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    Villains in Fairy Tale Stories Almost every fairy tale story has an evil figure. Evil figures that put harm on the main characters life or other people’s life in the story. Evil figures are people in the story who do not want peace for everyone but himself or herself‚ people who are selfish‚ jealous‚ evil‚ and harmful. Those evil characters also prompt interest and allure in the story‚ and sometimes those characters are the reason of the climax in the stories. For this essay the three evil characters

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    cavite Rapunzel (STORY ANALYSIS) Submitted by: Christopher S. Manalo Christopher glenn M. mendoza Submitted to: Mr. Leo Marko F. Azucenas August 16‚2013 Assessment/findings:THESIS STATEMENT A. Type of work: German Fairy Tale B. Title: Rapunzel C. Author: Brothers Grimm D. Main point of the Paper/analysis: Rapunzel. The witch‚ the parents‚ and the prince are the only characters besides Rapunzel and none of them have names. E. Genre/ Date

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    out. The story‚ “Hansel and Gretel”‚ has been a classic fairy tale for a very long time‚ and has been told over and over again. There are many different versions of this story‚ and it has been altered through many years of retelling it. There has been debate whether fairy tales have underlying meanings between the lines‚ or are just stories to entertain and pass along through generations. It is also wondered if the original tellers of the tales intentionally created meanings in the stories‚ or if that

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    THE TRAGIC MODE IN OSCAR WILDE’S FAIRY TALES DÉBORAH SCHEIDT‚ Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa ABSTRACT: In this paper we examine the articulation of the tragic mode in Oscar Wilde‟s collection of fairy tales The Happy Prince and Other Stories‚ especially in “The Young King”‚ “The Selfish Giant” and “The Birthday of the Infanta.” By “tragic mode” we mean‚ in this context‚ the vestiges left by Greek tragedy and its development‚ the Elizabethan tragedy‚ in a piece of nineteenth century fiction

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    Battle of The Sexes In the middle ages men and women were not looked at as equals. Once women were married to a man they were only looked at as property. In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales‚ he exemplifies his view on the differences between men and women in the Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale. In Wife of Bath’s tale men feel superiority over women‚ although women in the end gain the power. As an introduction to how men think of women in the middle ages‚ Chaucer first introduces the Wife of Bath

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    Fairy Tales as Moral Lessons When most people think of fairy tales‚ they usually imagine a beautiful princess that needs to be rescued‚ a valiant prince that rescues her and a happily ever after involving a wedding between the prince and princess. People imagine monsters and witches‚ but sometimes‚ when they read a fairy tale they may notice an underlying moral to the story that teaches us to do good deeds rather than bad. I read The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen several

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    labeled fairy tales because both stories incorporate mystical characters. Rumplestiltskin‚ from which the book gets its name‚ is the mystical character who spins straw into gold. In Stardust‚ several characters possessed magical powers. As well‚ the witches could put spells on the other characters and Yvaine never grows old. It is the interaction between mortals‚ mystical characters‚ and their peers which provides the reason for the label fairy tale. Another component often found in a fairy tale novel

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    I have analyzed one fairy tale and one nursery rhyme they have criminal behavior in them. The fairy tale that I will be analyzing and deciphering is “Cinderella”. The nursery rhyme that I will be analyzing and deciphering is “Tom of Islington”. “Cinderella” and “Tom of Islington” have very different criminal activities and behaviors. The crimes that are committed in these are illegal detainment‚ child labor‚ murder(not done) The fairy tale “Cinderella” is about a girl whose father died and is left

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    Anuj Arora July 10‚ 2011 Critique Mark Davis Not so Motherless In Elisabeth Panttaja’s‚ article Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior the author offers an analysis of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. Panttaja’s analysis may be off-putting to some because she describes Cinderella as being crafty and not a princess who is virtuous or patient. Panttaja claims that Cinderella was not as motherless as it seemed. She does on to say that we cannot assume that just because she is the heroine that she

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    Jane Eyre: A Fairy Tale? If there’s one thing that Charlotte Bronte could not be accused of‚ it is writing a simple romance novel. Jane Eyre is by all accounts a novel of love‚ but also a novel of personal growth‚ of pain‚ of things above human comprehension‚ and of happiness. Bronte intimately acquaints her readers with Jane Eyre‚ and gets us to love Jane despite all the obstacles she has to face .In keeping with the heart of the bildungsroman novel‚ Bronte lets us see not just the good times in

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