Hansel and Gretel

stranger and that not everything is as it seems which still seems to be the main theme throughout and so far the character of Little Red Riding Hood being the victim and the Wolf being the predator. This tale is similar to the Three Little Pigs, Hansel and Gretel, and many more stories that depict the wolf being a stranger and a predator causing trouble. This story is good to teach children about all the wrong things that can happen from talking to a stranger and it will detour kids from doing…

universally recognized stereotype, the wicked stepmother, can be found in “The Juniper Tree” by the Grimm Brothers. The wicked stepmother stereotype can be found throughout all types of literature, with the most common examples in fairy tales such as “Hansel and Gretel,” “Snow White,” and “Cinderella.” Theresa Porter refers to the wicked stepmother as one “who abuses, starves, or attempts to murder the innocent hero/heroine” (The Wicked Stepmother Porter). The narrator tells us of the stepmother…

Everyone has dreams. Everyone has goals. However, some people can be over competitive as they try to follow their goals and dreams. This can make it hard to think of other people because all they think about is themselves and their own goals. They can not understand how other people feel. However, people like Squeaky, the protagonist in “Raymond's Run” by Toni Cade Bambara, can actually see beyond themselves. That they can learn they have many more characteristics. They can be anything. This is…

energy established by the 1939 classic. Sure, there’s plenty of other examples to use, as well – like virtually any sub-par Disney sequel that went straight to video, like Bambi II or The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride. You might as well lump in Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer, too – both of which made desperate attempts to reinvigorate and re-launch…

The comparison of Thomas Putnam's children from his first marriage viewed their stepmother Mary Veren Putnam to that of Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel. Mary Veren Putnam nor her son Joseph were never named witches. Dreams or apparitions were leading people to point the finger and accuse certain persons of witchcraft. "Here are but two parties in the world: The Lamb and his followers, and the…

Have you ever wondered why or how a person could kill or better yet eat another human being? If you have you’re not the only person, over the years people have been puzzled on how a person can slowly develop into such a monster. Some of the questions we ask ourselves are what happen that motivated them to become what they are today? What possessed them to do what they did? Lastly, do all of them share a common characteristic? Before we start talking about the history of one of the most…

A world without literature is an illiterate world. Literature is an art and the word itself is “derived from the Latin litteratura meaning "writing formed with letters," literature most commonly refers to works of the creative imagination, including poetry, drama, fiction, nonfiction, journalism, and in some instances, song” (Lombardi, Esther). “World literature as we know it today would not exist without the nourishment of oral traditions” (Puchner, Martin). Oral traditions are stories of 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…

The Yule Log This is a holiday cake called the Yule Log also known as the Christmas Log or Buche de Noel. This cake that is made at Christmastime dates back to the 19th century. At this time rolled sponge cakes filled with jam or cream and covered with butter cream icing began to be mentioned in European cookbooks. They were usually decorated with marzipan or meringue. The rolled shape of the cake was to remind one of a log and was typically covered with chocolate butter cream to look like the…

such traits. Being herself might mean fighting all those people who tell her to act otherwise, all the while having the joy and pride of being herself: I was once a strawberry in a Hansel and Gretel pageant when I was in nursery school and didn’t have the sense than to dance on my tiptoe with my arms in a circle above my head doing umbrella steps and being a perfect fool just so my mother and father could come dressed up and clap.…