housemaid‚ in a house that should rightfully be hers’. (Since the death of her father) Cinderella was treated worse than a slave in her own home‚ made to do the dishes and clean the house. Yet she does nothing about it. She listens and obeys her cruel stepmother. All she does is sing a song and feel sorry for herself. At no point in the story does she decide to take matters into her own hands and fight for her freedom. Cinderella is portrayed as a dreamer. She constantly wishes for a better life. One
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plays in the background‚ a beautifully decorated storybook opens (the traditional opening for this kind of film) to a prologue of the tale: (The First Page:) Once upon a time there lived a lovely little Princess named Snow White. Her vain and wicked Stepmother the Queen feared that some day‚ Snow White’s beauty would surpass her own. So she dressed the little Princess in rags and forced her to work as a Scullery Maid. Each day the vain Queen consulted her Magic Mirror‚ ’Magic Mirror on the Wall
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vigorously protested‚ “then we will go to our work and they will never find their way home again. Gretel wept bitterly when she had heard what her stepmother was about to do. Hansel said gently trying to comfort his sister‚ “It is not all over with us. Do be quiet Gretel‚ and do not fret. I will manage something.” When
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possess beauty so divine that can melt the hearts of charming princes and gruff miners alike. To be able to tame temperamental beasts‚ attract timid forest creatures with your melodious voice and to know that‚ in the end-despite the fact that your wicked stepmother mistreats you and an evil queen is seeking you heart‚ someday your prince will come. What about this image of the ideal woman that has been presented to the world through the eyes of Disney? Is it mere animation‚ or does it ill prepares females
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does not love. He did not agree with the prevailing attitude of the time that a husband had the right to his wife’s body. Irene was only twenty-two at her marriage‚ the daughter of a poor widowed professor‚ and she was quite incompatible with her stepmother. She did not love Soames‚ but yielded to his persistent blandishments partly out of a need for security. Now Soames is sexually frustrated by his wife’s coldness. He finds he cannot fully “possess” her. As if to place her like a jewel in a superbly
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variations on the initial circumstances which can indicate the origin or the story. In some versions‚ Jack is hired help on a rich man’s farm. In other accounts he is working on his father’s farm. In all of the stories‚ his adversary is the wife or his stepmother who despises him. She gives him meager amounts of food until Jack is wasting away and realizes he will soon starve. While sitting in the pasture crying about his state in life‚ and his imminent starvation‚ a bull comes over and inquiries about
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------------------------------------------------- Electra complex From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Electra complex: Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon‚ byFrederic Leighton‚ c.1869 In Neo-Freudian psychology‚ the Electra complex‚ as proposed by Carl Gustav Jung‚ is a child’s psychosexual competition with his/her mother for possession of his/her father. In the course of her psychosexual development‚ the complex is the girl’s phallic stage; formation of a discrete sexual identity‚ a boy’s analogous
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One of the most important things to analyze in literature is the point of view‚ whether a story is told from the point of view of a holocaust survivor or a guard at an internment camp in Nazi Germany for instance might greatly influence the description of the transgressions that occurred. For similar reasons it becomes important especially in poetry and stories to analyze and evaluate the trustworthiness of the narrator a great example is Edgar Allan Poe’s stories “The Cask of Amontillado” and “A
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tell the truth‚ and to know right from wrong. Over the past few decades there have been conflicts over the stereotypical concepts about the way that men and women are portrayed in these stories. Such as in the story “Cinderella” the stepmother is just as wicked as she can be and the father just does what his wife asks of him‚ no matter if it hurts his daughters or not. This is a reason that some people have opposing views to this matter. They think that the children could get a totally different
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animated movie was released after World War II‚ in 1950. The Cinderella tale is known for having reoccurring elements in fairy tales called motifs. Motifs appear in all of the Cinderella stories including slippers‚ pumpkins‚ fairy godmothers‚ wicked stepmothers and sisters‚ a prince and a party. Each Cinderella story has a motif about a beautiful girl who is mistreated by her mother and sisters. A magical being helps her and she is awarded with riches that help her get to the party. The prince at the
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