The Happy Prince and Other Tales

fairy tales, the expectations of beauty and romance that are woven into the story are absorbed by the children viewing them. Children pick up on these ideals and quite often try to translate them into reality. Fairy tales, such as the one’s produced by Disney, often contain a magical romance with characters as magically beautiful as their love. However, these high expectations of love, beauty and happiness are unobtainable in our everyday world and leave children disheartened that their expectations of their body-image and love have not attained these unreasonable standards as they grow older. These expectations of body image, love, and happiness stem from infeasible beauty standards, magical romance, and living happily ever after…

females. Cinderella’s impact on growing girls is enormous because it is the biggest of the three “Big Girl Tales” and it is embedded in the heart of our culture in regards to how little girls should grow to view themselves (Thomas, Tammis). The subliminal impacts of “Cinderella” on the minds of female children encourage passivity and place an emphasis on a “Prince” who is supposed to save them from their circumstances. The driving point that led to “Cinderella” as the tale for my radical…

Fairy tales are a work of fiction and children are fully aware of that. Taking the fairy tales away from the pre-school and kindergarten students would be wrong because it takes away their chance of developing creative minds and becoming creative thinkers. Children have grown up on these stories for age and should continue to grow up on them because the stories teach children life lessons. (Orde) Fairytales can teach children lessons like manors, helping people, and being courageous in a fun and…

How many movies and tv shows have you seen that end in happy endings? Almost all of them. Fairy tales have impacted movies ,both old and new, greatly. The Cinderella story specifically and others written by the Grimm brothers have affected movies by creating the concept of happy endings, that good always triumphs over evil, and that social status can be easily changed by marriage. Almost every movie we’ve ever seen has some type of happy ending. If you think back to any of the fairy tales you…

popular folk tale where a common girl goes from rags to riches. The story of Cinderella has received some criticism because Cinderella is too passive and has a man save her from her suffering. Revisions of traditional folk tales have become popular. Some authors do it to give it a modern day twist and have it reflect modern day society. Cinderella is one those stories that has slowly become modernizes with a feministic approach. The two Walt Disney versions Campbell Grant’s Cinderella and the…

“Grimm Brothers’ Tales” are the gruesome backstories to some of Disney’s well-known Princesses. The tales are based on German folk legends retold by the authors Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The tales themselves follow exceedingly descriptive themes. The themes include: Premarital Sex, Graphic violence, Child abuse, Wicked Mothers, Incest, and Rape. Themes are shown throughout the story for emphasis on the situations throughout the plot. The brothers’ have had many collections of stories to come out.…

The Truth behind Fairy Tales Fairy tales were designed to draw us out of our everyday lives into magical lands filled with possibilities that excite and expand the imagination. These fictional stories come from all cultures, and many of them have their own versions. Fairy tales were originally told for children, but often they seem to have been used to teach a valuable lesson to everyone. For example, the classic tale of “Cinderella” was told to teach that people should always fight for what…

Have you ever been offered a bribe in return of a sexual encounter? Or have you ever felt tempted to accept a bribe for any other desired benefits? Our society has all kinds of people, those who are willing to accept a bribe in exchange for anything, and those who would not. Nonetheless, the poem, “Hazel Tells Laverne,” tells a story about a person who refuses a bribe. The poem, published in 1976, is about a maid named Hazel who finds a frog in the toilet. The frog tells her that he could turn…

happened, but, If we were to read the story as a fairy tale we would have probably believed that it was magic which led him to forming into a bug. Gregory turning…

Fairy Tales The topic of this research paper is to explore the Grimm Fairy Tales in pop culture, the disneyfication of the Grimm’s Fairy Tales as well as feminism of princesses in modern adaptations of the tales movies. The authors were two brothers from Germany, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The brothers are well known for their collection of fairy tales but many people don’t know the origins of the stories they wrote. A lot of people know the stories because of Walt Disney but they don’t…