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    Violence In Fairy Tales

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    Professor Rania Said Re-visioning Fairy Tales 26 June 2015 Reimagining Violence in Modern Fairy Tales Often times in literature we see modern adaptations created by authors in order to display mild to significant changes on the original piece of work. These modern adaptations reimage themes displayed in traditional versions of the fairy tales. For example‚ violence is often tamed in modern adaptations but exaggerated in original versions such as “Snow White”‚ “Hansel & Gretel”‚ “Little

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    The Tell- Tale Heart

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    With the touch of darkness in his writing‚ he came up with tales “of death‚ wickedness and crime‚ survival after dissolution‚ [and] fatality” (Charles). Although it is not clear as to why Poe wrote such dark stories in his lifetime‚ one could assume the pain from the losses of his loved ones played a role. Writing in such darkness‚ could be his coping mechanism to dealing with all the loss and pain throughout his life. “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe is suspenseful and detailed. The narrator

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    Fairy Tales Stereotypes

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    Fairy tales have existed for most‚ if not all of human existence. Fairy tales have a major influence in many children’s upbringings and their overall development. However‚ fairy tales have both positive and negative impacts on a child’s development and thus two very polar arguments have arisen. Proponents of fairy tales argue that fairy tales have positive effects on a child’s development and thus are necessary during childhood. Proponents cite that fairy tales have the power of helping children

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    Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales The introduction of the book The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim focused on the benefits of fairytales on child development. Bettelheim talks about how important developing the child’s imagination is. Developing the imagination allows children to process what they see in the world and process what they hear in stories. This gives them a good grasp on their conscience (11-12). Fairy tales allows for children to learn

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    January The Merchant’s Tale He is a wealthy‚ elderly knight and marries May. Poor old january longs for a young wife to fulfill God’s wish that man and woman marry‚ and to produce an heir to inherit his estates. After covering with his friends‚ January decides to marry a young girl named May. January is very contempt with their marriage even after his old age warrants him to become blind. He doesn’t let May out of his reach and they continue to live (as he thought) a faithful life. One day

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    Modern Fairy Tale

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    fairy tale "Once Upon a Time" by Nadine Gordimer establishes itself as a modern fairy tale. It tells the story of a happy family living in an affluent suburb of South Africa who moves emotionally from contentment to fear as they protect and isolate themselves from the rest of the population. It is a reverse fairy tale in order to represent her views of apartheid South Africa. A fairy tale is a type of short story about fairies or other mythical or magical beings. Gordimer uses fairy tale elements

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    It is expressed in the Man of Laws tale through the lawyer’s interjections into the narrative as he paints a stereotypical picture of the brutal and barbaric Saracen‚ thus expressing his power in shaping the opinions and sentiments of western readers. However‚ in the Squires Tale‚ an attempt at controlling the ‘other’ is situated in the domestication of the narrative through providing a western framework which is dismantled‚ as the inability to describe the ‘other’‚ results in western submission

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    Old Wives Tale

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    Jake Harrison Psyc 2076 Old Wives Tale September 21‚ 2011] “Cravings” A recent survey by Mothering.com found that less than 20 percent of expectant parents will wait until their baby’s birth to find out its gender. Finding out your baby’s gender with an old wives tale is not the most reliable or scientific method for predicting gender. It is said‚ that the particular food cravings you have are caused by the gender of your baby. A craving a mother gets during pregnancy is a common theme

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    Fairy Tale Analysis

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    Fairy Tale Analysis The Fairy Tale of Sleeping Beauty shows that women are very disobedient and curious when it comes to finding their sexuality and inner women hood by exploring a dark hidden room on top of the tower. A lot of fairy tales have numerous symbols that represent sex or sexuality and Sleeping Beauty is one great example. The curse that the thirteenth fairy gave her could represent menstruation when turning 15 years of age. The dark room on top of the tower could represent the curiosity

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    The Nuns Priest's Tale

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    Presented light-heartedly‚ the Nun’s Priest’s Tale follows the exploits of a boastful rooster named Chanticleer. In line with Chanticleer’s pride‚ and readiness to accept flattery‚ the tale provides an insightful moral. Namely‚ the Nun’s Priest wittily reminds the audience that‚ “being careless and negligent and trusting and flattery”‚ can lead to no good--in Chanticleer’s case‚ near-death. This moral‚ the tale as a whole‚ and other noteworthy themes‚ are brought about by the tale’s fable form‚ and

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