Sleeping Woman

starts by talking about Bluebeard and his unfortunate looks, unlike the other tales that start with woman. After asking his neighbor for one of her two daughters’ hands in marriage, the younger finally accepts his offer after seeing all his wealth, even with the knowledge “...that he had already had several wives, and nobody knew what had become of them.” (Perrault 732). Perrault is portraying this woman as not only materialistic, but without good sense. After that, Bluebeard goes on a…

non-threatening power demonstration, elves produce multiple degrees of fear into the inferior, unfortunate humans. Elves use multiple methods to make themselves feared explicitly. Some methods found in folktales include: task requests (cf. The Godmother, Elfin Woman in Childbirth), physical control (cf. Hild Queen of the Elves), and mental control (cf. Albtraum). When elves encounter a problem they cannot solve and humans can, they directly go to humans and force them to oblige. In “The…

right now there are only eleven official disney princesses Cinderella, Snow White, Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty), Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas, Merida, and Rapunzel. And out of those eleven princesses only four of them are not white. Princess Jasmine the first non white princess is supposed to be an Arabian princess from the Middle east, but does not look anything like what a young woman from the Middle East should look like. Instead of having an olive skin tone, Princess…

offering a “happily ever after” fill the children’s aisles at every major retailer. The “Frozen” soundtrack starting with the most recent Disney fantasy featuring two sister princesses, has topped the charts for almost three months. The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, Belle and Snow White are certain to come calling upon your entryway on Halloween. The princess culture- fueled by Disney’s multi-billion-dollar stake in it- has a tight grip on standard girlhood and it is here to stay (Orenstein,…

Willowthaus, the daughter of Hades and Persephone, was a beautiful, strong, and mischievous young woman. She was conceived during the winter months while Persephone was in the underworld with Hades, and then born in the Springtime on Earth while Persephone was with her mother Demeter. Demeter was so happy that Persephone had a child, but feared for what her life would be like in the underworld. After a great deal of reckoning, Persephone agreed to let Willowthaus stay on Earth to be raised by…

Who can’t remember growing up and watching Disney movies as a child? By inspiring children and adults all over the world, Disney is trying to recapture the magic once made by Walt Disney by turning many of the movies in to live action movies, but it has not worked. I think this approach is to sell more of the movies with little to no thought but it is also affecting how young one’s view life and imagination in general. The magic I remember is watching a very beautiful princess singing to…

England, Dawn, Lara Descartes, and Melissa Collier-Meek. "Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses." Sex Roles 64.7/8 (2011): 555-567. Print. Disney’s classic depiction of females as princesses, also infers their submissiveness, inferiority, and fragility in comparison to men’s portrayals as socially, physically, and intellectually dominant. While these roles may change as social proximity to time and space does, these characterizations, split by binaries and marginalized by strict…

portrayed as evil. This difference in the way women are shown can influence the bias that comes later with the assumption of women being sub par to men. Overall, the difference in the depiction of women is evident between these two stories as the view of woman as wicked and virtuous were different as well as the influence of the mother…

appearance and gave a slightly more positive outlook on women unlike the children-eating ogre in Basile story. He showed this by giving the women fairies good powers to lessen the evil of the malicious fairy and or queen. There is another version of Sleeping Beauty and it is the most modern of the written ones. Little Brier-Rose by the Grimm brothers is well-liked because the improved erotic elements of the tale. Fairy tales intended for the modern century, modify and attempt to correctly…

Anna Anderson: The Eerily Similar Imposter of Anastasia On a chilly fall day in 1997, people crowded the ticket booths in order to purchase their seat for the new animated film, Anastasia. The award-winning Warner Bros. film Anastasia was released November 21, 1997, featuring actress, Meg Ryan as the voice of the famous Grand Duchess Anastasia. The movie told the fascinating story of the Russian siege of 1918 and how a former friend of the Romanov family, Grigori Rasputin cursed the whole line…