Twice-Told Tales

I am certain that everyone can name numerous fairy tales. The most popular ones such as “Cinderella”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, and “Beauty and the Beast” are well known among the young and the elderly with a slight difference due to the various versions. The fairy tales that the elderly know are generally dark and disturbing while the most recent ones are happy and fantasy like. They attract more the little girls who want to be pretty princesses. In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë does not seem to…

choice" inform your reading in any two works you have studied? Thesis Statement: In The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood and 1984 by George Orwell, the concept of freedom of choice is informative as it enables readers to consider the restrictions of a dystopian society, thus allowing greater understanding of the main characters, Offred and Winston. 1. Topic Sentence: In The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, readers can clearly see the limits and restrictions that Offred faces in the…

three works you have studied. Thesis Statement: In The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood and 1984 by George Orwell, contrast allows readers to observe a clear representation of two opposite characters or situations and identify the main differences, thus enhancing the major theme of oppression in both dystopian societies. Contrast is used to identify the differences between two subjects. 1. Topic Sentence: In The Handmaid 's Tale by Margaret Atwood, contrast can be observed when viewing…

Similarly, these tales share similar fragments of plot where the character Shrek, in both Steig’s “Shrek!” and Anderson’s Shrek, journey to get a princess, encounter a donkey, slay a dragon in pursuing a princess, and marry the princess. In both “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and Shrek the rescuer saves the princess and marries her and each story includes a villainous character that tries to hurt the princess for his/her own gain, as Lord Farquaad desired to become king by marrying Fiona and the…

AW LAP TOPIC 4 A butterfly to come out of its cocoon it has to fully grown and finally be free from it. Freedom is the key to the door, once the key goes into the keyhole the door opens and sets one to be open to everything. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Edna Pontellier is seen as a woman who is trapped and can’t get out of her comfort zone. Two women, Adele Ratignolle and Madame Reisz, came into her life and influenced her to become more open about herself and express who she really is.…

Hollow Change "You can't marry a man you just met." (“Frozen”). Pretty sound advice really, yet odd to hear it come from Disney of all places. Don't get me wrong, Disney isn't a bad company. There aren't many other businesses in the world that can achieved the global recognizability and influence of the Disney company. With hands in more countries than we can truly know and a small army of genre defining and societal dominating works, they're a producing powerhouse and a cultural juggernaut.…

Narrative structure This book is a story about a family going on a bear hunt. Gamble and Yates (2013, p. 69) explain that narrative structure of a story contains two elements such as the story plot and how the story has been conveyed. The book started with a fiction theme of going on a journey of hunting a bear (where the events are plausible), as soon as they venture the bear, the story turns in to fantasy (Gamble & Yates, 2013, p. 80). By switching between the two genres, the author has…

Everything is not always the way it seems, and a person’s true identity cannot be seen with the eye. This applies in both Chaucer’s Wife Of Bath’s Tale and Gardner’s Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, both in which a knight’s honor is tested and their true identity revealed. In Chaucer’s tale, a knight who has raped a maiden is put on trial, and instead of being punished he is given the task to find out what women most desire. He travels all over and asks every woman, but he could not find the…

“The Girl Who Howled Human” Wolves are loyal, compassionate, and would do anything for the ones they love. And, humans on the other hand? Not so much. In the story, “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, Claudette, the narrator, through the so-called ‘stages of human development’ by adapting to human culture from lycanthropy , and soon acquired the ways of homo sapiens lifestyle and the many differences in the civilizations. This story is about her and the rest of the…

Magical Realism Magical realism is a mixture of culture and oral tradition, made to seem a reality. Magical realism is when the story is in a real world setting, but has magical factors and unexplainable events that attempt to make the reader a believer of something. Magical realism is composed of, historical and cultural realities, magical elements, and a metamorphosis occurring with someone. Historical and cultural realities help to convince the reader that there was a real event that took…