Sleeping Woman

In Beowulf, there are inferences about women and how they were treated in Anglo-Saxon society. Beowulf is an eponymous text about a Geat warrior who goes to save the Danes from monsters plaguing their lives. The main story may center around Beowulf, but by looking deeper into the text itself there are hints about Anglo-Saxon society. The lack of any documents from the Dark Ages make it difficult to identify key elements of any cultures who existed during that time. Lore passed down from those…

In Rosalind Wiseman’s essay “Queen Bee and Her Court”, she specified various roles played in social cliques. In the essay, she states “cliques are sophisticated, complex, and multilayered, and every girl has a role within them.” This demonstrates that although it may seem cliques are very simple, they are actually very conglomerate. In social cliques there are positive and negative roles that a person can have. The sidekick is a negative role; whereas, the floater is a positive role. There are…

As said in Beauty and The Beast, “Beauty’s sisters sickened with envy… could all her(Beauty) obliging affectionate behavior stifle their jealousy.”(Beaumont). In addition to, it is a type of motif portrayed in stories such as Beauty and The Beast, Rumpelstiltskin and many others. The different types of themes portrayed in these stories are what make them popular. Greed can make you a selfish human being is a theme shown in the real world. In Beauty and the Beast, it says, “... when they(the…

In conclusion, through Bluestone’s theories, film adaptations from text will never be the same. There will always be one factor or the other that causes it to be different. It is first and foremost a different art form and one that is very different. Moreover, art has always derived from other art source. For example, Gerard Rabcinan, Little Red Riding Hood(2003), Kiki Smith, Daughter (1999) in art as paintings to advertisements posters in Colombia. One similarity they all share is the motifs.…

Laurel -the subject of the poem and main character- is quite intriguing to say the least. The reason I chose to do this poem on her is because she underwent through so much character development during the course of the book. However, throughout the book she maintains four strong character traits: naivety, strength, eloquence, and spontaneity. She is the sister of May, who is now deceased. The reason she is "the fairy with broken wings" is because Laurel enjoys talking about how she and May used…

popular from Homer's epic "The Odyssey." Which creature is it? a. Medusa b. Goblins c. banshees d. Mermaids 5. This is a (fill in the blank) in Ireland who will wail outside a home to warn of an imminent death of a family member. a. beautiful woman b. female…

reading fairy tales, even though most adults think she is too old for such activity and ask her to stop. Because of the death of her father, an modest tailor who probably died in the civil war, and the remarriage of her mother, a calm and reserved woman, she moves to the military camp of his stepfather, an authoritarian and sadistic general who kills everyone who stands in his way without any mercy and the future father of her younger brother. In the forest nearly the camp she finds a labyrinth…

my continued love of Disney, especially into adulthood, I have noticed changes in the stories and in the character development between the older classic films and the modern day marvels. An example of this is how Aurora, the title character, from Sleeping Beauty has approximately twenty lines of dialogue in the entire film and is a static character, but more modern day Disney films show the “Princess” as the main character who goes through dramatic character development during the course of the…

Merla was a princess looking for a friend, atop a tower guarded by a dragon. It was all an act, however. Merla, as an abused child, had run off and hid with the dragon, who was like a best friend to her. The dragon was nameless, a fine beast that everyone tried to slay. But not Jasper. Jasper, a kind mother, was out for a walk with her child, Quiver, in the deep woods where Merla’s tower was. Quiver ran ahead and got lost. Jasper panicked, searched, and ended up at the tower where Merla hid.…

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…