only because she is religious and passive. She never does anything aside from looking beautiful to permit such praise. In fact‚ nearly all heroines in Grimm’s’ fairy tales are beautiful -- from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty to Rapunzel to Little Red Riding Hood -- and therefore “good.” Specifically‚ Cinderella is good because she is beautiful‚ passive‚ innocent‚ and beguiled. Her
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guests‚ "There wasn’t a blemish on his body". Her appearance is quite chilling and quite contrasting‚ "Small‚ white‚ quickly moving hands and red finger nails". It is quite strange that she has this colour of nails when she is an old lady. The Landlady also always refers to young Billy as "my dear" which is reminiscent of the predatory wolf in Little Red Riding Hood. Billy is portrayed as a young and spruce man. This is shown by his new work clothes‚ "He was wearing a new navy-blue overcoat‚ a new brown
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One Crisp fall morning a girl named Crimson who wore a dark red hood was asked by her mother to deliver some baked goods to her grandmothers house‚ who was sick at the time. The mother who was hesitant to even ask her because‚ of the dangers lurking in the woods made Crimson promise that she wouldn’t talk to any strangers and would head straight there. Crimson Agreed to this and started skipping towards the woods. On her way she came across a few small animals. A squirrel‚ a fox and a mouse. She
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The text The Company of Wolves is a very risqué take on the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood. The text is very sexually suggestive in its use of language and descriptions of the main character. It is also very traditional and conservative in its presentation of gender stereotypes and roles. The main characters virginity is described as ‘the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg‚ she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut
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fairy tales‚ rather other texts‚ supplies children with that foundation. He also believes that adults should read The Grimm’s version of stories to their young children as a way teaching them the reality of the real world. In The Grimm’s version of Little Red Cap‚ it tells a story about a young girl‚ that everyone loves‚ who is going on a journey to her sick grandmother’s house. During this journey‚ she takes a path through the woods‚ where she meets a strange wolf. While meeting this stranger‚ she discusses
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All In the story of “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf”‚ Roald Dahl interprets the little girl as a gun-wielding murderer. While in most of the other interpretations of this story we’ve read this semester‚ she seemingly is just a young and naive little girl. When she walks into grandmothers house she has no idea that her grandmother has already been eaten‚ and soon enough finds out that the wolf has scheduled her to be next on his list. The pistol that Little Red Riding hood secretly wields ends
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The Little Red Hen Once upon a time‚ there was a little red hen who lived on a farm. She was friends with a lazy dog‚ a sleepy cat‚ and a noisy yellow duck. One day the little red hen found some seeds on the ground. The little red hen had an idea. She would plant the seeds. The little red hen asked her friends‚ "Who will help me plant the seeds?" "Not I‚" barked the lazy dog. "Not I‚" purred the sleepy cat. "Not I‚" quacked the noisy yellow duck. "Then I will‚" said the little red hen. So the
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The third version of the narrative‚ written by acclaimed horror genre author Angela Carter‚ offers a darker take. Her version is entitled “The Company of Wolves‚” and begins with the story of a sheltered child who travels through the woods in order to bring cakes and treats to her sick and elderly grandmother. The girl is young and inexperienced‚ so she rejects the potential danger that the woods may possess. As she is traveling‚ she hears loud howling‚ and then the huntsman appears from the depths
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I am Kaitlyn Luepann and I am portraying the fairy attendants Peaseblossom‚ Bottom‚ Cobweb‚ and the “jester fairy” Puck From William Shakespeare’s play‚ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” I will be portraying all these characters as one character with characteristics of all four. The ways I am going to adapt the characters that I am portraying are for me to have a witty sense of humour‚ yet have common courtesy and manners‚ and have respectful body language and a humourous tone of voice because the three
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explains why the content of the original Grimms’ fairy tales seemed to fit a more mature audience. An example of the content that makes their tales unfit for children would be‚ “In the original “Snow White” the evil stepmother is forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she falls down dead.”(O’Neill 3) Forcing someone to suffer like the evil stepmother in “Snow White” is cruel and unusual punishment‚ which the young developing minds in our society should not be exposed to. The way the evil
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