Fairy

The Grimm Brother’s fairy tales are one of the few pieces of craftful literature that continues to prevail from the time they were written to today, with the utmost popularity. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm have written the majority of fairy tales and princess stories that every generation since the 1800s have embedded in our childhoods, from Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, Cinderella, and even Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs. The modern Disney classic Snow White was originally written by the Grimm…

Paper #1 – Little Red Riding Hood In The Classic Fairy Tales, Bruno Bettelheim states that Little Red Riding Hood’s failure to fight back or to resist in any way led him to declare “that the girl must be stupid or she wants to be seduced” (4). Similar statements have been used to describe rape victims for many years, regardless of their actions and appearances. In many versions of “Little Red Riding Hood”, Little Red has been described by authors as “a pretty village girl” and “a dear little…

Fairy Tales: Disney vs Grimm Brothers Everyone at some point has seen or heard of the Disney fairy tales such as the well-known Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and so on and so forth. However, what you might not know is where these stories originated from. A majority of Disney’s stories are an adaption of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales which aren’t nearly as heartwarming as Disney portrays them as. However, how do the two stories compare and contrast to one another? The major similarities and…

Little red cap is the original story and hoodwinked is the fractured story. What make hoodwinked a fairy tale is that it is linked with little red cap and is not the same but the main features are changed for example granny in hoodwinked is active and all about living life and in the little red cap she is sick in bed. Some of the massive differences is that the recipes are being stolen, that red is a bit mouthy, no one dies in hoodwinked. Some of the things that are similar is that there is a…

Once Upon A Nightmare: An Analysis on How Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales, Gender Roles, and Feminism Have Given Rise to Fractured Fairy Tales and Feminist Fairy Tales. Once upon a nightmare there was a businessman who wanted to create an empire. However he needed costumers and a product at that, but who could he get, a consumer source untapped? After a few thoughts, an idea popped in his head, “Children!”, he thought and he began to form his plan. For the product, he took old stories and made them…

Upon a Time, discusses the breadth and oeuvre of the fairy tale genre, delving into its progression into children’s literature and the darkening of themes in recent years as part of a reclamation process. The novel is presented as a history of the fairy tale, spanning from the first mentions of the worlds of faery, on into the 21st century to look at adaptations, particularly film and theater re-imaginings of the words and worlds of the fairy tale. However, in the opening prologue, Warner offers…

Fairy tales have changed dramatically throughout the years. Think of a well-known fairy tale that you grew up with… Now think about how many different versions of that fairy tale you have seen or heard over the years… One of the first fairy tales that I remember is Little Red Riding Hood. The first version of this fairy tale was written in 1697… however since then the story has been retold many times with each author using different plots, settings, themes, characters and techniques to retell…

realization that these were not the Disney versions was immediate. For my semester project I would like to explore the evolution of the fairytales from the original tale to modern day adaptions and how they transformed to fit the changing times. The first fairy tale I would like to cover is Beauty and the Beast. The earliest version of tale is from the second century and is known as “Cupid and Psyche. However, the most widely know version is La Belle et La Bete, published in 1756, by French…

In Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretations of Dreams, he spoke of the Oedipus Rex, which is also known as the Oedipus complex. Where in most cases the son kills off the father in order to marry and get with the mother (Freud, 816). Freud believes that all men have these desires in their id but their superego ends up compressing these thoughts. The reason for this is because society rejects these impulses and so we must learn control our urges. Notice how, in the last sentence instead of placing a…

The Fairytale titled The Bremen Town-Musicians was published by the brothers Grimm in their collection of fairy tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1812). The tale itself has a long cultural legacy, with adaptations to stage, film, animation, and a series of sculptures depicting the main characters, the donkey, the dog, the cat, and the chicken stacked on top of each other. It being a fairytale, it is rife with imagery and metaphor, basic building blocks for meaning and lessons in allegory. So what is…