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    Brian Johnson 12/16/12 G Hour Animal Farm‚ A Fairy Tale Do you think that George Orwell compared the animals to the people in Russian History correctly? Orwell did a good job at comparing the animals to the people in the novel “Animal Farm‚ A Fair Tale. He uses facts about the person to define the animal characters. Boxer represented the working class because he is a cart-horse. Boxer has incredible strength; he is also dedicated to work. One of Boxer’s mottoes are “I will work harder”. Boxer

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    Fairy Tales Should Not Be Banned By: Aarohi Tanawade Fairy tales are an integral part of childhood since they teach young children many different life lessons and give them good morals to abide by. My grandma told me this during a debate that we had last month… and if anyone should know the truth‚ it’s her. Isn’t this true? To find out‚ we have to look at fairy tales from a child’s perspective. What do these stories hold for the young audience that reads them? I find that fairy tales

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    Deconstruction of Fairy Tales As most fairy tales are written there is always a happy ending‚ and no fairy tale yet has failed to deliver that ending. Fairy tales now in the modern day are perceived to be like a dream‚ an unattainable reality. A common theme in fairy tales is that the women are the victims that are dominated by a male‚ also there is a reoccurring theme of the terrible stepmother. Another theme that is common in fairy tales is that the women are forced to work‚ they are the ones

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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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    Fairy tales have always been the very first kind of literature which children meet. Fairy tales with a fantastic world are all of fairies‚ princes‚ goblins‚ elves‚ giants‚ trolls and witches‚ are dreams for children. However‚ the adult relationships presented in fairy tales‚ with subtle stereotypical significance‚ give an impression and get entrenched in the social psyche of a generation. So we can say that fairy tales have promoted and reinforce stereotypical gender roles through a presentation

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    Frozen is one of the Disney fairy tales that shows women as powerful and can make their own decisions and aren’t dependent on men and both genders are strong and powerful and do not overpower each other and is written by a female‚ but the fairy tales that are written by men are presented differently. It is evident that males are more dominating and have more power and the females are presented as weak and have no voice/opinion. That being said in the fairy tale “Cinderella” written by Charles Perrault

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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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    44). Famous words that many people know from their childhood. The tale of Rapunzel. A story that many adults and children are fond of. A picture of a beautiful princess with long golden hair looking out of a tower towards her handsome prince appearing in thousands of minds. Though most of the American population knows the general plot of the myth‚ most fail to realize that the story has changed greatly from the original Grimm fairy tale version. The role of Rapunzel taking a drastic turn. This can easily

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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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