology, i.e. the very first time when it was used and its transformation over the centuries. An accurate analysis of the specific sources suggests that this word is quite ancient, multi-valued, and most notably, very contradictory. The word has Scandinavian roots and its etymology goes deep into folklore. The word "troll" has a direct relationship with nature because trolls, as mythological creatures, represent nature. On this basis, one can say that trolls from Denmark differ from trolls in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Despite the fact that the geographical ...

Fairy tales lure children with their simple and easy to understand style and magic in the story.

The common character in any fairy tale is an imaginary being with magical powers. For Example, in “the Cinderella” story, the protagonist, Cinderella gets gold dress and jewelry out of the blue from the fairy godmother in one version or the tree near her mother’s grave in another version of the story. These supernatural powers do not represent the real world. Inculcating this false view of the world through fictional fantasy in children, who are very impressionable in the young ages, causes insidious harm to them. Instead of fostering spirit of scientific thinking, they are doing the exact ...

Aladdin is a classic Arabian fairy tale that was used as a basis for many movies and cartoons. The main character of the story is a poor young man who achieves the princess and other rewards with the aid of magical powers and own personality. Writers from many countries used similar plots. For example, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen used such characters and situations in his tales The Tinder-box and The Flying Trunk. Stories have many differences, like author, length or plot, but there is always one similarity – focus on main characters. The screen adaptation of the fairy tale ...

Romanticism. Introduction. As many got tired of regularity and rationality of Classicism, people of art started to try to find a way to express their emotions and attitudes through methods more free from canons. They found such possibility in Romanticism. Romanticism replaces the Age of Enlightenment, and coincided with the industrial revolution, that was marked by the advent of the steam engine, locomotive, ship, photos, and factory suburbs. While education was characterized by the cult of reason, and was based on its principles of civilization, romanticism advocated the cult of nature, senses and all the natural in man. It ...

Creative Writing on Toni Morrison’s Novel Song of Salomon Chapter 1 Pages 41-44

A Fairy tale: “A Brown Piece of Paper”. Once upon a time there lived a man whose name was Macon Dead. He was a very unusual man for he named all his children, except for the first-born male, by thumbing at random in the Bible. His wife died giving birth to their daughter and a poor man was confused and devastated by his loss. But a girl needed a name. So broken-hearted father took a Bible, and, as he could not read, chose a group of letters that seemed to him strong and handsome: he imagined that it was ...

La Jetée (1962) is a short science fiction film by Chris Marker. It is twenty-eight minutes long, totally in black and white, and it is comprised of a series of photos. The film describes a post-war experiment using time travel from the past to the future and vice versa in post-apocalyptic France. The director uses time travel by employing two techniques: the power of memory through a fairy tale’s illusion and the effect of photography. Like ‘Snow White’ and ‘Briar Rose’, La Jetée is a fairy tale, a political fairytale. It begins with a story of ...

Most often, Fairy tales contribute to the cultural stability in the society by creating and implementing certain perceptions and ideas regarding the ideal behavior specified for women. In most of the fairy tales the women possess certain virtues which include the core notions of passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the males. It can be stated that women are portrayed to fulfill the needs of the male figures in the society. It is a regrettable fact to note that women characters from fairy tales always depend on the males for seeking any material possession in their lives. ...

Most often, the Fairy tales contribute to the cultural stability in the society by creating and implementing certain perceptions and ideas regarding the ideal behavior specified for women. In most of the fairy tales the women possess certain virtues which include the core notions of passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the males. It can be stated the portrayed role of women is supposed to fulfill the needs of the male figures in the society. It is a regrettable fact to note that women characters from fairy tales always depend on the males for seeking any material ...

The May Fourth Movement and Chinese Literature

China has a long and rich history that stretches over several centuries. Part of that history, naturally, is a rich cultural history that includes a fine literary tradition. Unfortunately, most of that literary tradition is not well known to the West. Modern Chinese literature, that which is popular in the Western world, developed as a result of the cultural revolution that began with the May Fourth Movement. The May Fourth Movement was part of a cultural and political revolution in China that led to the birth of a new intellectual class in China as well as an opening up ...

