Brothers Grimm

Ella Enchanted VS. Cinderella Ella Enchanted is a Cinderella story with a twist. I never really thought that Ella Enchanted and Cinderella had so much in common. I have watched both of them many times and never realized all the similarities and differences even though Ella is a version of Cinderella. One slight difference in between the two is that Ella is cursed with the gift of obedience. She is not allowed to disobey no matter what the order that is given to her. She finally just accepts…

Fairy tales usually involve a happy princess who falls in love with a prince and they live happily ever after, the end. Typically, there isn’t a negative side to the story other than the occasional evil witch that the princess easily overcomes. These stories are almost always used as bedtime stories for children to give them a happy situation to sleep on and they usually do not have a deeper, underlying theme. “The Thing in the Forest” by A.S. Byatt is a different type of fairy tale with a much…

‘’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…

Another example of the kidnapped woman using fairytales as a tool for survival is when she compares her imprisonment to that of Cinderella. She pleads, “At least Cinderella had her work to keep her busy – the familiarity of sweeping floors and washing windows and cooking the daily bread. If nothing else, because she had truly suffered she could appreciate her ever after” (p. 37). Knowing the Cinderella story gives the kidnapped woman perspective on her situation. She does not have daily tasks to…

On a brisk December morning there skipped two young children throughout the woods, covered in frost as white as milk. Their names were Hansel and Grethel. “Hansel,” Grethel had said, “You must keep to the path dear brother, as not to find thyself in a predicament.” Hansel was not happy about this, as he had found a very tempting gold 5-pound piece resting on a rock. He said to Grethel, “Fear not, dear sister. I shall only have to reach as far as my arm will go.” As Hansel reached for the…

princesses and their shoes are described to the readers. How the princesses, “were shut and locked up” but, “their shoes were found to be quite worn” and the king's challenge, “if any person could discover the secret…[they] should be king after his death” (Grimm 1). Meaning there is a clear goal laid out to set up the rest of the book. 3. The rising action of the tale is when the wounded soldier passes through the land and learns the secret to finding out the princesses dancing. The climax of…

IT’S A WOLF “We should make a music video,” Anna suggested. “Why not? I mean we have nothing else to do...” I responded. “You guys do look pretty bored. You should come to the creek with us,” Henry interrupted. Anna and I exchanged looks. We didn’t particularly like the creek. It could be scary sometimes. And the sun was starting to set. “I’ll go,” Anna said. I didn’t want to be alone, so I agreed to go with her. I had no idea what was about to happen. We walked to Mape Park, which as…

was born into royalty, as a princess whose beauty and grace was known throughout the kingdom. She is described in the story by her mother, as having skin “as white as snow, [lips] as red as blood, and [hair] as black as [the] ebony window frame” (Grimm 10). However, her beauty was the very source of tragedy which awaited her. By the age of 7, “she was as bright as the day, and fairer than the queen herself”. The last created an “envy” in the heart of the Queen, and a “rage” which no attempt of…

Being jealous of others can become an obsession for many people and can also ruin one’s personality. The adaptations of the original story Snow White some are known as Little Snow White, Gold Tree and Silver Tree. In these stories, some characters such as the Queen and the Silver Tree show their selfish and inhumane personalities. In Little Snow White the Queen, who is the mother went insane with jealousy and decided to kill her daughter and wanted to eat her. Also in the Gold Tree and Silver…

Cinderella There may be hundreds of Cinderella stories but these three are my favorite Algonquin, Ascghenputtle, and Yeh-Shen. All these stories are very similar like all have a Cinderella characters and magic, they are also very old like Yeh-Shen is over 1,000 years old. Cinderella was treated very poorly because she had to stay home and clean up the other people’s mess. But of course Cinderella always gets the prince and they live happily ever after. All these stories have a different view…