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    Maria Tatar’s new point of view on the famous old tales is that fairy tales served as a window into the world of grown-ups‚ providing a safe perch from which to explore children anxieties. In order to teach children to be good‚ but first we have to show them what’s bad. By adding some of the lurid staff‚ such as brutally violent‚ wicked stepmother‚ and wife-killing baron into the fairy tales to show the negative side. With parents appropriate explanations and their own cultural translations will

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    The emergence of the genre of feminist rewrites of fairy tales that began in the 1970s with particular attention to the impact of the women’s movement on the development of the genre. The rallying shot that galvanized the debate was the assertion by Lurie in her 1970 “Fairy Tale Liberation” and 1971 “Witches and Fairies” that strong female characters could be found in fairy tales (Haase 1). Why those feminist scholars emerge to rewrite the fairy tales‚ and how meaningful is it? From my perspective I’m

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    ABC Fairy Tale: Tarzan As the baby cried‚ the lonely gorilla‚ Kala‚ came to the rescue. Behind the covers‚ a baby boy was discovered. Cradled in Kala’s arms‚ the baby fussed as the jaguar Sabor appeared. Desperate to get away‚ she jumped in the boat for safety; and‚ took her new discovery to her family. Even though Kerchak didn’t want Kala to keep the baby‚ she raised Tarzan as her own. For years‚ Tarzan tried to get Kerchak’s approval. “GRRRR”‚ growled Sabor as he came out of nowhere; Tarzan

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    Brittany Sparrow Mrs. Cecchetto ENG4U1-02 October 15th‚ 2013 Patriarchy in Fairy Tales: A Feminist Literary Analysis “The house of fiction‚” wrote Henry James‚ “is one of many dissimilar windows through which many pairs of eyes watch the same show but see many different things.” The princess tale of today cannot be told without some interaction with feminist critique. In this newly executed version of the timeless fairy tale Snow White‚ the princess is finally no longer the backdrop of her own story

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    Kind actions to others can be rewarded‚ but selfish and unkind actions to others may be punished. People’s actions may come back at them in the future. The fairy tales used are “The Golden Goose” and “Cinderella”. All of the actions people perform to society and others have consequences. People’s actions describe how someone is as a person. Cinderella’s father married another woman who brought with 2 step daughters with her. “So they took off her fine clothes‚ and put upon her an od grey cloak

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    Fairy Tale Stereotypes in Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella”: Raggedly Ever After Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella” illuminates the unrealistic and prejudiced stereotypes in age-old fairy tales‚ stereotypes inadvertently etched on the minds of millions of children. Sexton uses a conversational tone that remains oblivious to the initial hardships of the “rags to riches” maiden to highlight the insignificance and passiveness of women and the influential and dominant character of men. She conveys to the world’s

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    evolutionary psychologists will tell you that‚ statistically‚ step-parents are far more dangerous than birth moms and dads. It’s called the Cinderella effect — a nod to the unsavoury acknowledgment that the evil step-parent is not just a character in fairy tales. Step-parents beat children under five to death at per capita rates more than 120 times higher than do genetic parents‚ according to an analysis of Canadian homicide data from 1974 to 1990. And overall‚ step-parents abuse and kill kids at

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    that fairy tales are not real stories‚ they are just made up stories that usually involve a happy ending. But these tales engraved in our consciousness make us feel like these things are real. Rachel Kieran talks about how fairy tales fail to tell us how relationships work or what happens after they live happily ever after? Why do we expect our relationships to be happy endings? Fairy tales fool many people into believing that their relationships are going to have happy endings like most fairy tales

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    Have you ever wondered why your parents read you fairy tales to you as a child? Fairy tales are most certainly suitable for children. My main reasons to support this argument are‚ they let a child’s imagination run free‚ they teach children life lessons in an entertaining way and they require the child to see beyond the story to the true meaning of the fairy tale. My first argument is that fairy tales let a child’s imagination run free. This is true‚ as young children need to be able to project

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    demigods‚ explains natural phenomena. Fairytales- Fairy tales are Fiction‚ false‚ unreal‚ magic. Fantastic elements‚ imagery creatures‚ Good and evil. Fables- Fables are Fairy Tales‚ teaches lesson‚ uses animals (personification)‚ consequence. Tall tales- Tall tales are based on history. Blatant mistruths‚ some truth‚ told and retold. A Brazilian folklore is a culture tradition that includes fables‚ fairy tales‚ myths‚ legends‚ and tall tales. Brazilian culture has a mixer of values because

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