ELA 406-01 M.Bakos 26 Feb 20123 Misconceptions of Disney Princesses I think each and every girl including myself has gone through that “princess phase” at one point or another in our lives. How many of us have used Cinderella‚ Snow White‚ or Sleeping Beauty as our role models growing up? The problem is that these princesses are role models of what we shouldn’t be like in real life; they are superficial‚ they rely on fairy godmothers to solve their problems‚ and they wait around for princes to save
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The Nutcracker is a story of a young girl that is whisked away to the Land of Toys to help her animated nutcracker defeat the Mouse King. “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A. Hoffmann‚ the altered version by Alexandre Dumas and the ballet by Tchaikovsky tell the same story; however‚ there are significant differences between the three and the audiences they connect with. Hoffmann’s Nutcracker is an extraordinarily innovative and unusual piece of writing that was originally for adults
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a more modern film that reflects the fairy tale‚ Sleeping Beauty. In many ways Sleeping Beauty and Shrek 2 have evident parallel story lines. To begin with‚ Bell and Fiona are similar in their own stories because like Bell‚ Fiona can be identified as the Sleeping Beauty. Since Princess Fiona is spellbound in the ogre‚ she needs to be kissed by her true love‚ in order to transform her body back to human. Similarly‚ in the actual fairy tale‚ Beauty and the Beast‚ Bell who is also spellbound and unconscious
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The Effect of Disney Princesses to Young Ones Disney princess images play a major role on the children’s minds and perspective. Snow White‚ Cinderella‚ Sleeping Beauty- they are just some of the princesses the young ones look into. They do not just become role models; they’ve also impacted the children’s own standards of beauty. I agree that the Disney princesses have a negative effect on how the young girls think and act‚ a point that needs emphasizing since so many parents devote their children’s
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Respond paper to “ Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine” Cinderella‚ Sleeping Beauty‚ The Little Mermaid‚ Beauty and The Beast‚ and Pocahontas are five Disney stories in which the female self is embedded. The feminist standpoint theory discus the idea of the “perfect girl” and its consequences on the female’s power‚ relationships‚ selfhood‚ and voice. The paper we have in hand discusses the dilemma that the females face between the “perfect girl” ideology and
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"Once Upon a Time" was first published in 1989. Nadine Gordimer was born in 1923 near Johannesburg‚ South Africa. She graduated from the University of Witwatersrand. A prolific writer‚ Gordimer has published more than twenty books of fiction. When Nadine Gordimer was asked to write a children’s story she replied with a short story called "Once Upon a Time". Although Gordimer’s title is typical of a fairy tale‚ the story she weaves is anything but typical. Instead of dealing with characteristics synonymous
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it took place in the woods in a small house. The major characters are ‚sleeping beauty‚ Prince and Ogress. Ogress tried to kill kids by not wanting them. In the end Ogress died‚ by getting eaten by creatures. In the Grimm Brothers story‚ they lived in a castle surrounded by lots of bushes. Little Brier Rose‚ Prince and Fairies were the main characters. A major event was when the 13th fairy said she will die. The price
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while helping society improve upon existing ideas and bridging cultural‚ linguistic‚ or age-related divisions. The fairy tale is one of the most popular and well read genre; incorporating ‘ageless’ and ‘classic’ fairy tales such as the Little Red Cap‚ Beauty and the Beast‚ and Rumpelstiltskin. However‚ one of the underlying features of this popular genre is the usage of gender politics and the critique of certain values such as the level of assertiveness and dominance.
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but rather accessibility to education to overcome ignorance and reach independence. Even though the old spinner in “The Tale of the Needle” helps‚ in the end the awakening is a solely decision the princess has to make. In the same manner‚ in “Sleeping Beauty Revised” we find a similar case in which the main character and narrator has to overcome her insecurities of being a divorced parent trying to give the best to his child and opposing what her mother and aunt say about her bad-parenting decisions
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WALT DISNEY TRUE STORIES People believed for many years‚ that Walt Disney became famous because of the stories that his company had created‚ but actually many of the stories are adaptations from books from the 19th century. Snow White‚ The Sleeping Beauty‚ The Little Mermaid‚ Cinderella and Pinocchio are among the stories that Disney immortalized in movies‚ and he was very lucky because children decided to believe in their renovated stories rather than wonder about the origins. The irony is that
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