Once upon a time‚ many famous writers created many short stories filled with fantasy‚ exaggeration and even some with a talking animal or two called Fairy Tales. From Walt Disney to the Grimm Brothers‚ many different versions were created‚ but they all have one important element that outshined even the element of having a moral‚ and that element was imagination. Imagination is the most special element of them all because without this element‚ no fairy tale would have ever existed in this world. Fairy
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Lizzy Barns was thinking about Jonas Vanstrom again. Jonas was an understanding hero with scrawny stomachs and tall tongues. Lizzy walked over to the window and reflected on her beautiful surroundings. She had always loved awe-inspiring Grand Tetons with its motionless‚ mashed mountains. It was a place that encouraged her tendency to feel ecstatic. Then she saw something in the distance‚ or rather someone. It was the an understanding figure of Jonas Vanstrom. Lizzy gulped. She glanced at her own
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The fairy tale Rapunzel by the Brother’s Grimm is about a girl who is stolen from her mother and locked in a tower. She is never allowed to leave the tower. One day a prince comes‚ climbs the tower and Rapunzel and the prince fall in love and get married. The original story was so popular that Disney made it into the movie Tangled. The producers have added scenes like running from the royal guards and almost drowning in a dam to bring more action and suspense to the movie. One of the new scenes
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Disney movies portray the Little Mermaid to be a glorious‚ and exciting fairytale romance that was completely altered to shelter children while still trying to teach them valuable lessons that they could use in their everyday lives. Ariel in the Disney version learned not to trust weird strangers‚ follow her heart‚ value your family‚ get creative‚ etc. However‚ the original story tells of more gruesome punishments to Sirenetta’s curse that taught her a lesson forever; Sirenetta’s grandmother gave
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Byatt’s enticing tales of a dark forest‚ monsters and two little girls creates a fantasy or fairy tale that keeps you on the edge of your seat. The fairy tale starts out with two little girls meeting on a train with other evacuees heading to an unknown place. Penny and Primrose‚ who became fast friends on the train reconnected later in their adult life. When they met again the two girls attached themselves to each other just like the time they met on the train. The children were told to play until
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Candy Land Once upon a time there lived a simple girl who lived a simple life. Her name was Elena brooks and she lived in a small town of Freeport‚ Kansas. Elena lived with her mom‚ Adriana and her dad‚ Chris. She was a star student and was on the tennis‚ track‚ and debate team for her school. One day Elena was walking to her house when she saw a guy from her school named Eliot‚ they talked for a while and he decided to invite Elena to a party he was having this evening before their school’s football
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Euripides’ Medea uses the personification of the golden dress to symbolize the aggressive power takeovers of the BC Greek era. “She‚ when she saw the dress‚ could not restrain herself. She agreed with all her husband said‚ and before he and the children had gone from the palace‚ she took the gorgeous robe and dressed herself in it‚ and put the golden crown around her curly locks. She arranged the set of the hair in the shining mirror‚ and smiled at the lifeless image of herself in it. Then she
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Once upon a time‚ a charming and super naturally beautiful princess‚ graced with all the virtues that any noble woman should possess‚ fell into an enchanted 100 year long sleep. While all versions of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale depict a sleeping princess‚ and involve some sort of suspended animation‚ little (or no) information is given on the sleep itself. Throughout this essay‚ we will explore the symbolism behind the cursed princess’s enchanted slumber. Through comparisons‚ both sexualized
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Fairy tales help to establish gender roles at a young age to characterize and represent the ideals‚ values‚ and roles that each gender should succumb to. Females are taught to be kind‚ sweet‚ week‚ honest‚ self-sacrificing‚ and beautiful. On the other hand‚ males are taught to be courageous‚ brave‚ saviors‚ and wise. Many of these characteristics are shown in Snow White. However‚ in lemony Snicket’s‚ A Bad Beginning‚ the novel challenges many of these ideas by providing the reader with alternate
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The book Twice Upon A Time-Rapunzel: The One with All the Hair‚ by Wendy Mass‚ is about a girl named Rapunzel getting taken away from her home and the story of her life in a tower and the story of how she was saved. In the beginning of the book‚ it is Rapunzel’s birthday and she is very excited. But all of a sudden a witch comes to take her away from her house and her parents. Her parents try to stop the witch from taking Rapunzel. Rapunzel gets to either stay with her parents‚ but then the witch
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