Grimm's Fairy Tales

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…

Folklore Literary Analysis: “Robin Hood” Disney’s Robin Hood has been a childhood classic that has become very popular over the years; it teaches the kids many lessons, they are taught that no matter what time period you live in, money will always be very important. Though the original Robin Hood had been changed severely due to children audience that Disney attracts, it has many of the same morals. The original Robin Hood utilizes archetypes to show the young crowd that you should take from…

Fantasy works are not just entertainment or escapist stories for kids. Much like classic stories, these fantasy works educate readers about stuff they wouldn’t normally care to know about. Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring teaches a lot about Jamaican and African history. Gros-Jeanne (who was born in the Caribbean and moved to Canada) explains to her granddaughter, Ti-Jeanne, how important it is to serve the spirits. However, Ti-Jeanne who has begun to assimilate to Canadian culture…

The play, Into the Woods, begins with each character expressing what their goals are. Cinderella wants to attend the King’s festival, Jack wishes for his cow, Milky-White, to give milk, The Baker and his Wife wish to conceive a child, and Little Red wishes to go to Granny’s house. Cinderella’s Stepsisters don’t want Cinderella to attend the ball and Jack’s Mother insists that Jack has to sell his pet cow. The Baker and his Wife are visited by Little Red, who buys bread to bring to her ill Granny…

I decided to choose a beloved book of my childhood, Rumpelstiltskin. A quick summery of the book is, a peasant didn’t pay his taxes to the kingdom so he promise his daughter who can spin straw into gold to keep him out of jail. Turns out, the daughter can’t spin straw into gold so she has to seek help from Rumpelstiltskin. She gives him her necklace, a ring, and then promises her first born child to him, in return for turning the straw into gold. When she has her first child he comes along to…

Omar Al-ekakili Teacher’s name English 102 9/15/15 How much can You Really Trust the Author While many people think of fairy tales as a way of teaching kids different life lessons, and those people are not wrong, but fairy tales hold much deeper meaning and scripts that kids might not understand. This leaves the job to the adults to decipher and learn the story and see what the author had intentionally put there and in many cases unintentionally leave clues and behaviors that can be used to…

“Evolution of Women” When reading the title “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, one would assume that it would be a fairytale that allowed the characters to live happily ever after, however, this story is not as such. Charles Perrault published his version of “Sleeping Beauty” in 1697. “Sleeping Beauty” started off as more of an entertainment story for adults that was filled with cruelty and filthy sexual behaviors. Back in those times, telling stories was the only way to keep people entertained.…

depicted as feeble and powerless, while men are seen in the opposite view as powerful and capable. This stereotype is depicted in both Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” and Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper”, where females are portrayed as not being able to help themselves without the assistance of a man. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s “Little Red Cap” is a classic example of an innocent girl needing to be saved. Little Red Cap goes into the woods to deliver baked goods and…

There once was a tree named Penny that stood in the middle of the grassy field. She was surrounded by trees that bared leaves all year long. Penny had a problem: she could not bear leaves. It made her very sad. All of the trees around her snickered and made fun of poor Penny. Penny prayed that leaves would grow on her branches but nothing would come. The trees next to her were full of leaves that changed colors of red, orange, and yellow every season. “Look at her. She has no…

Of the fifteen fantasy novel covers, there seems to be an implicit standard in employing Arthurian and medieval themes among most illustrators. The heavily romanticized rendering of the fantasy story as an archetypical tale with green dragons, enchanted weapons, and gratuitous cleavage operates as a genre identifier, similar to the burly-haired lumberjacks of romance novels. While it may seem detrimental for the genre to don a homogeneous veil, the purpose of collective identity remains. When…