The Snow Queen

of women is directly tied to her relationships with men. In the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the role of the looking glass is to allow Snow White’s stepmother to gain truth of her questions, which the literary website SurLaLune interprets as the male gaze, which objectifies the woman. However, this interpretation is viewing the Stepmother’s hatred to be jealousy of Snow White’s beauty as a method to gain men. This is a one dimensional argument because it does…

Whoosh! It's snowing outside! Don't you just love snow! But, did you know that there is more to these little specks of white. Although, snowflakes are very mysterious things. They don't come very often. Snowflakes are very unique because they are all different shapes and sizes, they are mistaken to be built with more than six sides, and there are many myths about them. First of all, snowflakes can be very wondrous. According to " Snow Day!" no two snowflakes are alike. Each one has its…

No matter what version of Sleeping Beauty people is familiar with, whether it’s the Brothers Grimm or the well known Disney version, everyone is very familiar with the basic story of how a young princess is cursed to prick her finger and die when she turns sixteen, but is saved by a fairy who turns her death into a deep sleep that lasts 100 years, until the day a prince comes to her rescue. But in the case of “ The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood,” by Charles Perrault, once the prince has woken the…

Alice’s crochet game with the Queen of Hearts is suggestive of young children’s process of learning to self-sooth and tame their anger. The Queen is a woman in a position of influence, suggesting that anger and sadness are powerful and consuming emotions. The Queen soon throws a fit, “Off with her head!” (Carroll 96). This symbolizes the upheaval of Alice’s emotions are in and her struggles to control…

Archetypes are elements of certain emotional complexes found in the unconscious minds of all human beings, charged with the potential for good and evil. This very theory is depicted in literature which expression and form pertain formal patterns of meanings from dreams, myths, and legends. A theory that comes up in stories that we read or movies that we have seen highlights the components of a good tale through the use of character development, setting, and moral lesson. Critics and proponents…

In Jan Svankmajer’s film Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland shows a surreal story of a girl whose put into her dreams. In the film, Alice attempts to find something to do. Her last hope is using her imagination. She was depressed with her life at the moment. Svankmajer was excellently brought Alice a very simple but creative mind in imagining a wonderland for herself as a way to escape to where she was. The wonderland first started with very simple and daily objects such as dishes, dolls, the house…

Alice in Wonderland (2010) is an American fantasy movie, which was directed by Tim Burton, and was written by Linda Woolvertoon. It is a loose retelling of Lewis Carroll’s fantasy novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865). This essay will describe, compare and contrast two of the many characters in Alice in Wonderland. Alice Kingsleigh is a blonde-haired and brown-eyed girl whose original size is small, however her size changes depending on what type of Underland’s foods she eats. She is…

Day 56 I. Revision • Tell which of the sentences are masculine, feminine and neutral gender: 1. Queen bee rests in her beehive. 2. One shoe is missing. 3. Earth rotates around the sun. 4. She is a very kind princess. 5. The waiter was very patient. 6. Akbar was the great Mughal emperor. 7. That is a pretty glowing jar. 8. There stand a beautiful black horse. 9. Peter is a great doctor. 10. The bed is round in shape. II. Importance of sharing and caring When you are caring towards someone, it…

Shakespeare’s prolific story of star crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, stands as one of the world’s most recognizable plays. It has spun out countless reincarnations and parodies so each time a new director sets forth to produce the play, he must consider how to craft a show that is inventive yet still authentic to the source material. Adrian Noble’s 1995 production of Romeo and Juliet evoked a more lighthearted tone than traditionally seen in productions. Instead of depicting the tragedy of two…

and if there “is there any queen at all in it?” (Drafts in Facsimile 15) The search for the queen bee in the poem is evidently a true event as told by Plath in her journals. Without Plath’s real life experience, perhaps there would not be the metaphor of the queen bee. The queen bee and the speaker of the poem become fused together as one. This fusion occurs succeeding the significant search for the queen. Van Dyne believes that Plath’s creation and search for the queen is a “search for an…