The short fiction work of turn-of-the-century author Kate Chopin regularly deals with the recurring themes of womanhood, agency and identity, usually telling stories of women trapped in stifling lives due to the patriarchal expectations placed on them to live a certain way. Through these explorations of gender roles, particularly through marriage and motherhood, Chopin uses these central themes to explore the imbalances found between men and women in terms of power and agency. At all turns, the protagonists of Chopin’s stories must make unconventional, taboo decisions to reject the white, male-dominated judgments and expectations placed on them. Two ...

Most often, the Fairy tales contribute to the cultural stability in the society by creating and implementing certain perceptions and ideas regarding the ideal behavior specified for women. In most of the fairy tales the women possess certain virtues which include the core notions of passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the males. It can be stated the portrayed role of women is supposed to fulfill the needs of the male figures in the society. It is a regrettable fact to note that women characters from fairy tales always depend on the males for seeking any material ...

Love is a wonderful feeling, an experience that a human being cannot resist. The song entitled “Stereo Hearts” is a song full of questions, yet, it brings assurance to the one he or she loves. The writer is apparently inspired and adored someone whom he offers and expresses his or her love through his or her music and willing to give everything. A true love knows no boundary, willing to apologize, forgives, and forever protects a special someone. Both the figurative language from the lyrics of the song that says “My heart’s a stereo” (a metaphor) and “Hear ...

Guillermo Del Toro’s Spanish horror-fantasy film The Devil’s Backbone is a unique ghost story for its time, given the film’s setting during the Spanish Civil War and the morally ambiguous nature of the ghosts found in the film. In telling the story of a small orphanage in rural Spain in the early 1930s, haunted by a small boy named Santi whose death provides one of the central mysteries, The Devil’s Backbone mixes the high fantasy of fairy tales with the gritty despair of one of Spain’s most tumultuous historical periods. As evidenced in the ...

Fairy tales contributes to cultural stability in the society since they implement certain perceptions and ideas of how women are supposed to behave. In most fairy tales, women possess certain virtues which include passivity dependency and self-sacrifice. The role of women is to fulfill the needs of the male figures. It is regrettably to note that women from fairy tales always depends on a man for material possession. The male figure is perceived as a superior being responsible for making decisions in a family setup while the woman is expected to submit to her husband. Since I was a ...

Thomas Nast

Thomas Nast was born in Germany in 1840, and he moved to the United States at the age of six. Initially he used to do illustrations to support his family that was going through acute financial crisis. Nast started his work as an illustrator when he was 15. At that time he was working as an illustrator for a magazine called Leslie’s Weekly New. His earning was $4 a week. In the year1862, during Civil War, he took a job of a war reporter in Harper’s Weekly Magazine.

Thomas Nast stereotypes the Irish as

unmixable in America's melting pot. 1889 For reporting the ...

Fairytales play an important role in the formation of personality in childhood. Knowing this, most parents read stories to their children. In fact, every fairy tale has a moral lesson that is presented in the form of a narrative. And children, by reading stories, automatically learn certain truths. However, some fairy tales might be more than instructive stories. Sometimes they can have quite ambiguous subtext. This paper analyzes the fairy tale "Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Probably everyone used to read this story as a child. It seemed that everything is clear in it. This paper presents a ...

Insrtuctor’s Name

It is truth universally acknowledged that the theme of the human’s choice has always been popular with the poets and writers. It is not surprising that Robert Frost, an iconic American poet, addresses it in his most famous and most quoted poem, The Road not Taken (“The Norton Anthology of Poetry” 1232-1233). In spite of the widely spread opinion that the poem raises the problem of “being an individual” or “taking a different road from the masses” (Fagan 293), I strongly believe that the poet’s major intention is to emphasize that no matter what choice we make ...

Sponsored by the State University of New York, the stylistic Museum at the Fashion Institute Technology, also known as Museum at FIT organized an online exhibit called Fairy Tale Fashion which began in the 15th of January continuing up to the 16th day of April 2016. Featured in this collection are the post-modern renditions of some of the well-loved classical fairy tale outfits of the past. The title of the online exhibit might evoke a more grandiose display of Baroque style to medieval princess garbs full of frills, bows, shirrings made out of fancy silks. But upon viewing the ...

