Grimm's Fairy Tales

Cinderella There may be hundreds of Cinderella stories but these three are my favorite Algonquin, Ascghenputtle, and Yeh-Shen. All these stories are very similar like all have a Cinderella characters and magic, they are also very old like Yeh-Shen is over 1,000 years old. Cinderella was treated very poorly because she had to stay home and clean up the other people’s mess. But of course Cinderella always gets the prince and they live happily ever after. All these stories have a different view…

Disney Princesses and the Effects on Child Development Whelan (2012) stated that princess narratives has been key throughout children’s literature. Hurley (2005) stated that fairy tales, such as Disney Princess narratives play a crucial role in shaping self-image of a child. England, Descartes, and Collier-Meek (2011) claimed that Disney Princess films portray stereotypical presentations of gender roles and have several examples of racism and sexism by having almost every princess have large…

Young children are unable to fathom the difference between fact and fantasy and there are various factors that contribute to this theory. A study published in the journal, Cognitive Science, consists of children between the ages of five and six and their ability to identify the nature of the protagonist in three different stories: reality-based, fantasy-based, and religious-based was questioned (Corriveau, Chen, & Harris, 2015). The results indicated that children exposed to religion or raised…

Knights of pure chivalry, warriors of bravery and wrath. Bedtime stories, riddled with villains, monsters, and dragons opening the floodgates of horror on royal subjects. Either through the means of science or time, the creatures have been condemned to only be real in stories. The snarling beasts of old, terrorizing only the pages of a book, the croaking voice of an old man passing on a story to children around a fire. The story of Beowulf is not excluded from the examples previously mentioned.…

multiple tests and see who their allies are. For Odysseus, it was meeting Circe and Aeolus. Circe the witch tries to make them to a pig: “Down to the ship Eurylochus came running to cry alarm, foul magic doomed his men! But working with… we heard the tale: our friends were gone….”(Homer, pg.387)Then there was Aeolus who helped Odysseus by giving him wind to send him back to Ithaca, but after a ferocious windstorm made by Odysseus’ sidekicks he pronounced their trip to…

Pan’s Labyrinth commences when the main character, an eleven year old girl named Ofelia, and her pregnant, sickly mother travel into the forest to an old mill with her evil stepfather. Ofelia clings to her mother at the beginning of the story to not confront the unhappiness of her reality. One night she sneaks out of the mill lured by a locus to an enchanted garden in the forest, and interacts with a faun that informs her about her father and her potential future. Once she returns back to mill…

The film Beauty and The Beast, is well known throughout America, ninety-nine percent of people will have very good memory of the Disney fable. Beauty and The Beast has been apart of our culture for many years. It is story that has been passed down and will continue to be passed for years to come. There is more to this story than a girl falling in love with a beast. There are a lot of different ways to analyze Beauty and the beast. Some people might feel uncomfortable talking about them. The…

to dive into. In an essay “On Fairy Stories,” written by Tolkien, he describes to us what he believes makes a “fairy story,” a “fairy story.” One of these rules he describes is Escape and the ways a story can connect, not only within itself but, with the reader in order to create a total immersion between the reader and book. When I had read Hard Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World by Haruki Murakami, it was clear to me that this was not a traditional “fairy story,” or as one that Tolkien…

The original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” by the Brothers Grimm and “The Girl, The Wolf, The Crone,” by Kellie Wells have many similarities and differences throughout the stories. However, Kellie Wells takes a different approach to the story; she takes the story and uses symbols to let the reader know what she feels about the Catholic religion. The original story is not based on religion. It is simply telling a story about a girl who visits her grandmother, who was eaten by a wolf, but…

the first things that pops up in my head are fairy tales, folklore, and legends. For hundreds of years, tales and legends have been told and re-told to different audiences around the world. Travelers would share the stories that they had previously heard and they would either tell it exactly as they heard it or they would add to the story or change it in order to make it a completely different story. Each tale brings a different perspective of another tale which demonstrates all the endless…