Sleeping Woman

Have you ever been treated like no one wants you? Well, Cinderella has a pretty good idea of what it's like. In her story she is being mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Anastasia, and Drizella. In both the Disney's version and the Grimm's version she feels this way. As she tries her best to please them it seems that it's just not good enough, but with a little help her dreams can come true. While some similarities between Disney's Cinderella and Grimm's Cinderella are evident, the…

Cinderella Fairy tales are not what most of the world thinks they are. Quite a few of them are horrifying and gruesome but all of the stories have a specific meaning to them just like any other. In more ways than one, “The fairy tale demonstrates what it meant to be beautiful and heroic and how to achieve “royal” status with the help of grace and good fortune”(Zipes 4). Many of these stories have stood up against the test of time due to ethnic groups using storytelling to recover history and…

Two-Man Luge, without a question, is a fairy tale! Claire Battershill’s “Two-Man Luge” displays strong evidence towards the famously known fairy tale, Cinderella. Two-Man Luge possesses a similar structure and several factors that give readers’ thoughts just as fairy tales would, like the famous “happily ever after”. Throughout the centuries Fairy Tales have provided a specific design for authors to follow and for audiences to react. “Two-Man Luge” is an unintentional Fairy Tale that does just…

Tales. Their collection of legends has entertained families for years and continues to be prevalent in any time period and culture. Walt Disney Studios contributed to this popularity with the films Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. In addition to these films, other stories, like Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, and Rumpelstiltskin, originate from Kinder- und Hausmärchen. Fairy tales are shared by all ages, but with little consideration to their history. High…

decades, Disney has given its viewers the fantasy of living in a world of castles, princes and the luxury of being a royalty. Recognized classic Disney princesses include Snow White (Snow White and the Seven Dwarves), Cinderella (Cinderella), Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Ariel (The Little Mermaid), Belle (Beauty and the Beast), Jasmine(Aladdin), Pocahontas (Pocahontas) and Mulan (Mulan). The first three of which were released during the first-wave of feminism while the latter five were all released…

“You said we’ll play the Prince saving the Princess today!” “But we already played that yesterday, Lena.” “Yesterday it was the dragon that kidnapped the princess but today the bad Black Magician will kidnap her.” “Kidnapping again?” “Come on, Leon. You said you’ll play with me!” “How about we play other games? I got a new lego set here.” “Wuu, wuu. Leon, you’re a liar! Wuuu!” “But, but, I’ve been playing with dolls for days!” “Wuu, wuu, wuu!” “Quiet down,…

Vergil continues to describe the image “the mother wolf stretched out in the green grotto of Mars, twin boys at her dugs.” (8.617-619) Here, he alludes to the legendary, oft-admired founder of Rome, Romulus, and his brother Remus, who were, as the quote describes, allegedly abandoned and cared for by a wolf. Although he does not specifically use their names, it is important to note that the phrase “twin boys” would most likely immediately evoke this specific myth in the minds of his audience -…

intellectual curiosity and a passion for books—they are isolated in a small town that only pretends to accept anyone who is different. In Brewsterville, James is viewed not as a human being, but as a freak, while Peggy is seen not as a living, breathing woman, but as a functionary, a useful piece of furniture, as she comments with some…

How does a traditional fairytale typically end? Yes, with happily-ever-after. In the original version of Cinderella, we are met with a young girl who is complacent to her life, and only breaks free from it and finds her happiness when a prince appears. Then the story ends, Cinderella and her prince are forever seen frozen in their happily ever after. Anne Sexton’s poem Cinderella presents us with the question of why society views Cinderella as the ultimate fairytale of happily ever after.…

morning I woke up to a horrible surprise. While asleep this kid in my tent wet the bed for some duration of time that allowed the piss to soak through his sleeping bag and into the tent where it soaked into my duffel bag. This was the nastiest thing I have ever experienced. I couldn 't believe how much this 11 year old kid could piss while sleeping. My whole duffel was soaked and I didn 't want to touch anything in that tent. The other kids in that tent somehow avoided anything being soaked with…