Introduction pp.3-4

Bella and Luke – Chapter 1: Bella p.5 Bella and Luke – Chapter 2: Luke p.6 Bella and Luke – Chapter 3: Bella and Luke pp.7-9 Explanation of plot summary and choices pp.10-12 Introduction For this assignment I have chosen topic number 2; “Write your own version of the Cinderella story, structuring your re-telling around the element(s) of the story that seem most significant or interesting to you. You can tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters or use third person narration. Think carefully about what specific aspects of the story you decide to emphasise ...

With a sophisticated yet obviously distinguishable flavor of absurd, the play Woyzeck by Georg Büchner features a deeply philosophical worldview of the man that was openly rejected by the society. Franz Woyzcek, apart from being the main character and driving force of the plot of the play, stands out to symbolize controversy and peculiarity of human nature, which is most vividly embodied in his unstable psychic condition and stormy social behavior. On the whole, the play is given the perspective of depicting Woyzeck’s social and family life, with each of the scenes contributing to the thematic growth ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is common knowledge that every well-educated person should know, understand and appreciate music. However, no matter how well aware of various composers and genres people might be, many of us find it difficult to feel it. There are numerous examples of musicians who can technically perform a piece, but when you listen to them playing, you realize that you might as well listen to a robot. Only the emotion behind the melody gives music a truly human feel and makes it a universal human language that will be understood all over the world. Thus, it is extremely important ...

Love- A feeling, a word and a sensation that has made people laugh, cry , kill, poets write realms of poetry, scientists try and understand what it is all about and many others wish for it. There are different kinds of love- the love a mother has for her child, the love a father shows his children, love for friends, pets and then there is romantic love. Of the above, perhaps it is romantic love that has been the most written about and vilified. Love is also a state of being that makes a person experience different emotions at the ...

Fairytales play an important role in the formation of personality in childhood. Knowing this, most parents read stories to their children. In fact, every fairy tale has a moral lesson that is presented in the form of a narrative. And children, by reading stories, automatically learn certain truths. However, some fairy tales might be more than instructive stories. Sometimes they can have quite ambiguous subtext. This paper analyzes the fairy tale "Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Probably everyone used to read this story as a child. It seemed that everything is clear in it. This paper presents a ...

ARTE 480

Midterm Essay In November 18, 1928, Mickey Mouse was presented to the world by Walt Disney, which eventually ruled the popular culture among the younger sector of the global society. In succeeding decades after its conception, the Walt Disney Company did not only create hundreds of cartoon characters, but also brought to the world a seemingly magical kingdom. The animations, characters, resorts, theme parks, and the merchandise owned by Disney have all became part of the popular culture and had become precious memories of every person’s childhood years. In this respect, this paper will discuss Disney as a ...

All great stories have to start somewhere. They gain special shape through different layers of author’s experience. However, they could only become exquisite when they continue living outside of author’s mind. There is no need to prove that the stories depicted in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings received their special lives. In fact, they belong to the popular culture phenomenon that is addressed to many (Hall 1). Not only do they continue living after the death of J.R.R. Tolkien, but they also remain an inspiration for the myriads of other minds in various fields. ...

The Crystal Palace is a massive and very impressive building in London that was constructed from iron and glass in 1851 in Hyde Park in London specially for the Great Exhibition of that year. The Palace received its name from the magazine Punch, in which the playwright Douglas Jerrold called it in 1850 as “a palace of very crystal” . Though the building was very beautiful and seemed to have a promising future, after the end of exhibition the Crystal Palace was taken down and moved to Sydenham Hill, the place not far from London. The building there was kept ...

My Name

In the terms of modern society, the concept of child development tends to be interpreted as a really important one. In fact, that is true, because keeping the child healthy, socialized and ready to future life is the main task of parents. Fairytales is an indispensable attribute of childhood of any person and of any nation or the historical era. The tales are usually read to children from book, but adults often like to compose the story. Consequently, it is fair to claim that a fairytale is both a way of kids’ development and self cognition for adults. The ...

“Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale”

1. According to K. Bernheimer, as fairy tales belong to the realm of classical literature, they are the source of many writing forms and techniques applied by representatives of both mainstream and avant-garde literary movements. Stating that fairy tales connect all people “in the act of living” (Bernheimer 71), she expresses the idea that they influence the way we perceive the world and react to it. These ideas seem to be well-grounded: the four elements mentioned by the author, namely “flatness, abstraction, intuitive logic, and normalized magic” (Bernheimer 64), are indeed found in both realistic and experimental literature, some ...

English

It is no secret that William Shakespeare is one of the greatest poets and playwrights of the world. Virtually every his line of is riddled with melody and meaning. However, there are lines that are particularly touching and memorable. These are lines from the play "Midsummer Night's Dream" in Act III scene II. It is a replica of Puck, who, referring to Oberon, said:

For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there (Shakespeare 38). Perhaps, this is not a place in the play, which is ...

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Joanne K. Rowling is the first book in a series of novels about Harry Potter, a young magician. The book is commonly referred to as children’s literature, though a deeper insight into its plot and symbols used by the author reveals much more essential, even encyclopedic, knowledge about British history and folklore as well as ancient mythology. Something that may initially seem to be just products of Rowling’s imagination turns out to be real things rooted in history and traditions, fairy tales and myth. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’ ...

Fairytales generally offer children a very limited choice of heroes and villains, and they cast men and women in stereotyped roles, because they are meant to socialize children according to the values of the society and according to their expected gender roles. Two feminine characters found in many fairytales are the wicked stepmother and the young and beautiful heroine, who is often a princess. In such fairytales as Grimm brothers’ “Snow White”, “Cinderella” and “Mother Holle”, the stepmother is an intruder who occupies the role of the good mother and persecutes the young, beautiful and kind heroine. She is ...

Magical Realism is way an author or composer tells a story. The story may not be realistic in nature, or the way we visually see it in reality. It is a caption that involves fantasy and magical elements that make it a different environment than real life. The setting in a magical realism story, literature composure, or music may involve things that would not be normal in our everyday life. The story may portray a fairy world where fairy’s live, and travel to other parts of the make believe world. It would not be factual and is considered ...

The point of many movies lies in the fact of illustrating social problems. Global and domestic issues, issues of consciousness and symbolism – all of those aspects are shown in the three movies, which will be discussed in this paper. Avant-garde filmmakers have produced tons of works and it is essential to reveal at least some of them. Powerful experiments with theatrical forms are introduced by Robert Lepage in his masterpiece, called “Le Confessionnal”. He is known as a director of game cinema and released four pictures during eight years in different countries of the world. His unique film "Confessional" ...

All children grow up in the magical world of fairy tales that have been so gripping and inspiring. Most of the legends are about challenges and tough times plus how the main character deals with injustices in their lives. Although the primary motive behind telling those fairy tales is pure entertainment for children, the tales are well known as a literary genre. Thus, there is a lot more to those fairy tales as they have a lot to offer to people of all age groups. The setting of the storyline sis simple in nature and magical. The characters are ...

Comparative Analysis of Grimm Brother’s Bluebeard and Fitcher’s Bird of (1812) to, A Tuscan Bluebeard by Isabella Anderton (1905)

Introduction

The comparative analysis of the fairy tales of Grimm Brother’s Bluebeard and Fitcher’s Bird of (1812) with, A Tuscan Bluebeard by Isabella Anderton, takes a feminist viewpoint. Therefore, the comparative attributes of this essay will be embedded on social issues including; marriage, gender, sex, various accords of violence, relationships, among other lenses that determine the mode and trend of a society. Similarity of these viewpoint mean commonality of the same topic discussed in these book, while ...

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And they lived happily ever after. Several fairy tales that we row up with end up this way. The prince and the princess fall in love with each other as soon as their eyes meet, and soon enough, they find themselves vowing to be together for the rest of their lives. From fairy tales, novels, and movies, we have been exposed to the concept of being attracted and falling in love, and these ideas are almost always believed to be matters of the heart. Often, we think that fate calls our heart and guides as to find ...

