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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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    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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    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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    Jane Eyre: A Fairy Tale? If there’s one thing that Charlotte Bronte could not be accused of‚ it is writing a simple romance novel. Jane Eyre is by all accounts a novel of love‚ but also a novel of personal growth‚ of pain‚ of things above human comprehension‚ and of happiness. Bronte intimately acquaints her readers with Jane Eyre‚ and gets us to love Jane despite all the obstacles she has to face .In keeping with the heart of the bildungsroman novel‚ Bronte lets us see not just the good times in

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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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    cavite Rapunzel (STORY ANALYSIS) Submitted by: Christopher S. Manalo Christopher glenn M. mendoza Submitted to: Mr. Leo Marko F. Azucenas August 16‚2013 Assessment/findings:THESIS STATEMENT A. Type of work: German Fairy Tale B. Title: Rapunzel C. Author: Brothers Grimm D. Main point of the Paper/analysis: Rapunzel. The witch‚ the parents‚ and the prince are the only characters besides Rapunzel and none of them have names. E. Genre/ Date

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    women’s roles have changed but‚ no one seems to notice they have also changed our fairy tales. Over the years fairy tales have evolved making women play many roles‚ some submissive others assertive; the females in Little Snow-White and Beauty and The Beast portray these roles as reflections of the times in which they were created. Written in the 1800’s Little Snow-White personifies the submissive roles assigned to women at the time. In this time period being a housewife is typical and expected of a

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    Are women viewed as equals in the Tales From Ovid or are they no more than objects? Some argue that Ovid shows a sympathetic side for women due to how much he poured into their characters‚ but there is a difference between the author portraying women sympathetically and to how they were actually treated in the book. Women are objectified in Ovid rather than viewed as equals to men which can be clearly seen in the accounts of Pygmalion‚ the excursions of Jupiter‚ Tereus‚ and other violations enacted

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    more interesting. The movie Sydney White (2007) is a modern take on Snow White about how a girl survives in a strange world called college. There are similarities and many differences when it comes to the beginning‚ middle‚ and end of these two fairy tales. In the beginning of Snow White‚ a mother wants to bare a daughter to complete her life with a face as white as snow and hair as dark as ebony‚ but when she got her wish she died suddenly after giving birth. Her husband was then forced to marry

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    folklore which was published‚ titled “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”. Many of their tales were deemed too gruesome and grim for children‚ but in recent times‚ modern storytellers have adapted their tales to something perceived as more worthy and suitable for children. While there are some advantageous aspects to these modern takes on the Grimm Brothers’ Tales‚ they (like the initial tales) can be regarded as gruesome and grim through their portrayal of women‚ deception in giving false hope and their setting

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