QUESTIONS: 1. Mistress Miller offers her first born child to Rumpelstiltskin‚ in return for a pile of gold. Miller says‚ “I promise you faithfully that I will leave the offer open for a week.” Three days later‚ before Rumpelstiltskin has made up his mind‚ Miller sells her baby to Cinderella‚ who is unable to bear children of her own. Assuming it is legal to sell children‚ was Miller entitled to revoke her offer to Rumpelstiltskin? 2. Napoleon and King George are dividing up the New World
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time. When Duffy announces ’Love’s time’s beggar‚ but even a single hour‚/bright as a dropped coin‚ makes love rich.’ we see a twist of notion‚ like every second is like an hour creating a paradox. Duffy also uses refereces to two fairytales‚ Rumpelstiltskin and King Midas. When Duffy declares ’the Midas light/turning your limbs to gold.’ Duffy portrays a slightly sinister tone almost giving the reader a message to becareful what you wish for just like in the fairytale of King Midas.When Duffy announces
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Morgan le Fay Nimue alias Vivienne‚ Lady of the Lake Perceval Mordred Galahad Places: Avalon and Camelot Objects: Excalibur‚ the Sword in the Stone‚ the Holy Grail Fairy Tales The Ugly Duckling Snow White Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast Rumpelstiltskin The Princess and the Pea The Pied Piper of Hamelin Little Red Riding Hood Hansel and Gretel The Frog Prince The Fisherman and His Wife Cinderella Bluebeard Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Aladdin Examples and Non-Examples Effective Example:
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the dominant figure from time and in ‘Hour’ time is the dominant figure from love. In the poem‚ ‘Hour’‚ Carol Ann Duffy is talking about how one ‘Hour’ of their day can be spent as if they have all the time in the world. Using the tales of Rumpelstiltskin and King Midas‚ Duffy has managed to compare time and love in very different ways. This sonnet is a typical sonnet: it has 14 lines‚ it talks of love and it has a rhyming couplet at the end. Duffy has decided to put a rhyming couplet at the end
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The Book of Lost Things is a fantasy novel written by John Connolly. The book incorporates and adapts many fairy tales like Snow White‚ Rumpelstiltskin and Little Red Riding Hood. The main character‚ David‚ is going through a tough time in his life. His dad quickly married Rose after his mother passed away. And they give birth to his half brother‚ Georgie. David is struggling with all the changes while he enters a magical world where he finds lost things. After all‚ David realizes that people need
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Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday Literary Analysis Sandra Cisneros is an amazing writer. Growing up as a shy‚ introverted girl‚ no one would have ever thought she would eventually become a successful and very accomplished author‚ especially since she is a Mexican woman coming from a poor upbringing. In one of her works‚ “Straw into Gold: The Metamorphosis of the Everyday”‚ she uses figurative language such as imagery‚ details‚ and metaphors to create a victorious atmosphere
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What kind of world would we live in if we had no culture? It would almost be like staring at a blank canvas. A world with no culture is like a world with no color‚ making everything around us seem washed out and boring. Culture is what makes people who they are and what they believe in‚ giving them the ability to have an imagination and an idea of what’s right and what’s wrong. There are folktales that has been passed down for decades so people can share and remember all of the traditional cultures
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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 in the Grimms’
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English Literature Carol Ann Duffy: Hour Context Carol Ann Duffy is the first female Poet Laureate (2009)‚ and probably the best known female poet working in Britain today. She was born in 1955 in Glasgow. Duffy is well known for poems that give a voice to the dispossessed (people excluded from society); she encourages the reader to put themselves in the shoes of people they might normally dismiss. Her poetry often engages with the grittier and more disturbing side of life‚ using black humor
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Where as others see her relationship as inappropriate‚ Ruth views the ritual of breastfeeding as comparable to the “gold thread spun by the miller’s daughter in Rumpelstiltskin‚ the milk from her breast nourishes her son as “golden thread stream from her very shuttle” long past the age when a child would nurse” (Bloom 56). Ruth was seen by the janitor Freddie‚ who for years will keep this secret but marked the child
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