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    magic fish bones after her stepmother killed the magic fish. Another similarity is that they all had a Cinderella

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    more specifically‚ what is a Cinderella story? How does one know that the tale is part of the plethora of Cinderella tales? Is it because they have a young girl under her stepmother’s controlling thumb? No‚ that cannot be all… There is no evil stepmother in “Suit of Leather” or “Donkeyskin.” If a young girl basically forced into slavery is not it‚ then what makes a Cinderella story just that? Through careful consideration‚ four elements have stood out in each tale. All of the tales have a heroine

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    ‘Mankind is as it were deliberately or comically tormented by the gods. He is not even allowed to die tragically’. – Wilson Knight Evaluate this view by exploring the role of the gods in ‘King Lear’. In ​ King Lear​ ‚ Shakespeare cast off the Christian setting of one of his main sources‚ ​ The True Chronicle History of King Leir​ ‚ and chose the pre-Christian environment of primitive Britain. This allowed for the play to strip away any sense of formalized religion‚ which would remove constraints

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    Once upon a time there lived a despondent young girl. Her mother was departed and her father married a cruddy woman‚ who had 2 cruddy daughters. The despondent young girl name was Cinderella. Cinderella stepmother didn’t like Cinderella at all. The stepmother only loved her 2 daughters. Her daughters had everything- Polo’s‚ Jordan’s‚ chicken boxes‚ and all. But for Cinderella there was nothing. Not any clothes or shoes from Foot Locker‚ Hollister‚ or Polo. She only got clothes and shoes from the

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    Everyone should be Treated Tenderly by The World It is dark outside while it is light inside. The Bible is put on my desk. I am reading it. But I taste the stories of it slowly and carefully. There are too many things I can feel‚ and too many notes I want to write down. For when I am thrown into the situation of the story‚ I can see how all the things developed‚ like a man from born to death. In this progress‚ I look at his choices‚ and the results of what he had chosen. Sometimes‚ the end is a

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    Einar reaffirms Hrafnkel that “he would never be so wicked as to ride the one horse which was forbidden to him‚ particularly‚ since there were plenty of other horses at his disposal” (40). Clearly‚ Einar demonstrates full comprehension of the situation and acknowledges that he is provided all of the tools

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    woman to become his wife. Cinderella is the poor weak and passive girl who has to obey to the orders given by her stepmother. Her alternatives are to stay miserable or marry into happiness; the Prince is her rescuer. In Ever After‚ it is the same thing because the young girl has to obey to the order of her cruel stepmother and sisters. She has no power like Cinderella and while her stepmother gives her to the cruel baron‚ the Prince rescues her. In the movie and the story‚ the deprived girl marries the

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    what they wanted‚ then they would not have gotten what they deserved and that was the whole lesson of the story. Another example is that in the end‚ Cinderella does get to marry the prince and she gets what she deserves for how the stepsisters and stepmother treated her. The Disney version also kept this the same because it is the happy ending that everybody is expecting and is‚ once again‚ the basic story line. They can change the details of the story compared to the Grimm version‚ but they needed

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    Adult v. Children’s Interpretation Fairytales: when someone says that word‚ the first thing that might come up in your mind is probably kid’s reading Cinderella. Fairytales’ simplicity and accuracy in delivering a moral to young kids and adults is wonderful. We’d give an adult a eerie look if we caught them reading a kids book on the train to themselves. The reason behind our thought is cause it’s a kids book why would an adult read it but behind all this is the difference of interpreting stories

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    Weak Women or Patriarchal Tales One of the first things children are exposed to is the well-known fairy tales written by the Grimm Brothers or Hans Christian Anderson. These tales portray the story of a heroic‚ strong‚ and powerful man saving the weak‚ dependent‚ damsel in distress. As expressed by Leslee Kuyendal and Brian Sturem in their article “We Said Feminist Fairy Tales‚ Not Fractured Fairy Tales!” fairy tales “reflect and reproduce the patriarchal values of the society that crafted them”(“We

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