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    focus on the innocence of children, and their interactions with the supernatural. He created a new type of horror films, which are similar in narrative and structure as they are based off of fantasy and gothic aspects. While Labyrinth mixed fairy tales with a war storyline, Devil’s Backbone replaces the fairies with ghosts. Pan 's Labyrinth concerns a little girl named Ofelia who discovers a magical faun that commands her to complete three tasks, each more difficult and terrifying than the…

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    The Handmaid 's Tale provides clear examples of how language can and does influence, control and oppress a society. Names given to individuals…

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    The Miller’s Prologue and Tale. Miller’s Tale The Miller’s tale is one of 24 selected stories from Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The Tales are primarily written in verse, with the author telling tales through observation in which he creates an image of what English society was at the time. This is done through description of stock characters, with the narration being mostly in a pragmatic, satirical tone, but being discreet in doing so. The Canterbury Tales are highly insightful of…

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    In both, The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crate, Margaret Atwood creates societies where government control is omnipresent. The Handmaid’s Tale is set in a future dystopian society named Gilead in which people use their power to take advantage of others. In the novel, all aspects of life are watched by The Eyes. They are everywhere and their presence and identities are unknown. This is a main fear for the public. They are used to create a sense of control over the citizens and are used as…

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    in fairy tales of ‘being cute but essentially helpless’ (1) or constantly needing to be saved by the knight in shining armour from the beginning of the story, such as when we get an insight on the narrator’s sexual awakening. This challenges traditional literature as women’s sexual desires are not often written about in books or stories. Ultimately, Carter challenges negative…

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    The Southwestern tales, which are also known as Hispanic folktales, were first told around the early nineteenth century and are still told today. Presently, the folktales are used to instill moral lessons and the meanings of religions to people of different ages, especially young children. Jose Griego y Maestas collected and presented the tales “Los tres hermanos (The Three Brothers)” and “La comadre Sebastiana (Dona Sebastiana)” in Tales from the Hispanic Southwest. The tale of “Los tres…

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    Saxon time period was a time that included many compositions of middle and old English. Many of which were tales of King Arthur and the like. An author that stands out among the many through the Anglo Saxon era is Geoffrey Chaucer. Chaucer has forever gone down in history for his outstanding work using Middle English in Canterbury Tales. Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty-four tales in which were collected, composed, and written by Chaucer. “Chaucer had all these incentives to write in…

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    The tale of Little Red Riding Hood (categorized as tale type 333--Little Red Riding Hood, or The Glutton) is one known to most children growing up; it is a narrative that has evolved epically throughout its incarnations, but at the center of the story is a story of sexual maturation which cannot be erased. By giving a young girl responsibility, we are able to see what she does with it--that is, by all logic, she squanders it on her own personal gain. The selfishness of the child, as contrasted…

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    irregularity of this fairytale funny and effective. Although the fairy tale is an unconventional one its opens like a traditional fairytale film. There is a big book with elaborate text and the words are being narrated to the audience, like it would if the story was actually being read out loud. This small part of the film is rudely stopped by a character who rips the page of this book…

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    battle that one is fighting can be accomplished with God and the determination like Beowulf. We all have to overcome our own Grendel’s in our lives. One has to adopt Beowulf’s courage and strength to overcome one’s challenges. Similarly, in Canterbury Tales, we can learn a lesson through the experience that the knight faced and his marriage to the elderly lady. After his marriage, even though his life was saved, it was evident that he was unhappy. His wife notices and makes a remark, “Then why,…

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