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    Maria Tatar’s new point of view on the famous old tales is that fairy tales served as a window into the world of grown-ups‚ providing a safe perch from which to explore children anxieties. In order to teach children to be good‚ but first we have to show them what’s bad. By adding some of the lurid staff‚ such as brutally violent‚ wicked stepmother‚ and wife-killing baron into the fairy tales to show the negative side. With parents appropriate explanations and their own cultural translations will

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    Comparative Study of Text and Context- Transformation Essay “A transformation pays homage to the original text and reinvigorates the original ideas and values by creating a text that appeals to a new audience.” For many years‚ classic tales and texts have been transposed into contemporary forms in order to appeal to new audiences. Representative of this is the transformation of Chaucer’s ‘The Pardoners Tale‚’ a poem composed in the 1300’s‚ arising from a theological society‚ into the modern film

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    Fairy Tale Stereotypes in Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella”: Raggedly Ever After Anne Sexton’s “Cinderella” illuminates the unrealistic and prejudiced stereotypes in age-old fairy tales‚ stereotypes inadvertently etched on the minds of millions of children. Sexton uses a conversational tone that remains oblivious to the initial hardships of the “rags to riches” maiden to highlight the insignificance and passiveness of women and the influential and dominant character of men. She conveys to the world’s

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    Lene and Hans‚ who battles at the war’s front‚ and the decline of the marriage during the post-war period. Symbolically the fairy tale‚ called the "mad monstrosity in the middle of the film‚" by Sanders Brahms (Kaes‚ 149)‚ offers a diagetic forum for with which to deal with the crimes of Nazi Germany‚ as well a internally fictional parallel of Lene’s marriage. The fairy tale begins with a miller betrothing his daughter to the first suitable man who comes along. The man chosen happens to live deep

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    In the article‚ “ Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes”‚ by Samara Green‚ it talks about how fairy tales don’t make it that great for children especially young girls because the princess always waits for the “hero” to show up and save her making it look like they can’t do anything. It’s a bad influence on young girls because they should know that they can do things on their own too and not just rely on the men. This is just one of many types of stereotypes that many people “use”. Just recently‚

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    ABC Fairy Tale: Tarzan As the baby cried‚ the lonely gorilla‚ Kala‚ came to the rescue. Behind the covers‚ a baby boy was discovered. Cradled in Kala’s arms‚ the baby fussed as the jaguar Sabor appeared. Desperate to get away‚ she jumped in the boat for safety; and‚ took her new discovery to her family. Even though Kerchak didn’t want Kala to keep the baby‚ she raised Tarzan as her own. For years‚ Tarzan tried to get Kerchak’s approval. “GRRRR”‚ growled Sabor as he came out of nowhere; Tarzan

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    Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland; or‚ the Transformation: An American Tale I. The influences on Brown ’s philosophy of life: John Locke ’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding‚ published in 1689/90 laid the foundations for Rationalism‚ a typical characteristic of the age of Enlightenment in Europe and in America. In this essay Locke called for the human mind as the decisive means of judging the truth content of a notion‚ even in a religious context However‚ his intent was not to argue against

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    are actually nice‚ but seem mean due to rumors other people have made up. We don’t ever think about what happens “behind the scenes” owing to the fact that society has already given us an image of what happens. Even Samara Green‚ the author of “Fairy Tales and Gender Stereotypes”‚ said “Maybe it’s because of the books and movies we grow up learning from and the characters we idolize.” There are numerous movies out there that show the dumb jock and mean girl stereotype such as “Mean Girls” and “Clueless

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    Kind actions to others can be rewarded‚ but selfish and unkind actions to others may be punished. People’s actions may come back at them in the future. The fairy tales used are “The Golden Goose” and “Cinderella”. All of the actions people perform to society and others have consequences. People’s actions describe how someone is as a person. Cinderella’s father married another woman who brought with 2 step daughters with her. “So they took off her fine clothes‚ and put upon her an od grey cloak

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    evolutionary psychologists will tell you that‚ statistically‚ step-parents are far more dangerous than birth moms and dads. It’s called the Cinderella effect — a nod to the unsavoury acknowledgment that the evil step-parent is not just a character in fairy tales. Step-parents beat children under five to death at per capita rates more than 120 times higher than do genetic parents‚ according to an analysis of Canadian homicide data from 1974 to 1990. And overall‚ step-parents abuse and kill kids at

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