Grimm's Fairy Tales

The fairy tale is a genre of literature that has been around for hundreds of years in cultures all over the world; some stories have a surplus of versions from different cultures one of the most popular among these stories is, Cinderella. Children usually hear about fairy tales from a very young age whether their parents read stories to them, or they watch a movie about the stories. These stories give children an open mind about circumstances that will never happen to them. However, over the…

“How the Story of Moana and Maui Holds Up Against Cultural Truths” is an article written by Doug Herman that compares the Disney movie Moana to the cultural beliefs that it is based on. The movie Moana involves the protagonist named Moana and her adventure to return the stolen heart of Tifi Ti with Maui the demigod helping her return what he stole. The characters within the movie Moana are based upon the Polynesian myths to create this story. The author Doug Herman’s purpose in creating this…

Living Trapped in Dead Marriages In the collection of short stories titled Magic for Beginners, Kelly Link paints a vivid picture of the family relationships in the modern society with an original and humorous approach. Through an ingenious use of the Fabulist fiction genre, Kelly tinges her stories with magical and enigmatic figures that leave the reader astonished, disoriented, yet amused. Cats, cat’s skin, witches, ghosts, mediums, rabbits, crocodiles and possessed objects personify…

educator and therapist of severely disturbed children. Bettelheim’s main task was to restore meaning to the children’s lives. He shows the approach to the psychological problems and how it relates to the fairy tales. Bettelheim makes some agreeable points and debatable points in his analysis of fairy tales. An agreeable point Bettelheim makes is as “appealing as naïveté is, it is dangerous to remain naïve all one’s life.” If a person is naïve all their life, they could fall into many dangerous…

Imagine having to decide between giving the person you love to someone else or killing the person you love. That’s what a princess had to decide in a short story by Frank Stockton called “The Lady or the Tiger.” The princess had to decide between feeding her lover to a tiger or giving him away to another girl because the princess’ father didn’t like they were together. The princess selected the lady instead of killing her boyfriend. There are two distinctive types of reasons that demonstrate…

Princess Cimorene, in the book Dealing with Dragons, Cimorene is expected to follow the social norms of her time. The setting of the book is the medieval times. Even, though Cimorene is a princess she doesn’t act like she is expected too, and is justified in not following the expectations. Cimorene is justified to show apathy towards the expectations of her time because she is not given the right to make her own choices.Her parents were forcing her to marry someone she didn’t want to marry. The…

A Reconsideration of “Zootopia”: Stereotype Zheng Kejia Wenzhou-Kean University Introduction The movie “Zootopia” is a comedy cartoon movie which was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studio in 2016. This movie mainly talks about how a “small” rabbit and a “sly” fox work together to detect a mysterious case, and finally found a huge conspiracy hidden behind this case (Spencer, & Howard, and Moore, 2016). Although this is an animal-based cartoon movie, it veritably and…

Fairytales adopt extreme, unrealistic measures to mesmerize readers while also conveying a life lesson to its readers-typically children. These exaggerated stories are intended to instill a clear distinction between right and wrong and to spark a high sense of morality in children. However, beliefs and standards are obscure. In Lin Lan’s Cinderella, virtue is portrayed as a characteristic to be rewarded, but in reality immaturity is awarded at the end. The story opens with the introduction of…

In “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,” the phrase “mirror, mirror on the wall” is never stated. It’s actually “magic mirror on the wall.” The “Berenstein Bears” don’t exist; It has always been “The Berenstain Bears." There are even some who remember a 90’s movie that never existed, called “Shazaam.” Some would suggest this is evidence of us living in a parallel universe, as reported by Douglas Mcpherson on the Telegraph, and that these false memories are actually real memories from an alternate…

Bride Dance Headline: A Bride Suddenly gets a Lot of Attention for What Happened on Her Wedding Day. In This Bizarre Twist, a Bridesmaid Shocks Everyone With Her Announcement. Summary: One bride has to forego a father-daughter dance with her terminally ill father, but a bridesmaid steps in to fill the gap. Introduction: One surprising moment on a bride's wedding day left the audience completely stunned. Most brides wait their whole live for the father-daughter dance at their wedding. In…