Fairy

As toddlers, we're fed fairy tales that present a one-dimensional view of falling in love with your prince charming and everything naturally falling into place after that. As we grow up, social media continues to feed us the fantasy that it's an achievable goal. Lydia Davis' "Break It Down" utilizes money as a means of attempting to measure how much he's invested in romance. On the other hand, Anne Sexton's "Cinderella" puts a satirical twist on the age-old classic fairy tale that is probably…

Identity and morals go hand in hand and tend to influence a person’s conscious decision. Maria Tatar’s article, “An Introduction to Fairy Tales” addresses how morals and personal values shape the decisions made by the public, especially the lives of children. The issue being addressed lies on how children learn through fairytales and develop moral direction because of the “powerful therapeutic…

The story of Cinderella was written by The Brothers Grimm in 1812. However, these two brothers did not actually write the original story of Cinderella, rather they wrote an adaptation of the German fairy tale. Their goal was to record all the popular fairy tales in order keep the old German tradition alive and make the people have pride in their country. They interviewed family members and various people in order to get the full stories. The stories were initially aimed at German families,…

Said to be one of Disney’s best films, Beauty and the Beast is based on a French fairy tale about a beautiful woman who falls in love with a beast. This film sends the message that “it’s what is inside that really matters”. Jeanne Marie- Leprince de Beaumont wrote the timeless tale of “The Beauty and the beast” which has been embraced by the hearts of many for decades. The moral of the original tale by Beaumont, written in 1757, is that it doesn’t matter what occurs on the outside, because…

and six for the rest of the books existence. (Keeline). The poem ends with a final “that story” (109), which is much more ominous and foreboding than the others. This happily ever after is more lifeless than it is happy. Sexton truly flipped this fairy tale around on its head.. Happiness all the time is not freedom, it’s more like a life sentence. Not everything is happiness, and riches, and sometimes life needs a happily never after. Life has its ups and downs, and that is what makes us…

Fairy tales and folk myths have a long history of being told to children as bedtime stories for many of generations, and as the tales get told time and time again different variations and versions of these stories have emerged. A prime example of this is Angela Carter’s book “The Bloody Chamber and other stories”. Carter has created multiple new stories from classic fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White” allowing her to inject her own modern twist and interest in gender…

Like many forms of folktales, Fairy tales serve as enduring classics which ubiquitously permeate our culture. “Pans Labyrinth” or “El laberinto del fauno” by Guillermo Del Toro is a profound 2006 cinematic film which idiosyncratically serves as a spiritual successor to the traditional fairy tale genre. A dark and forebodingly twisted fantasy---Pan’s labyrinth is set in a period of history when the fascist Franco regime was in power. The underlying patriarchal society, the prominent illustration…

that are capable of saving both themselves, and others. In accordance with that, this movie shows an aspect of realism, that men can be evil, and a woman can live without a man, unlike the typical “housewife” archetype which blooms throughout many fairy tales. Most importantly, true love is not just with some lousy prince, in this move feminism is represented as girl power can in fact be stronger than “fate or destiny”. Within this adaption from Sleeping Beauty, women are portrayed as artists,…

and prominence, like her snobby sisters. Though Beauty sees past the “monstorous men” that her sisters married, who like to “spend all day in front of the mirror” and have “great wit, but infuriated everybody.” (38, 40) Beauty in this conservative fairy tale, picks the man who does not have the wit or the looks, but rather has the kindness. This form of man, comes rather in the form a Beastly creature. The Beast is described as “horrible figure”. After learining of his aspects, beauty exclaims,…

The juice is a spell that causes the character to fall in love with the first living organism they see. As a result, puck applies the juice to the eyes of the fairy queen Titania, from the magic world, and an Athenian man named Lysander, from the “real” world. Puck was suppose to put the juice on Demetrius, but he applied it to the wrong Athenian man. After they all woke up, the queen fell in love with a monster…