Operation Snow White

The reading questions and discussion boards were particularly important in helping me analyze and research especially for my RA. For example, this particular question made me ponder upon several things until I researched and found something interesting to use for my RA. “George Cruikshank – “Cinderella and the Glass Slipper” Q: The stepmother is portrayed as proud, selfish and extravagant which makes her unjust and cruel, in contrast to Cinderella whose “disposition was even better than her…

my parents who are just infatuated with Japanese culture. They say they named me after the snow that fell the day I was born. I also have a white cat who so happens to have the name of Shiro. What are the odds? Considering the cat is older than me by a year, I often wonder with their terrible naming sense if they named me after a cat. Of course they franticly insist that I was named after the pure white snow on that day and by no means after a cat. I mean they do realize that we live in the age…

character that affects the princesses life in a dramatic way. Some stories that were compared were Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Tangled, Cinderella, The Little Mermaid, Rapunzel, both the original story…

The story of The Three Spinners is a well-known Grimm fairytale. Number 14 of 211 stories and legends, and only three pages long, it is often overlooked. If you have not heard this story, it goes like this: a lazy girl was beaten by her mother for not spinning flax. The Queen took notice. Her mother lied to the Queen saying the girl wouldn’t stop spinning. The Queen took the girl to her castle where she gave the girl three rooms full of flax to spin. Then told her when she spins it all she will…

Howl’s Moving Castle is a love story about a young girl, Sophie, who finds herself getting cursed by a witch, and a wizard, Howl. There are many clichés about Japanese films that people associate with them, but the artistic yet effective messages and pictures throughout the film make it a must see for any movie lover. Although this movie falls into the animated film category, it is a bit different. It was created through a series of drawn pictures that were put together to make the movie.…

articles, they discuss the aspect of innocence the victims of the tricksters have. In Tatar she mentions Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of the series The Hunger Games, to have “compassionate intensity and sexual innocence” (465). In Gilbert and Gubar Snow White‘s “absolute chastity, her frozen innocence, her sweet nullity” are what compose her innocence (390). However, despite both articles discussing how the characters portray innocence Tatar and Gilbert and Gubar idea of innocence are…

women. Snow White is a story essentially centered around women and regularly depicts them in uncomplimentary ways. Anne Sexton 's contemporary adaptation "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" depicts the shortcoming and diverse parts of the slightness of women. Anne Sexton 's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and Brothers Grimm "Snow White" both depict beauty as a vital component of their story. All through the Brothers Grimm "Snow White", beauty is depicted as the most valuable commodity. Snow…

“A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her”(Hosseini 355). A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, is a story centered around Mariam and Laila, two Afghani women. Mariam’s Nana told her “each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. As a reminder of how women like us suffer. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us” (Hosseini 82). Each has…

No matter what version of Sleeping Beauty people is familiar with, whether it’s the Brothers Grimm or the well known Disney version, everyone is very familiar with the basic story of how a young princess is cursed to prick her finger and die when she turns sixteen, but is saved by a fairy who turns her death into a deep sleep that lasts 100 years, until the day a prince comes to her rescue. But in the case of “ The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” by Charles Perrault, once the prince has woken the…

Whilst The Hobbit offers a Western interpretation of good and evil, Le Guin’s The Wizard of Earthsea propose an alternative perspective of what good and evil entail. These two worlds differ in many different ways. For example, the landscape of the Hobbit tends to resemble that of Europe and all the characters tend to be described with European colouring. Whereas Earthsea is a mixture of islands that house “isolated communities”, the cultures and people of each islands ranging from “pale haired…