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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The one poem I found interesting was "Cinderella" by Anne Sexton. I expected the poem to just be a fancy version of the princess tale Cinderella which everyone knows that story. I expected it to be boring and everything I already knew about the fairytale. But this version was a more grim tale of the orginal. The beginning really hooks you with all the little stories about the plumber winning the sweekskates‚ the nursemaid marring the prince‚ and the milkman buying into real estate. All these people
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accustomed to‚ Anne Sexton’s poem‚ “Cinderella”‚ takes the tone of the original story of Cinderella written by the Grimm Brothers. Sexton uses examples that mirror situations that occur in the Grimm’s traditional version. These examples are all synonymous with what has become to be known as the stereotypical “Cinderella story”. Throughout the poem‚ the author also makes the refrain “that story” (5‚ 10‚ 21‚ 109)‚ which directly refers to the Grimm brother’s story‚ “Cinderella”‚ but this refrain also sheds
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The Bulldog of Bergen Cinderella Man‚ a film made in 2005 starting Russell Crowe and directed by Ron Howard‚ conveys an important life lesson‚ an incredibly accurate representation of the outstanding comeback of one man‚ all while being a story others are able to relate with. It is clear to see that Crowe put a lot of emotion and time into creating this story for viewers‚ which makes the movie easy to compare with the book My Antonia written by Willa Cather. The movie‚ based on a boxer named James
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The life of people during the Great Depression was poverty stricken‚ jobless‚ and too many it was hopeless. Life during this time was portrayed very well in the movie “Cinderella Man.” James Braddock is a perfect example of life during this time. He was as poor as the movie displayed him to be and he did have to go receive relief money from the government to heat his house and keep his children. “His Irish-Catholic back round played a major role in the values he held onto‚ specifically the one of
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Compare/Contrast Cinderella Essay “The Walt Disney Company is a powerful economic and cultural phenomenon known throughout the United States and the world as a provider of family entertainment (Maltin‚ 1‚ 308). Its media and entertainment holdings establish it as a central communicator in contemporary life. As such‚ it provides many of the first narratives children use to learn about the world” (Ward‚ 1). Disney has always been family oriented making it one of the main attractions of reading something
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Drawing on her many years of psychology training and client therapy‚ Jacqueline Schectman‚ director of training for the Jung Institute of Boston‚ makes a comparison between the four archetypes in Cinderella and the stages of grief families and children she treats in therapy. In her article‚ she describes a step-mother who‚ rather than hostile and unfeeling‚ seems to present a structure and truth to an abandoned little girl; step-sisters who are themselves reeling from unacknowledged grief; and a
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Question: How was your understanding of cultural and contextual consideration of the work developed through the interactive oral? Work Used: Jacob and Willhelm Grimm’s Cinderella Throughout the interactive oral‚ we extrapolated the ideas of cultural and contextual works of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s short story‚ Cinderella. Our discussions brought not only very insightful thoughts out into the open‚ but also theories on the author’s and plot keys that had me reanalyzing the entire piece.
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We’ve always read or been read fairy tales once in our lives‚ and how do they always end? Yes‚ happily ever after. In Anne Sexton’s "Cinderella"‚ she shakes up the traditional fairy tale‚ by adding her own tale. She uses sarcasm to finish the tale‚ causing the reader’s expectation of a happy ending and a traditional fairy tale to disappear. In doing so‚ she depicts the difference between the fairy tale and reality world. With Sexton’s harsh words of reality‚ she breaks the dreams of the readers
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Cinderella is a classic fairytale almost every person knows. Such recognition was earned through time and it’s originality. Yet from this well-known tale‚ many stories have stemmed into their own interesting aspects of virtually the same plot with similar characters. One of the related stories is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Brontë uses the main character Jane as Cinderella who finds her prince charming. Even though Jane Eyre contains more about human nature and less of magic‚ it still resembles
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