Giambattista della Porta

Throughout time, women have encountered massive discrimination from a shortage of lawful rights and extremely small independence from men. In many modern countries such as Syria, Yemen, North Korea, and many more, women are still perceived as less than fully human. The United States has been fighting for women’s rights since the 19th century, but the results have always revealed men as the masculine and dominant ones. One can see the lack of power for women constantly appearing in literature,…

Many of the short stories in Elizabeth McCracken’s HERE’S YOUR HAT WHAT’S YOUR HURRY (1993) contain characters so abnormal that they are seen in circus sideshows. However, the author’s focus is on the response of ordinary people to their encounters with the extraordinary. The subject of McCracken’s first novel is the same, but the approach is different. THE GIANT’S HOUSE is appropriately subtitled “A Romance.” Not only is it a story of romantic love, but it is also the kind of fiction which,…

Dissolving Normative Boundaries: Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales Fairy tales, as Jack Zipes argues in Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre for Children and the Process of Civilisation (1983), adapted from oral folklore and initiated into the written literary tradition was a marginalized genre till the 1970s (1-3). With critics and readers becoming sensitive to the underlying politics of fairy tales, the selection and appropriation of specific tales from scores of popular…

A Cheesecake like a dream Movie by：and recipe + kitada:design Recipe by：Hidesue Yamada (and recipe) The etymology of the Japanese word "Yume(夢: dream)" comes from the word “Ime(寝目),” consisting of "I(寝: to sleep)" and "Me(目: to see)." It is said that the word was firstly used during the Heian period, as a metaphor for the Hakanasa(儚さ: transient). Furthermore, Hakanai(儚い) means that a person dreamed, which shows the sentiment value of the Japanese. In western countries, on the other hand, the…

Short Story Essay Dragons, witches, princess and knights. These are the imaginary friends in so many children's lives. For young adults, those fairy tale characters give way to darker characters and more realistic situations. However, what do they all have in common? They live in short stories. Two short stories that are, interesting are "A Man Called Horse" by Dorothy M. Johnson and "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury. The protagonist in "A Man Called Horse" leaves his wealthy family in…

Talk on Language, Gender and Power in Fairytales: Hello, I’m going to talk about how language gender and power are portrayed in children’s fairytales. Fairytales are those innocent and indispensable bedtime stories that have practically been a child’s practice for many generations. For instance, who hasn’t heard of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow White? We all grew up with these bedtime stories and are so familiar with their tales and characters that we scarcely have the time to figure out…

The title of this fairy tale, “The Wolf King and the Prom Queen” presents the stereotypical “talking animal” theme and the lost girl as part of a classic approach to the plot of this story. In this case, the story Little Red Riding Hood is presented in a modern context, which reveals the “werewolf” in the character of Winny. This aspect of classic fairy tales is part of the human presentation of talking animals in the role of the Wolf King: “Little Red Riding Hood’s wolf has become an…

Innocent Beauties and Their Monsters There are many fairy tales that have discussed in this class. And the most interested stories from these fairy tales are Snow White by Brother Grimm and Ever After: A Cinderella Story directed by Andy Tennant based on Cinderella by Charles Perrault. There are many different version of Snow White and Cinderella from different culture. However both of these stories are known as children bed time story and they are very famous around the world. In addition, the…

Some mentors are better than others, whether it be fairy godmothers, trees, or even cows! Some can be Good or evil and living or nonliving.The mentor is different throughout all cultures and it reveals how that culture does things differently than others. The mentors are also very different from the French and Russian Cinderella stories. Social necessities are what dictate the mentors. It shows how the people act and how the different social classes are supposed to act. The Russian and the…

Brothers Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm were and nineteenth century scholars known for their work in fairy tails such as Rapunzel and Cinderella. Both brothers were born in Hanau, Germany, Jakob in the year 1785 and Wilhelm following in 1786. In the year 1798 their father died, leaving their mother and her six children including the brothers to move in with their grandfather and aunt. Thanks to their aunt Jakob and Wilhelm were able to join a highly ranked high school called ‘The Friedrichgymnasium’ in…