Rapunzel have a magic hair that glows when she sings, it can also heal wounds and manages to achieve eternal youth to whoever…
Jim Henson’s pride and joy is one of his less famous works, a fantasy film named Dark Crystal that was filmed completely with originally made puppets. The film is complete with heroes, villains and the other main components of fantastical narratives as described by folklorist Vladimir Propp who states that in fairytale narratives there are 31 functions. A function is defined as, “an act of a character, defined from the point of view of its significance for the course of the action” which is a stable and constant element of the fairytale (Berger, 116). The 31 functions Propp describes are actions that the character fulfills to advance the plot to the eventual happy ending and include plot advancements such as “return” which is described as the heroes return to his/her homeland (Berger, 117). Although fairytales may sound simple, the functions and relations the characters fulfill are varied and complex; there is more than meets the eye at first glance to such a fairytale as Dark Crystal. The complexities include character relationships that are described as identifying one character due its contrast from another, such that a villain is only a villain because there is a hero to contrast their evil qualities (Berger, 118). Ultimately, there is more to fairy tale narratives than the simple battle between the hero and the villain, Dark Crystal exemplifies this through the display of Propp’s 31 functions and theories dealing with character relationships. Furthermore, due to puppetry as the medium in Dark Crystal, Propp’s functions and theories dealing with fantastical narratives are more obvious as the puppets are able to exaggerate the fantastical elements.…
In The Woman in Fairy Tales, Marie-Louise von Franz studies the feminine representations in fairy tales. She bases her study on collective symbols assumed to be present in these stories to shed light on the various facets of the anima. This book points at the fact that even if fairy tales are generally seen as a form of distraction, these stories have also a psychological function which expresses the psychic processes of the collective unconscious. This is of a capital interest to analyze the instrumentalization of the princesses in the advertising campaigns.…
As long as humans have been on this earth, they have been curious. People were curious about land, so they explored the world by ship. People were curious about the sea, so they dove below the surface. People were curious about the universe around them, so they sent man to space. In 1873, a European-American psychoanalyst named Sigmund Freud was curious about the mind, the subconscious, and how it affects human action, so he began studies of concepts and patients that would last over sixty years. 1923 brought a publication titled The Ego and the Id, that introduced new ideas of a developed and divided unconscious (“Timeline”). In his time, his works were used by psychologists around the globe, but now they have paved the way for a literary school of thought (Shmoop, “Psychoanalysis”). In William Shakespeare’s beloved comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Freud’s theory of the id, ego, and superego can be applied to analyze how the characters’ reactions are shaped by their subconscious and how their decisions affect the play as a whole.…
In the following paragraph, the expositions of the movie Tangled and the short story “Rapunzel” will be compared and contrasted. In Tangled the parents were rich and lived in a kingdom. On the other hand, in “Rapunzel”, the parents were very poor and lived in a small house. In Tangled, Mother Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel for her magic gift, and kept her locked up in a tower and wouldn't let her leave. Every year on Rapunzel’s birthday, her parents, the king and queen, would light lanterns in the sky. They were hoping that one day, their lost princess would once again return. In “Rapunzel”, her parents practically traded her to Mother Gothel for stealing from her magic garden. Also in Tangled, Rapunzel’s hair is magic. Her hair glows and can turn a very old lady, to the youngest, and prettiest woman. In “Rapunzel”, her hair isn't magic or anything like that, it’s just very, very long.…
Freud’s text ‘The Uncanny’ has enabled me to understand the sense of ‘not being at home’ as I’m not British, having lived in London all my life it has yet to be considered home although, if taking Freud’s text into consideration a part of me has already established London as my home but Ukraine as my homeland with a difference that is very visible in all aspects of life. The British culture, religions – many to choose from which is rare in Ukraine as we have a very limited choice. For example: Christian Orthodox (three sections to the orthodox churches), Catholics (three sections to the orthodox churches), Ukrainian Protestant Churches as well as, the limited religions like Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and Paganism in Ukraine. The British society…
The topic I have chosen to discuss is the function and meaning of dreams and dreaming in fantasy texts. Dreaming, in this context, is an implicit representation of the characters ideals and their wants. I believe the function of dreaming in fairy tales to be a temporary escape from ones reality, a reflection of ones true desires, as well as a tool that gives dimension to the characters, while at the same time allowing the reader to better understand the mind of the characters. This is demonstrated with the characters of Cinderella, in the different versions of Cinderella in the classic Fairy Tales, as well as with Isabelle Marie, in Mad Shadows.…
Once upon a time, there lived a princess with seventy feet of hair in an isolated tower with her “mom”, her name was Rapunzel. Rapunzel never leaves her tower in regards to her mom's’ wishes, but she didn't know that her “mom” is actually her kidnapper. The kidnapper uses Rapunzel for her magic hair that keeps her young. Rapunzel had always been a good girl until she met Flynn who made her realize the situation she is in. Flynn helps her escape out of the wrath of the witch, which immediately makes the witch turn so old that she diminishes. Rapunzel eventually meets her parents who happen to be the king and Queen of the village. Both Rapunzel and the witch receives poetic justice. Rapunzel earned her parents and a boy because of her kind actions…
