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    2000 Research Writing Though there are many fairy tales that have been created through the years‚ Cinderella is into our subconscious by stimulating the part of us that sympathizes with the mistreatment of Cinderella. Others say that the theme of a down-and-out poor girl rising up to become rich and happy appeals to any normal person. This theme is the common bond between all the stories. Recently‚ however‚ modern versions of the tale have surfaced in an attempt to relate to modern audiences

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    III. • Tragedies (because he started to be disappointed with the way of developing of society) – Romeo and Julie‚ Othello‚ Macbeth‚ King Lear‚ Hamlet • Finally he put up with a life and started to wrote Romances and Fairy tales – The winter´s Tale‚ The Tempest Now I´d like to move on the play. It is the tragedy of a king who is not able to recognize true love. King Lear‚ a wise and revered man descending into madness. The tragedy of a daughter who loves her father too much

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    some disorders. I was trying hard to make happy with them. During the break‚ I told the story that I read from my Green’s Fairy Tales. They were so focus on my story‚ and I were so happy that I can made them happy. After I finish told the tales‚ they were still immersed in interesting story. I were amazed that they listened the fairy tales hardly‚ so I decided to donate some fairy books for them afterward. Additionally‚ I had a lunch with those little friends. It’s time to went home‚ but I wanted to

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    doesn’t know her true identity so she tried out different personalities and none of them worked. Godwin started the story off with an epigraph that said “once upon a time” making it seem like the story was going to be like a fairy tale. That was not the truth. In a fairy tale the woman would want to spend time with her family‚ but in this story the woman never wants to be around them. This story is about a woman who gets very overwhelmed with her husband and son. As the story went on she began

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    In the adaption of the classic fairy tale‚ Snow White‚ as told by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm the authors portray the feminist topics of the obsession with beauty and gender roles. In the story‚ a young girl named Snow White is target by her evil stepmother‚ the Queen‚ due to her beauty. In the story Snow White is deemed helpless and needs the protection of men. Both the treatment and actions of Snow White symbolises the gender roles and stereotypes of society. For Snow White‚ in order to obtain protection

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    The way we live today has been followed by the history for centuries. Culture‚ value and beliefs have changed as time goes by. Fairy tales‚ a social function of history representation‚ give strong messages for children. It is often to do with adolescence‚ puberty‚ and the achieving of adulthood‚ which shows the changing of the characters through the time. Although fairy tales do not have a first-person perspective‚ or rarely give any insights into the actual point-of-view of the characters‚ the story

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    In the article "Young people’s mental health: the spiritual power of fairy stories‚ myths and legends" Steven Walker correlates the main ideas and concepts on fairy tales to the building of healthy physiological children and young adults. He starts the article off by telling the story of the Greek legend of Oedipus that where a King and his wife are prophesized as having a child that will grow up and kill his father and marry his mother. In an effort to derail the prophecy they pierce the child’s

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    When I was young‚ I really like to listen to the fairy tales from my mother. My mother used to tell me a lot of stories such as “Snow-white”‚ “Sleeping Beauty”‚ “Cinderella”‚ and” Mermaid”. My favorite fairy tale is “Cinderella” because it is interesting. Moreover‚ Cinderella also my favorite character. When I grownup‚ I read “Cinderella” which is written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in 1967. The story told that a girl‚ who named Cinderella‚ had to live with stepmother and two sisters after her parents

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    Little Red Allegory

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    Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault is the fairy tale’s original published version. It introduced the iconic character globally known by the same name. However‚ in its time‚ this plus other tales featured hidden meanings. While some ridiculed politics‚ others offered their audiences moral messages. Perrault’s tale featured a straightforward moral‚ but it too featured a shocking but common allegory among tales in his generation: women are simple. The tale began by introducing the protagonist: Little

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    has heard many kinds of fairy tales at some points especially in their childhood. Fairy tales are not only for entertaining‚ but also for passing down information. Tales and stories have been used as a valuable tool to explain natural phenomena‚ explored relationships‚ and teach morals. Tales can mirror and influence society. Different cultures have their unique version of tales to carry and pass down the needs of their particular society to the next generation. The same tale in the Europe is different

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