came off as these perfect, magical, things that were iconic in the Disney version, but in the Original version, they were the exact opposite. The dress was torn, the prince was a phony, and the glass slipper was simply destroyed by the ugly step sisters, that would soon have a date with death. 'Off with her head!'The Prince roared back./ They chopped it off with one big whack./ This pleased the Prince. He smiled and said,/ 'She's prettier without her head' (Dahl). This excerpt from the poem…
focus on my steps which echo on the stage in unison with the calm beat of the music. This is it, the moment I have been preparing for non-stop for months. I am dancing Swan Lake. My name is Odette. Alright, so my name isn’t actually Odette, it’s Annie. The boring, brunette, ballerina who likes to escape into fantasy lands such as the land of the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, or Cinderella. However, the only way I can do this is through my dancing. This is a good thing because years ago I had devoted my…
love, peace, and solidarity, education will be an important stepping stone in facilitating this process. As part of my service learning experience, I worked to promote the learning and development of young students at the Felician College Child Care Center located on Felician University’s Lodi Campus. The Felician College Child Care Center, founded in 1987, consists of Felician Sisters and lay teachers who uphold many of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Their philosophy is that…
to feel quite Ducky. Marinette felt like she was getting high off Helium, and was a balloon about to alleviate itself. The simple tease of the sugar began to tease itself in her mouth, which made her lick her lips blissfully. “Hey stud, can you get my friend and I another round?” Marinette whispered seductively at the bartender. “Sure, dollface! This one is on the house,” The bartender replied with a wink and Marinette blew him a kiss as a thank you. Marinette handed Alya another cocktail,…
Short Critical Response “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents” In the book, “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”, by Julia Alvarez shows the lives of four sisters who struggle with finding their own identities in American culture. The four girls named Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia were forced to move out of the Dominican Republic when they were young girls and now struggle to adapt to a new culture that is much different from their social norms. The elements of the text that I…
Fairy tales have been around for centuries, but underneath the sugar coated, Disney films we have come to know and love, lies a dark truth. The oral tradition of the fairy tale came long before the tradition of written stories. Tales were told or enacted dramatically, rather than written down, and handed down from generation to generation. After years of these stories being passed down orally, two brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, became fascinated with old folktales, fables, legends, and…
every sibling is trying to show off that she is the best by comparing to each other in order to fulfill her satisfaction. This leads people lost their morality by getting the wants only: “Cinderella, who was not less good than beautiful, gave her two sisters lodgings in the palace, and that vey same day matched them with two great lords of the court” (5). Cinderella finally wins the game as she obtain the prince and become powerful that she is able to give something to her stepsisters. This…
The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov is a play that takes place in a 19th century rural town in Russia. The Prosorov siblings, Olga, Masha, Irina and Andrey are unsatisfied with their life in this provincial town, so they dream that one day they will return to Moscow. Moscow symbolises hope for the Prosorovs. They identify Moscow with their happiness in which they feel they can fulfil their dreams. But their constant fantasizing of Moscow makes them neglect their present. There are references to…
Over the years, many versions of Cinderella have been written, each one is unique in itself but, they share just enough characteristics with the original tale that they can still be called a Cinderella story. One of the key characteristics of a Cinderella story is that there is a stepmother and stepchild. But it is deeper than that, throughout the history of this story the stepmother is always shown as being cruel towards her stepchild. Not only will the nature of the stepmothers’ cruelty be…
huge Disney fan, I still am, and Cinderella was one of my favorites, The Disney version is a little different than Perrault’s version and a lot different than the Grimm Brothers version. I chose to base my fairy tale off of Perrault’s version. In the French version, it is more like the Disney Cinderella and is not as gruesome as the Grimm Brothers. I feel like I knew more about Perrault’s Cinderella and could relate more to it. I brought my version of Cinderella into the modern days of the…