Bruno Bettelheim, the author of “Cinderella: A story of Sibling Rivalry and Oedipal Conflicts,” believes that Cinderella is one of the best fairytales of all time because the tale has a deeper meaning than what meets the eye and it is something that everyone can relate with at some point in their life. Being a Freudian psychologist, Bettelheim believes that a person’s conscious mind takes the fairytale for face value, while the same person’s unconscious mind can view the exact same fairytale very differently.…
Fairytales: when someone says that word, the first thing that might come up in your mind is probably kid’s reading Cinderella. Fairytales’ simplicity and accuracy in delivering a moral to young kids and adults is wonderful. We’d give an adult a eerie look if we caught them reading a kids book on the train to themselves. The reason behind our thought is cause it’s a kids book why would an adult read it but behind all this is the difference of interpreting stories for adults and children. Stories like Juniper Tree, Snow White, and Little Red Cap include hidden messages through violence and imagery and dialogue. Fairy tales teach children how to grasp the meaning and power behind storytelling. In this paper I will discuss the vast ways in which a child and adult interpret fairytales. Its…
Fairy tales are often significant for enhancing imagination and different perspectives in the readers. Fairy tales are symbolic in our history and may currently still be present in our society. Fairy Tales also allow us to analyze the emotion of the characters and compare that to our culture as well as our own daily life. In “Snow White and her Wicked Stepmother” and the classic “Snow White” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm both focus intently on how envy, competition, hard-work, and mother daughter relationships and how that is still applied in our world today. The classic “Snow White” allows the reader to focus specifically on how the dwarves are emblematic toward the American dream and toward the common working man…
The film first touches on the sociological idea of gender, and how Disney implements gender roles in the minds of children at an early age based on stereotypical controlling images in their films. The idea of women being “sirens of seduction” is a common theme in Disney movies. A particular instance of this is found in the example of “The Jungle Book.” Mogeley -- the seven or eight year-old main character, blatantly states he wants to live in the jungle with the animals not the humans. At the end of the film, Mogeley is lead out of the jungle by a siren, a young temptress girl of seven or eight who seductively shakes her hips and sings entrancing him and making him choose sex over his true desire to stay in the jungle. The idea of women as seductresses can even be seen in movies where women are portrayed in animal form such as “Fantasia.” These stereotypes are so influential that when performing the “mirror test,” young girls were dancing and caressing their bodies as the girls from the films had done.…
Within the film, there is a scene that commemorates Rapunzel’s birthday and shows the King and Queen, whom are Rapunzel’s real parents, preparing to celebrate her birthday. Rapunzel’s father is seen crying as they celebrate their daughter’s birthday. In previous Disney movies, the mothers are usually the ones shedding tears and being consoled by their husbands, or by a male. Tangled uses an influential character as the King, to show children that men can have emotions and they are not any less of a man if they do. Another aspect of the movie that shows equality between men and woman is when Mother Gothel stabs Flynn and Rapunzel uses her tear to save Flynn’s life. This shows that men need saving too, and a woman has the ability and power to save the man if need…
The king figure in fairy tales for example stand for more than high power. They often idealize the dreams of lower class people. Kings would embody the ideal reality that everyone was striving to achieve. This was partially only achievable because the people writing these stories are within the lower class so fairy tales were their way of escaping their real lives. This would give a voice to their aspirations and give them an escape from their simple lives. Characters outer appearance correlates to its inner appearance. A mean witch is often dressed in dark colors because she has bad intentions. A king iss dressed well because he is the image of ultimate success. Characters are not the only aspects of fairy tales that have multifaceted meanings. Fairy tales teach lessons of self-control to develop skills to help children have control over themselves as well as their surroundings. Fairy tales ending in showers of wealth and glory are common because they teach nonmaterial rewards like pride are more important than material wealth. This book is interesting because it focuses less on how important fairy tales are to the development of children and more that fairy tales are more complex than they seem to be. They teach lessons beyond role modeling; they teach lessons about creating and executing a plan, standing up for others and believing in yourself. Author touched on points…
Who were the people that made the harsh fairy tales that most haven't heard the original of? The names most have heard of are the Grimm brothers (Wilhelm and Jacob). The brothers made stories that were adapted and restored by Disney. One in particular is “rapunzel”.We’ve all heard of the basic “Rapunzel” or the twist “Tangled” animated by Disney, but have we heard of the true story written by the Grimm brothers? The real question asked after reading the story is if the they pushed the limits with what they were teaching the tot. Youngsters were showed that the basic corner was taken to extremes.…