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    Seven Dwarfs, the prince wasn’t given a name? But in Sleeping Beauty, the prince’s name was Prince Phillip. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty have some similarities and differences. They were both put to sleep by the antagonist and woken up by a kiss but in different ways. Both of the princesses were beautiful and smart. Snow white had skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. Sleeping Beauty had blonde hair. Sleeping Beauty was cursed as a child by the 13th evil…

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    tracksuit, Katie came out cheerful with her princess. Outside the New Victoria Theatre, the 37 year old, Katie was pictured in black jersey tracksuit. She has been playing the part of wicked fairy in the movie, Sleeping Beauty. The pair of black suits and chick wobble hat was enhancing her beauty. Her daughter, a princess, of eight in tow was walking close to her mother. She was wearing the green trainers and a funky jersey. She was holding a bag of arts and crafts in her arms. In 2012, Katie’s…

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    be the bad guys of cartoons, movies, and tv shows. Villains such as Cruella de Vil, the Big Bad Wolf, the Joker, and a large number of others, are the ones that antagonize a story. Captain Hook antagonizes Peter Pan, who is his arch enemy. In Sleeping Beauty, Maleficent is known as “the mistress of evil”, she earns this name when she curses the infant Aurora. A third villain is Scar from the Lion King, who kills his own brother out of jealousy. Villains are known for their evil proceedings,…

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    When analyzing The Little Mermaid, Giroux holds Ariel under scrutiny with her relationship with the men in her life and how her perfect body might lead little girls to idealize unhealthy body standards for themselves. Giroux describes Ariel as “modeled after a slightly anorexic Barbie Doll,” due to her slim figure, large breasts, and wide eyes, all which seems like too much for a sixteen year old. The two main male relationships that Ariel has are between her father, King Triton, and her love…

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    The Disney princess franchise, created by Andy Mooney, has been watched and adored by families around the world for decades, but in the rise of modern day feminism and the eradication of gender roles Disney’s interpretation of women is starting to raise a few eyebrows. It has become evident that girls are starting to act more mature at a much younger age which leads to them being sexualized. Considering young girls obsession with Disney princesses many parents are left wondering if the Disney…

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    Fairy-tale Sleeping Beauty where the princess [Princess Aurora] fell into deep slumber due to a curse and the only way for her curse to be cured is, apparently, by a kiss of her true love, which in this case, somehow happens to be the son of some king [Prince Phillip]. In the article, ‘Mum asks school to take Sleeping Beauty off curriculum’, Sarah Hall protested that it, “promotes unacceptable behavior, which shouldn’t be read by young children… the specific issue in the Sleeping Beauty story is…

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    rich guy after facing some obstacles that prevent them from being together. The Beauty and the Beast by Beaumont doesn’t stray from the typical fairytale outline, but is there more to the happily ever after then meets the eye? Almost all fairytales end with a happily ever after, but is it just a mask to hide the real plot from the readers? In The Beauty and the Beast by Beaumont we come to an ending where the Beauty falls in love with the Beast, but was it a guilt free love or was there a wicked…

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    The Disney-fication of the Jenne Marie LePrince de Beaumont’s version of Beauty and the Beast is amazing in how she manipulated the elements of the story to change the mood. I wish I could change the mood as easily as Jenne Marie LePrince de Beaumont did. Disney’s version of “Beauty and the Beast” changed Jenne Marie LePrince de Beaumont mood from depressed to joyous. There are many examples of how Disney changed mood, through the words and conflict. First, the change in mood is shown…

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    The famous fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast originated from the French story, La Belle et la Bete, written by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve in 1740. In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, a French novelist, shortened the fairy tale and revised it to be appropriate for children. Gabrielle-Suzanne's original version of Beauty and the Beast was over 300 pages and included the history of the characters, several dream sequences, and complex subplots, which Jeanne-Marie removed. Despite…

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    Beaumont originally wrote “Beauty and the Beast”, a famous fairy-tale in 1756. It tells the story of Beauty, an admirable and “handsome” girl, who ends up in the palace of a Beast where she falls in love with him after he catches Beauty’s father stealing his roses to give to Beauty. Since then, Angela Carter, who is known for her rewrites of old fairy tales, wrote “The Tiger’s Bride”, which was published in 1979. Her version provides a unique twist on the original tale, where Beauty is a young…

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