section‚ you choose to answer SIX out of TEN questions. Your answers should be in paragraph form.Each response is worth 10%. Section II (worth 40%): In the second section‚ you will write an essay on ONE of THREE topics. You may want to have your texts available in case you wish to use quotations in the essay-writing portion of the examination. Exam Tips: Read each question carefully before answering. You can go back and change answers at any time during the examination‚ so if you are stuck on
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certain things carry over? Depending on your age and personal experience‚ fairy tales like Cinderella can be perceived in several drastically different mindsets. As a young child‚ Disney portrayed Cinderella as a magical rags to riches tale where a poor maiden was swept off her feet by her Prince Charming and lived happily ever after. Complete with insightful talking mice‚ extravagant ball gowns and an extremely accommodating fairy godmother‚ the film was enough to make any little girl feel like a princess
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“Books are uniquely portable magic‚” Stephen King wrote in On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. I quite agree with this view. In retrospect‚ the genres of books which I read gradually varied as of aged. Additionally‚ those books which I have read‚ broadened my horizon and improved my comprehension ability to some degree. When I was a preteen‚ my parents thought that reading as a good habit needed to be fostered from my childhood. Therefore‚ I had bedtime stories since I was three years old. My
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is that of finding sex symbols in old fairy tales. It is a very easy game to play. Freud is said to have once remarked that a cigar sometimes is just a cigar‚ but psychoanalysts who write about fairy tales seem incapable of seeing them as just fantasies intended to entertain‚ instruct‚ and at times frighten young children. Bruno Bettelheim’s analysis of Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH)‚ in his book The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (1976) is a prime example of Freudian
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perhaps the most gifted sculptor and painter of all times‚ once said that "geniuses stand on the shoulders of other geniuses." As Michelangelo built upon the brilliance of his predecessors‚ Anne Sexton does the same with her poem "Cinderella". Fairy tales originated as oral traditions and were passed along and sculpted by thousands of story tellers. Each raconteur changes elements in the story to fit their individual needs. Sexton reinvents "Cinderella" as a poem and integrates the story with her
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life of your career. When I was young in school‚ reading a course material for just to prepare myself for the exam and to get good grades‚ since at my country more value given to quantity than quality‚ if the exam task requires to create a page of essay and if person writes a page and half of two pages‚ one would get good marks‚ most of the time the value of parks given to quantity. I even remember on my friend mentioned that in a exam ‚ there was topic to explain ad story from the course ware ‚ but
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Fairytales are probably the most popular mean of entertainment not only for children but also for grown ups no matter which form they may take on: a story read or told by the parents‚ a play or an animated film. People rarely consider that while enjoying tales they contribute to the preservation of folklore‚ which also ‘includes all the traditional forms of expression that circulate without the aid of books – the art‚ speech‚ and literature created through personal interaction rather that through the printed
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Although there are many fairy tales‚ “Cinderella” is a fairly well-known magical story enjoyed and told by arguably thousands of cultures around the world. In the typical “Cinderella” fairy tale‚ the Fairy Godmother magically appears and transforms Cinderella from her destitute state into a beautiful princess who lives happily ever after with her Prince Charming. There are many versions of “Cinderella” from the different cultures that have embedded magic into the fairy tale. The source of that magic
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published by George Routledge. This fairy tale is one of the oldest and most familiar to young children that inspire them to believe anything is possible. The literary elements in Cinderella include the setting‚ characters‚ plot‚ conflict‚ climax‚ and ending. The setting was in a faraway kingdom a long time ago. The characters included a young girl name Cinderella‚ her stepmother‚ two stepsisters‚ the prince‚ and fairy godmother. The Plot of this fairy tale is a young girl who is being treated
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behind the villain. (Monk‚ 2014) “A revisionist fairy tale with a wonderfully sharp feminist edge‚ Maleficent features Angelina Jolie‚ pictured‚ in the title role of the famed villainess who tortured poor Aurora in Sleeping Beauty‚ the 1959 animated Disney classic. Everyone knows how that story ends. But viewers don’t really know where it all began‚ and why Maleficent was so angry in the first place. We simply take wicked women as a fact of fairy tale life.” While there were similarities between this
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