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    points out how characters from any story usually follow a certain pattern‚ called archetypes. Analyzing a fairy tale‚ I decided to choose “Cinderella”. It is evident that many characters in “Cinderella” followed a traditional archetype. The main character‚ Cinderella‚ can be fit into three different archetypes: innocent‚ damsel in distress‚ and an outcast. Cinderella can be classified as an innocent because she has never done wrong to anyone‚ even staying positive when getting bullied by her stepmother

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    narrative version by Charles Perrault that are implicit and informative in support of each character’s identities. Mallet‚ Chase‚ and Teasley have all published texts that further dissect the parts in the story and contribute the idea of gender role and power. The story contains archetype and dichotomy that describe characters to help us identify their personality; however‚ psychoanalytic ideas overthrow their defined identities and suggest a new side of understanding. Charles Perrault’s "Little Red

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    Into the Woods is a musical film that connects the stories of Cinderella‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ Rapunzel‚ and Jack and the Beanstalk with the main plot of a baker and his wife performing tasks for a witch who would undo a curse that didn’t allow them for to bear child. Throughout the movie‚ the characters are constantly singing to an overlapping tune or a new song‚ but there is some narration to keep the audience aware‚ the singing tells the story itself‚ and the background music‚ when the characters

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    shaped almost all of our childhoods and I think we all know the story of Cinderella. She’s a girl with two evil stepsisters and an evil stepmother who has a fairy godmother who gives her a dress until midnight‚ and then she loses her glass slipper and Prince Charming falls in love with her. The Disney stories we heard as kids aren’t even close to the more disturbing original versions of them. The classic story of Cinderella is sweet and has the “Fairy Tale Ending” that every little girl dreams of

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    The first juxtaposition is between the lessons that standard fairy tales teach and the lessons that amoral fairy tales teach. Standard fairy tales‚ such as Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel‚ serve as examples where an extreme good defeats an extreme bad because “polarization dominates the child’s mind” (26)‚ therefore a child is able to understand the differences in the positive and negative moral characteristics

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    Many children grow up with fairy tales at their fingertips‚ and these fairy tales aid the development of the child. The lessons that children take away from these fairy tales consciously and subconsciously change the way that children view certain circumstances. In “Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality‚” Catherine Orenstein states that the presence of fairy tales has resulted in an indistinct view of reality. Orenstein considers the television shows and movies that portray love at first sight and what

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    The once innocent moral tale used to teach little girls a lesson has developed into many convoluted adaptations that apply some of modern societies most problematic issues. Both the Perrault and Grimm version of Little Red Riding Hood both point out the consequences of straying of the path. While Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood ends with the wolf having eaten the innocent little girl‚ Grimm’s Little Red Cap has a hero who swoops in to save her and grandma. The movie‚ Freeway (1996) directed

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    because there is always a happy ending. Disney productions have also taught young children the difference between good and evil. Films such as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs‚” and “Cinderella” are two of their earlier movies that are vastly different but share similarities as well. For instance‚ both Cinderella and Snow White are beautiful princesses that are forced to be maids. The antagonists in these stories are evil step mothers that are jealous of their step daughter’s beauty. In the Disney

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    be a hero who will overcome adversity and in the end will save the day. In Kate Chopin’s short story “Desiree’s Baby‚" the presence of fairytale features is extremely obvious. “Desiree’s Baby” has common connections to the themes of Snow White‚ Cinderella‚ and Beauty and The Beast in which they fall in love‚ the woman waits for her true love to come home‚ and they overcome hardships before they live happily ever. Snow White is known as one of the most popular Disney fairy tales of all time. Snow

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    a question of good and evil. Much is revealed about gender roles by examining characterization in Cinderella. Cinderella is the example of “pious and good”‚ while her stepsisters and stepmother are characterized as “treacherous and wicked at heart.” While this explanation seems simple‚ and is usually taken at face value‚ one has to consider the Grimm’s’ explanation of Cinderella’s goodness. Cinderella is apparently “good” only because she is religious and passive. She never does anything aside from

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