Sleeping bag

As a child, did you dream of being a princess or a queen when you grow up? When you start growing up, parents read you bedtime stories about princes and fairies; all unrealistic things. Monsters were part of the tales told, like Grendel, dragons, and demons found in Beowulf. Then you grow out of all of the fake thoughts and think realistically. You start to dream of real occupations you can acquire and think about life from a different point of view. Although we grew up with these illusions of…

People tend to organize their knowledge about the world by simplifying the information received leading them to create certain representations of people. In other words “the world is socially constructed and represented to and by us. However according to Chris Barker “meanings do not ‘float in the air’; meanings have materiality that is embedded in objects, images, television programs. The meanings we make of a certain event or cultural practice depend on how it is represented” (in class lecture…

causing immense envy in her, the Queen demanded a huntsman to murder her. Fortunately, the huntsman spared her life, and the princess was able to escape to a cottage in the woods. Nevertheless, the Wicked Queen managed to put Snow White under the Sleeping Death. (“Snow White…

Setting: Kleo is Born into the Red African tribe (RE-AKa) that is enslaved by the flourishing neighbor region Nabi. King Narok’s rule over both lands is absolute. King Narok is a tyrant that fosters inequality and hardship for the Re-aka tribe. Unfair taxes, famine, and diseases plague the Re-Aka tribe. Background: Kleo Night was born into the Re-Aka tribe also known as the Red tribe. She was born to mother Akira Lu and Father Kutiin Na. Her mother is a beauty that even the mystical spirits…

Reading Journal 1 It seems to get ahead within the world of the Grimm’s tales, one must be good. To be more specific, characters who seem pure, innocent, righteous, and virtuous seem to get ahead. On the other hand, those who seem greedy, cruel, or self-interested seem to be portrayed as villainous. Also, most heroes within these stories, seem to be intelligent, or at least smarter than the villains. However, in some stories this concept does not seem to be present. In today’s world, most…

Report on Search Procedures From when I was a little girl I have always enjoyed watching Disney films, especially Disney princess films. I love watching action and adventure movies, but i've always had enjoyed a good Disney movie. The older I got the more I was exposed to people's opinions, good and bad, about Disney's films. Society began to criticize the films for being white washed and sexist. I never once thought that to be true of a Disney movie, but after reading articles and looking at a…

Bruno Bettelheim and Jill P. May view the illustrations of “Little Red Riding Hood” differently due to their different ways of looking at things. Bettelheim looks at the illustration through a psychoanalytic view while May observes through a critical theorist viewpoint. Since Bettelheim approaches “Little Red Riding Hood” in a psychoanalytic way, he believes the key moment is when Little Red Riding Hood is in bed with the wolf. Bettelheim looks at the fairy tale through a psychoanalytic view…

so hard as a servant in her own home, but still earn disrespectful and ignorance from stepmother. Cinderella sees a man stealing her father’s horse while she’s collecting apples and she threw him with an apple. The man was prince and he gives her a bag of gold in exchange for her silence. And she decides to use the money to rescue their servant, whom the stepmother has sold to pay her debts (Wiki 2015). When the stepmother finds out that Cinderella rescues the servant, she beat her to dead. But…

Some mentors are better than others, whether it be fairy godmothers, trees, or even cows! Some can be Good or evil and living or nonliving.The mentor is different throughout all cultures and it reveals how that culture does things differently than others. The mentors are also very different from the French and Russian Cinderella stories. Social necessities are what dictate the mentors. It shows how the people act and how the different social classes are supposed to act. The Russian and the…

For the presentation, my group decided to discuss the question, “Do Carter's fairy tales challenge or reinforce patriarchal constructions of female sexuality?” - a question stemming from Dunker’s remark that “Carter is rewriting the tales within the straitjacket of their original structures. [She merely] reproduces the original, rigidly sexist psychology of the erotic”. This question interested us as it allowed my group to further explore Feminism, a subject matter that we studied in our first…