Little Red Riding Hood

Social background and culture no doubt are the major factors affecting story elements. This paper will compare how social background and culture affect the way of expression in Western and Chinese children’s fantasy literature when two stories having the same elements, by comparing Cinderella and Ye Xian(葉限). Ye Xian is a Chinese fairy tale written by Duan Chengshi(段成式) in Tang dynasty compilation Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang(酉陽雜俎). It is one of the oldest known variants of Cinderella,…

World War II as C.S. Lewis mentioned in his book. He wrote the book of chronicles of Narnia The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrope in a way based on his characterization. By reading the book and watching the movie, we can see that the author loved little children as he put them as characters of the story. He also…

inspired black dresses with form fitting bodices, accentuated waistlines, loose straight skirts, poet style sleeves and hoods to provide a cloak like effect. The outfit in general will blend in with the time period. By dressing them this…

Forest Name: Quiet Ash Grove (Devil's Playground, Faustian Forest) Riding I: The Prowling Wolf, He is Caring __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Winters in Jump City, California were rarely bothersome and cruel, quite the opposite in fact. By night, when the shadows ruled the land, small flakes of snow would fall from dark clouds above, and bless the earth with its magnificent beauty and form. Water would freeze…

Fairy tales are often pictured as the stories parents would be reading at bedtime to their children before going to sleep. Mostly made of extraordinary features and starting with the famous “Once Upon a Time” are the stereotypes of fairy tales. Actually, the term fairy tales comes directly from French that is literally translated from contes de fées. In 1698, Countess Aulnoy initiated the use of the term “Contes de Fées” for the title of a book, and others writers started using the same term…

The second “wolf” in this story is drastically subtler than the outwardly terrifying worm creature, this wolf is less physical and more conceptual. This ferocious and terrifying “wolf” is the universally known terrible feeling that we call grief. Grief is defined as “keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret.” This definition fits perfectly with the story presented in Emily Carroll’s “Through the Woods” in the short story “The Nesting Place”. Our…

Little red cap is the original story and hoodwinked is the fractured story. What make hoodwinked a fairy tale is that it is linked with little red cap and is not the same but the main features are changed for example granny in hoodwinked is active and all about living life and in the little red cap she is sick in bed. Some of the massive differences is that the recipes are being stolen, that red is a bit mouthy, no one dies in hoodwinked. Some of the things that are similar is that there is a…

When examining "Snow White" from an Archetypal perspective, it becomes clear that this fairytale symbolizes curiosity, death, and freedom. These main topics are specifically shown through the use of animals. When analyzing the symbols, many come into affect. The three animals that visited Snow White’s coffin could represent many different things. The order that the animals arrived in is the base of the pattern for this fairytale. When the owl visits, it could symbolize the need for knowledge…

Within sections 13 and 22 of Briar Rose, the author establishes a sense of parallelism by adding a meta aspect to them. During both sections, the crone retells the Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty to Briar Rose. As the crone continues with the story, she adds and takes details out of the story, adjusting it for her audience, Briar Rose, causing the story to feel “vaguely reassuring...[but] unlike a happy ending” (Coover 13). Due to the crone’s addition or subtraction to the story, she…

Diverse Society Every culture contains different key aspects which makes it absolutely difficult to compare one to another. With diversity there is an infinite amount of possibilities in the world. In “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell explains what would happen if a single culture believed their ways were superior to all other cultures. She uses the vastly different cultures of humans and wolves to describe the controversial predicament. Claudette, the main character…