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    Grimm Fairy Tales

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    Anonymous Disneyfied Fairy Tales Everybody knows how Cinderella found her glass slipper after dancing at the ball. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were awoken by true loves kiss and lived happily ever after. The Little Mermaid longed to live on shore to be with that one special person. The thing that people don’t know is that the tales are wrong. Grimm Fairy tales are the original fairy tales dating back to early Germany. Disney took the fairy tales and put their own spin on them to be more appealing

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    of the Fairy Tale:  The Brothers GrimmBy Thomas O’Neill Once upon a time there lived in Germany two brothers who loved a good story—one with magic and danger‚ royalty and rogues. As boys they played and studied together‚ tight as a knot‚ savoring their childhood in a small town. But their father died unexpectedly‚ and the family grew poor. One brother became sickly; the other‚ serious beyond his years. At school they met a wise man who led them to a treasure—a library of old books with tales more

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    The Value of a Fairy Tale

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    Fairy tales are usually stories‚ which tell us about values of life or lessons about life. They can occur as stories in a book‚ or movies. Most of movies about fairy tales come from Walt Disney‚ one of the famous movie companies. Children are the favorite viewers of this kind of movies‚ and they also learn a lot from these stories. It’s said that fairy tales help create our sense of ourselves and the world as well as telling us about gender roles. Movies such as “Aladdin”‚ “Sleeping Beauty”‚ and

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    Fairy Tale Conventions

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    Orser English 3331 Feb 3rd 2014 A Study of the conventions of Fairy Tales: Lily and the God of the river Fairy tales are not only popular in children but also appeal to adults because they always provide people with good wishes. For hundreds of years‚ fairy tales have become a very important part of children’s literature. As we learn more about fairy tales‚ we found out that there are several conventions of the fairy tales‚ such as a specific setting to remove the readers from the real world;

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    A Fairy Tale Christmas

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    My Christmas holiday fairy tale Once upon a time there was a very handsome boy. He was going on vacation with his family. The boy was called Sebastian. He was going to celebrate Christmas in Austria with his mom and dad‚ his grandmother‚ and his older brother and his older brothers wife and two kids. They were all very exited about it. They had been renting a big cabin 800m up‚ on a mountain. It was a skiing vacation‚ so the villa was in the middle of a big slope. The whole family was having

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    A young woman wants to marry the King‚ but is told that first she must spin straw into gold or die. A funny trickster by the name of Rumpelstiltskin agrees to do it‚ only if she promises her first born child. He does‚ and she marries the King. When she gives birth to a child‚ Rumpelstiltskin comes back and demands the child for payment. Since he loves to play games‚ he says that the Queen may keep the child‚ if she can guess his name in three days. He comes back three times to ask her what his name

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    A Fairies Twisted Tale

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    A Fairies Twisted Tale Many fairy tales have a happy ending‚ once upon a time is not one of those. Incidentally‚ Nadine Gordimer wrote a modern fairy tale called Once Upon A Time about a family’s fear of outsiders‚ around the era of apartheid when riots were common. In Gordimer’s story‚ she uses imagery and irony to promote the idea that the irrational fear of outsiders leads to dire consequences. The author uses imagery specifically sight to convey the idea of dire consequences caused by fear

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    Philosophy and Fairy Tales

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    Sophies World-The only thing required to be a philosopher is the faculty of wonder (17) Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales (334) Possible symbol-rowboat with one oar in the lake‚ and someone needing the rowboat to get home (99) Superstition-negative connotation; faith-positive connotation Influenza-misalignment of the stars; hermetic-hidden‚ inaccessible; Francis Bacon-“knowledge is power”‚ invented English essay with loose format. Printing press let us use knowledge to obtain power.

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    Gruesome Fairy Tales

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    Gruesome Fairy Tales of Lore… Reality for Today’s Children… i.e. Paris Attacks That talk… the one you have with your wide-eyed toddler about strangers. The one that dilutes all efforts to build trust‚ security‚ confidence‚ comfort. Staring down innocence‚ you apologize for the world we live in. “I’m sorry… there are bad people in the world.” You issue the warnings regarding strangers: don’t talk to them… don’t accept candy‚ money or anything… don’t get into their car… and so on… Translation:

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    Byatt's Fairy Tale

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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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