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There’s always two sides to a story, in this case these stories are fairy tales Original and traditional, the Grimm brothers and Disney. With two sides of one story there's going to be similarities and also differences. When you read some Disney stories and compare them to the original version you will find that original fairy tales written by the Grimm Brothers are more targeted towards an older audience then little kids because their more violent than Disney, both versions show royalty as…

Social background and culture no doubt are the major factors affecting story elements. This paper will compare how social background and culture affect the way of expression in Western and Chinese children’s fantasy literature when two stories having the same elements, by comparing Cinderella and Ye Xian(葉限). Ye Xian is a Chinese fairy tale written by Duan Chengshi(段成式) in Tang dynasty compilation Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang(酉陽雜俎). It is one of the oldest known variants of Cinderella,…

Imagine Earth as a place where everyone in it has magical powers. Would life in it be the same as we are living now? Even the animals and the trees have power too and can talk. While you are thinking about it or imagining Earth like that, I want to tell you that there is a place like the one you are imagining right now. It’s Narnia. The unbelievable land where it’s always dark and cold. It’s a place where four siblings went during World War II as C.S. Lewis mentioned in his book. He wrote the…

Introduction: our vision was Snowbeth which is Macbeth with a fairytale twists, specifically the original version of snow white. We have chosen to keep the plot, line and characters as similar to Macbeth as possible and incorporate elements of snow white like the iconic apple. We tried to emphasis the horror element of the play as well as the major themes in every scene. Costumes and Props Visons: our costume choices were made to intertwine Macbeth and snow white, and reflect the theme…

Forest Name: Quiet Ash Grove (Devil's Playground, Faustian Forest) Riding I: The Prowling Wolf, He is Caring __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Winters in Jump City, California were rarely bothersome and cruel, quite the opposite in fact. By night, when the shadows ruled the land, small flakes of snow would fall from dark clouds above, and bless the earth with its magnificent beauty and form. Water would freeze…

The fairy tale “Lil Red Riding Hood” By Ronald Blackwell is a modern version of Little Red Riding Hood with a twist. Similarly to the traditional version, this modern fairy tale displays how men seek women. What really sets this modern version apart from the traditional version is the tone that this story is written in. This version of Little Red Riding Hood is written in a seductive tone and Blackwell has the wolf telling the story from his point of view. Unlike the traditional version where…

Little Red Hood is a fairy tale that can be found the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s first collection Children’s and Household Tales in 1812 (Malone 4). The brothers were not the first to write this story, their version was created from versions of the story they were previously told (“Moral Warnings and Sexual Implications”). Compared to the version the brothers were told, they changed how the story ends (“Moral Warnings and Sexual Implications”). A second edition by the brothers was published in…

Fairy tales are often pictured as the stories parents would be reading at bedtime to their children before going to sleep. Mostly made of extraordinary features and starting with the famous “Once Upon a Time” are the stereotypes of fairy tales. Actually, the term fairy tales comes directly from French that is literally translated from contes de fées. In 1698, Countess Aulnoy initiated the use of the term “Contes de Fées” for the title of a book, and others writers started using the same term…

Little Red Riding Hood: An Alternative Earlier in the story, Little Red Riding Hood is warned of strangers, but little does she know, there can be worse things. Meanwhile, the wolf ran straight to the grandmother’s house and knocked at the door. “Who is it?” a weary old woman’s voice croaked from behind the door. “It is I, Little Red Cap. I have come with cake and wine to soothe your tired soul” sang back the wolf, in the best Little Red Cap voice he could produce. Now, sick as she may be,…

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, “Red Riding Hood,” and “Bluebeard” are all horrifying tales in their original standing as fairy tales. Yet, when related to this modern horror, The Shining, through the eyes of little Danny theses tales take on a new light…well more of darkness. Stephen King hints to other texts throughout this book, many are fairy tales. One of the deepest and eerie moments in relation to the tales is the chapter titled “Inside 217.” In this section,…