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Ever After; Cinderella Did you know, in the movie Ever After, the characters are less dimwitted than in the fairy tale “Cinderella”? The movies prince doesn’t need a bird to tell him he has the wrong girl. The movie is better and with characters who actually think. Both the movie and fairy tale are different, but they are also the same. For example, in both stories the father got a new wife along with two new step children. The new children and wife are of course mean to Cinderella…

Upon starting this new unit, I was not excited about researching the controversy of gender. You wouldn’t really think gender would be a controversy but unfortunately, today, it is. After hearing the different ways, I could approach this project, I felt more comfortable. I decided to research my favorite empire, Disney. There has been a lot of debate about how Disney portrays gender in their films and products. I enjoyed finding other opinions on this issue, even if they were against Disney. I,…

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…

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…