story collection Children’s and Household Tales and published the first of its seven editions in Germany in 1812. The table of contents reads like an A-list of fairy-tale celebrities: Cinderella‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ Snow White‚ Little Red Riding Hood‚ Rapunzel‚ Rumpelstiltskin‚ Hansel and Gretel‚ the Frog King. Dozens of other characters—a carousel of witches‚ servant girls‚ soldiers‚ stepmothers‚ dwarfs‚ giants‚ wolves‚ devils—spin through the pages. Drawn mostly from oral narratives‚ the 210 stories
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intrigues the reader as they desire to know what happens. An example of this is when Odysseus decides to return to his love‚ Penelope‚ and embarks into an unknown adventure awaiting him (Odyssey 22; bk. 1‚ 22-25). Likewise‚ from the movie Tangled‚ Rapunzel deeply desired to find out what the floating lights that came every year on her birthday meant‚ so she ventured out of her comfort zone to find out this mystery (Tangled). The last example of the element of mystery is tone. Tone tells the reader
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Disney has made a name for itself in the entertainment industry; some may even argue that Disney helped lay the foundation of what is our current entertainment industry. For many young children Disney movies are ingrained into their memory and represent a part of their childhood. It is with in these memories that many grow up with an idea of what a villain looks like. Disney has made their villains appearance to have the worst stereotyped aspects of each gender. Male villains are made to have more
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Although there has been a shift in recent years to push for feminist ideals in movies such as Mulan‚ Brave‚ Rapunzel‚ and Frozen‚ Disney must continue this trend and not portray these Disney Princesses as merely fragile creatures but also as strong individuals. In Wiersma’s (2001) analysis of 16 Disney animated films‚ it was found that gender narratives remained
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Along? Liberal vs. Conservative Growing up in a home that could be characterized as a political battlefield was traumatic. I spent the first decade of my life living peacefully with two left- winged hippie parents. My mother had hair like Rapunzel and my dad worked as a jazz musician. Life was simple- then in came the 80’s. Making a living as a musician in the Catskill Mountains wasn’t quite panning out well for our family. Luckily my parents were both educated and my father went on to
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Disney has had its vast array of princesses in its prime and they’re still continuing to create more that unsurprisingly influence the girls in our society. Each princess of Disney’s undoubtedly came along with their own distinct personalities‚ however all of them portrayed some similar characteristics that correlated with the same intentions of being a princess if not already one. However‚ each story that goes along with these infamous princesses is how masculinity and femininity are depicted in
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Remember back when you were a child‚ the crazy imagination that you had. Singing nursery rhymes‚ fighting dragons‚ stuck in towers‚ dancing‚ listening to fairy tales‚ and forgetting the rest of the world as you daydreams take ahold of your time. Now that you are older‚ you know better than to wait for the princei or to save the princess. Your time is spent on love‚ school‚ education‚ family‚ friends‚ and anything other than all those childish things. But have you ever gone back on it and actually
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Hierarchy of Gender: Sexism vs. Feminism in the Surrealist Ring Declaration This study is submitted to University of Wales‚ Newport in accordance with the requirements of the ‘Issues in Contemporary Art and Culture 3’ module. It has not been submitted for any other degree or diploma of an examining body‚ except where specifically acknowledged; it is the work of the Author
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steal the king and queen’s baby just because she had the power of eternal beauty. A quote from Mother Gothel is‚ “The world is dark and selfish and cruel”. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine‚ it destroys it.” Mother Gothel put fear into Rapunzel‚ with these words‚ just so she would never leave and be afraid of the unknown. She did this to benefit only herself and created great destruction and sadness in others
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NEW YORK - Mickey Mouse and Nemo are now corporate cousins. Walt Disney has announced that it is buying Pixar‚ the animated studio led by Apple head Steve Jobs‚ in a deal worth $7.4 billion. Speculation about a deal being imminent raged on Wall Street for the past few weeks. Disney has released all of Pixar’s films so far‚ but the companies’ current distribution deal was set to expire following the release of this summer’s "Cars." The merger brings together Disney’s historic franchise of animated
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