Sleeping Woman

Once upon a time, there lived a teenager named Cinderella.Cinderella lived with her wealthy,but horribly evil stepmother and stepsisters who tried to make her out of their servant. Cinderella wished for nothing but to leave the horribly people more than ever. So, she wished to meet the prince and it finally happened. Then Cinderella and the prince fell in love and lived happily ever after. The formal Cinderella is a classic fairy tale that has been around for a very long time. Some people have…

Ever After; Cinderella Did you know, in the movie Ever After, the characters are less dimwitted than in the fairy tale “Cinderella”? The movies prince doesn’t need a bird to tell him he has the wrong girl. The movie is better and with characters who actually think. Both the movie and fairy tale are different, but they are also the same. For example, in both stories the father got a new wife along with two new step children. The new children and wife are of course mean to Cinderella…

Upon starting this new unit, I was not excited about researching the controversy of gender. You wouldn’t really think gender would be a controversy but unfortunately, today, it is. After hearing the different ways, I could approach this project, I felt more comfortable. I decided to research my favorite empire, Disney. There has been a lot of debate about how Disney portrays gender in their films and products. I enjoyed finding other opinions on this issue, even if they were against Disney. I,…

The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces Analysis Although this story has been made into several other movies and books including a Barbie Movie (The Twelve Dancing Princesses), the original Grimm’s Fairytale version will be the subject of this analysis. The original story was published in 1857 in the Kinder und Hausmarchen book. This tale both enforces and disputes several stereotypes and contains one violent part. While reading, the story is enhanced by these stereotypes and violent section…

As a child, did you dream of being a princess or a queen when you grow up? When you start growing up, parents read you bedtime stories about princes and fairies; all unrealistic things. Monsters were part of the tales told, like Grendel, dragons, and demons found in Beowulf. Then you grow out of all of the fake thoughts and think realistically. You start to dream of real occupations you can acquire and think about life from a different point of view. Although we grew up with these illusions of…

Reading Journal 1 It seems to get ahead within the world of the Grimm’s tales, one must be good. To be more specific, characters who seem pure, innocent, righteous, and virtuous seem to get ahead. On the other hand, those who seem greedy, cruel, or self-interested seem to be portrayed as villainous. Also, most heroes within these stories, seem to be intelligent, or at least smarter than the villains. However, in some stories this concept does not seem to be present. In today’s world, most…

Innocent Beauties and Their Monsters There are many fairy tales that have discussed in this class. And the most interested stories from these fairy tales are Snow White by Brother Grimm and Ever After: A Cinderella Story directed by Andy Tennant based on Cinderella by Charles Perrault. There are many different version of Snow White and Cinderella from different culture. However both of these stories are known as children bed time story and they are very famous around the world. In addition, the…

Some mentors are better than others, whether it be fairy godmothers, trees, or even cows! Some can be Good or evil and living or nonliving.The mentor is different throughout all cultures and it reveals how that culture does things differently than others. The mentors are also very different from the French and Russian Cinderella stories. Social necessities are what dictate the mentors. It shows how the people act and how the different social classes are supposed to act. The Russian and the…

Cinderella was a stepdaughter, and her stepmother was sure to remind her of that. Cinderella was treated unfairly and very poorly. In fact her stepfamily treated her like a slave not at all like a family. Often Cinderella was left in tears after an encounter with the new family. Cinderella was so much better than them, she was human unlike the others who were two faced. While the other two sisters got to go out and have fun Cinderella was left at home scrubbing floors and tending to laundry…

‘’Well that is the long and short of my hairytale’’, as you could probably tell by that awful joke…this is an essay about Rapunzel. There is two versions I’m going to talk about in this paper; Tangled the movie & ‘’Rapunzel’’ the original fairytale. In this essay I will compare & contrast the two, to help me decide which version of Rapunzel the common American like me & you would enjoy more. So without further a-do… lets get started. Tangled kept a few things in common with the original…