An essay exploring the effect of the macroeconomic environment in Italy and Russia as it relates to Proctor and Gamble’s international economic activity. Procter and Gamble [P&G] is the world’s top producer of household products. P&G manufactures a wide range of products from toilet paper and sanitary products to food and cleaners. It can be said that the company produces everything a consumer could need to stock their homes comfortably. June 2014, P&G reported over eighty-three million dollars in revenues during that fiscal year (MarketLine, 2015). P&G’s headquarters are located in Cincinnati, Ohio but the massive ...

Introduction

Mythology or myths in the current American society are associated with outdated and insensible tell-tale stories that do not have a place in the modern scientific world. The mythos are viewed as the tales similar to the ancient fairy tales that were relevant based in the manner of the lives at that time. Many of the Americans argue that the myths have no place in the current American societies and clinging to them would be the most stupid thing to do. However, that assertion could be misleading for the myths form a critical part in the formation of the ...

Analysis / The Disney Cinderella as a modern feminist tale

Disney Cinderella movies are the favorite tale of children all over the world. However, studying the history of these films, it is possible to notice the changes between their gender stereotypes. Each subsequent film depicts an increasingly feminist history of poor Cinderella, who despite everything, continues to believe in a miracle. Charles Perrault's Cinderella was created to represent the post-war America a good poor girl, who with the help of her faith became a rich and happy princess. Unlike all the previous versions of Cinderella, in 2015 the happiness of the contemporary wretched girl depends not only on the ...

Introduction

For two centuries, the creativity of Charles Dickens, a leader who has made an original contribution to world literature, attracted the attention of literary critics and followers. A realist of English Literature Charles Dickens lived and worked during the times of critical realism of the nineteenth century. Works created by English writer have absorbed various topics. In English literature, Charles Dickens was the founder of a new genre - the social novel. In his works we can see different images of the female image. It should be emphasized that the author has not disregarded Victorian women. According to the ...

It is expected that, at one point in our lives, we have read the story of Cinderella or Hamlet or even both. Cinderella is a common bedtime story for children, most especially for the girls, while Hamlet is a favorite subject of literary reading for most students in their literature classes. Due to the popularity of both these stories, they have been adapted in movies and plays for a lot of times already. Different plot variations or twists have also been already made to both stories to adapt to the ever changing audience considering that these stories have already ...

Rationale

The Climate Change has been a hot issue since the end of the 20th Century. After several United Nations Conference on Environment and Development; governments signed a protocol in Kyoto, Japan that marked their commitments in saving the environment. The commitment is popularly known as the Kyoto Protocol. An article (UNFCCC, 2012) explains that the Kyoto Protocol binds the countries to reduce their carbon emissions and penalized violators thereof. Also, it was in this protocol that benchmarked the market-based mechanism on carbon trading that will offset the too much green house gases emission of a certain country.

After almost two decades ...

Introduction

This argumentative essay utilizes the mechanism of intertextuality to analyze three different English classics namely: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868-69); R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883) and Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902). Intertextuality establishes the relationships between different texts, here ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’, compared how the reader was influenced by the depiction of pictures as an additional methodology. Little Women and Treasure Island targeted specific genders and age groups. This essay seeks to establish connections or influence between these different books.

Discussion

Intertextuality enables the establishment of relationships between texts. Such can ...

Introduction

Archetypes are original models in which other similar things are patterned or copied upon. It could also be used to mean a symbolic imagery which is derived from the past collective experience. Archetypes can be used for illuminating personality and literature. They are important to both the ancient mythology and modern narratives. (Fiero, 2010)

Freud’s personal unconscious theory states that ‘personal experiences have been forgotten but still linger in the personal unconscious mind and has some form of control in our behavior. (Kalsched, 1996)

Jung on the other hand believed that a collection of experiences and memories of ...

Victim and villain is a concept that is largely dependent on a societal view and understanding that is sourced from a common social practice. The image created by the society members is what is taken to represent the true villain and victim of a situation or occurrence, in this case a crime. The ideas and knowledge built up and shaped by the society’s tales, beliefs, and perception is what is used in the judging of a person and understanding their criminal deeds. There are many issues and aspects that fall into play while victim/villain concepts are being explained and decided by upon ...