Snow White

"The figures in fairy tales are not ambivalent-not good and bad at the same time, as we all are in reality. But since polarization dominates the child's mind, it also dominates fairy tales" (Bettelheim 9). The purpose of a fairytale is to teach morals in a memorable way. One way to ensure that it is memorable is to include dark, scary characters. The appearance of the characters is essential. Beauty is an important characteristic in fairytales and the bad characters are indicated by being ugly…

The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids By the Grimm Brothers There was once upon a time an old goat who had seven little kids, and loved them with all the love of a mother for her children. One day she wanted to go into the forest and fetch some food. So she called all seven to her and said, "Dear children, I have to go into the forest, be on your guard against the wolf, if he comes in, he will devour you all - skin, hair, and everything. The wretch often disguises himself, but you will know him…

The tale of the Little Red Riding Hood has transformed over time being passed down from generation to generation. The version of these two tales most everyone knows is the innocent story we once heard as children known as The Little Red Cap, a short story by the Grimm Brothers. Although there are innocent versions of this tale there are also versions that could be considered to be more scandalous, such as Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves. Throughout history there have been many different…

made a similar decision. The creation of glass slippers showed his prowess as an animator, proving that he could draw difficult items. Glass is not an easy thing to draw, because it is transparent. Also, this shoe fit the color scheme of light blue/white that he created for the film. Through analyzing these decisions, it becomes clear that Walt Disney was more concerned with strengthening his reputation and…

a tree that she had planted on her mother’s grave. The Chinese version receives her clothes by breaking the pot she had placed her mother’s bones in. The Disney and the German version do have some similarities while the Chinese is still different. These variations both have it to where Cinderella loses her glass slipper on the stairs while running out from the ball before everything disappears. The Chinese has it to wear she loses her shoe on the road while riding her horse and that is when the…

For this paper I chose the character Link from The Legend of Zelda series. I am going to be mostly be going off the title The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, therefore my examples and explanations will also be from that title. Link is the main protagonist in all The Legend of Zelda games. At the beginning of Links life he was left with the Deku Tree, at the Kokiri Forest by his mother because of the war that had been going on at that time. Link was raised with the Kokiri. The Kokiri forest…

The Brothers Grimm Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm opened their notebooks and wrote down the original story of Cinderella. What they didn’t know was that it would be changed and read all over the world by young children and inspire them. For ages we thought we knew these wonderful, bright and happy fairy tales, but they were a lot darker than they appear to be today. In the original story of Cinderella, or the original title The Little Glass Slipper, a widowed prince had a daughter and named her…

Howl’s Moving Castle On September 7, 2015 I went to the art department’s film festival where they played the popular anime movie, “Howl’s Moving Castle.” Once everyone was seated and the art department people fixed some bugs in their system, they began with a brief, yet descriptive power point show on the history of anime’s progression and its impact on Japanese culture. The representatives said that anime grew into almost a lifestyle in the 20th century in Asia, Europe, and America. After…

It is now a known fact that throughout time women have been represented in a sort of negative light. Much of the literature of the past has given women a minimal role. It was not until around the turn of the twentieth century that the role of women has evolved. This is when women characters started becoming more powerful as they were now being seen as the hero. The literary images of women have changed dramatically over centuries to reach where they currently are. One story that can provide a…

When a mother’s child is insulted, her love for her kid becomes apparent as she slowly morphs into an enormous, hairy, sharp toothed, mama bear. She has become defensive over her child, and is ready to attack at any moment. Arthur Miller, author of the play, The Crucible gives the character, John Proctor the same aura as a mama bear, or for his sake, a masculine manly bear. Proctors’ integrity, dishonesty, defensiveness and hot temper helps to build Miller’s storyline. The argument Miller…