Sleeping Beauty

The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces Analysis Although this story has been made into several other movies and books including a Barbie Movie (The Twelve Dancing Princesses), the original Grimm’s Fairytale version will be the subject of this analysis. The original story was published in 1857 in the Kinder und Hausmarchen book. This tale both enforces and disputes several stereotypes and contains one violent part. While reading, the story is enhanced by these stereotypes and violent section…

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…

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…

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 acknowledge. Akira’s origins are unknown but she has supernatural powers. For some reason the lands move and bend for her as if it adores her.She and Kutin fall in love and bare Kleo Na; the child of prophecy who is…

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…

Innocent Beauties and Their Monsters There are many fairy tales that have discussed in this class. And the most interested stories from these fairy tales are Snow White by Brother Grimm and Ever After: A Cinderella Story directed by Andy Tennant based on Cinderella by Charles Perrault. There are many different version of Snow White and Cinderella from different culture. However both of these stories are known as children bed time story and they are very famous around the world. In addition, the…

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…