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Fairytales and Their Significance

In three pages this paper examines the moral importance of fairytales in this discussion of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and T...

Cinderella and the 'Glass Slipper Syndrome'

ever after, and the castle needed to be cleaned. The whole fantasy fell down around the ears of many housewives in the fifties and...

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

that the feminine sphere, i.e. the domestic sphere, is nurturing and fulfilling, an area where women have control and can be creat...

The Three Little Javelinas by Susan Lowell

in Southwestern "cowboy" garb. There are two brothers dressed in chaps, sporting bandanas, and wearing cowboy hats, but the third ...

Comparative Analysis of Fairytales and 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti

Rossetti manages to construct a strong female hero within this poem which is one of the strong points of the poem (Phillips, 2002)...

Disney Version of 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'

while daydreaming, and as a result, three droplets of blood stained the freshly fallen snow. Upon seeing this, she wished for a c...

Snow White by the Brothers Grimm

tales have circulated for so long their origins are in ancient Egypt, others made their way to Germany via France (Zaleski, 2001)....

The Wizard of Oz Film as Categorized by Rick Altman

adventure" would seem to fit those films in which were not sure of the way the two leads feel about each other, but which hold out...

Cinderella Contrasts and Conflicts in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

focus on her self-respect: "I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it d...

Brothers Grimm's Hansel and Gretel and Setting

parents first attempt at abandonment is thwarted by Hansels cleverness as he drops shiny stones on the path to show them the way h...

Grimm's Fairytale Hansel and Gretel and the Forest

behavior. The influence of such forces can seem so over-powering that the parent eventually stops trying, emotionally abandoning c...

Alice in Wonderland and Harry Potter

his introduction to The Annotated Alice, Martin Gardner relates some of the complex meanings that have been attributed to Alice. F...

Essay on Hans Christian Andersen

were dashed when his voice began to change; however, an off-hand remark that referred to him as a poet inspired Andersen and he be...

Jane's Fairytale Sisters in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

In six pages the ways in which the fairytale tradition is reflected in this novel is examined in terms of the female psyche and th...

4 Versions of Sleeping Beauty

Disney's, Grimm's, Perrault's, and Basile's interpretations of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale are analyzed in eight pages. There a...

Fairytales and Use of Sexist Language

women were regarded as objects of beauty, which is exactly what Snow White is. Such demeaning writing would not be acceptable tod...

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip

In five pages this science fiction novel is analyzed within the context of its fairytale setting. There are no other sources list...

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre Fairytale

any fairy tale. Yet, despite it all, she ends up living "happily ever after." She gives the plain, abused, disregarded young girls...

Fairytale Modernization

In ten pages this paper examines the modernizing of Charles Perrault's fairytale classics including Little Red Riding Hood, Sleepi...

Storytellers Lewis Carroll and Charles Perrault

In five pages this paper discusses the complexities of the fairytales Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella, which makes them far mor...

Ronald Koertge's 'Gretel'

in fact present an intriguing message to both female and male audiences alike. Indeed, Koertges choice of subject matter is intrig...

Cinderella and its Psychosocial Implications

In 5 pages this fairytale is analyzed from a psychosocial perspective. There are 5 sources cited in the bibliography....

Original Fairytale Writing

Writing a fairytale is examined in a tutorial consisting of five pages. Two sources are cited in the bibliography....

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

Fairytales and an Application of the Theories of Marshall McLuhan

Textual message transmission as theorized by Marshall McLuhan is applied to gender stereotyping in fairytales in a paper consistin...

Brothers Grimm's Fairytales and Sources

of what they called "folklore," or the oral tradition. One story says that they were the collecting agents for a friend who was g...

Narrative Fiction and the Portrayal of Female Characters

This paper considers how prose, drama, fairytales, and religious narratives portray female characters in 9 pages. Eleven sources...

Mary Wollstonecraft's Influence on Feminism

This paper examines the works and life of Wollstonecraft in terms of her impact on women's suffrage and the women's rights movemen...

1776 to 1865 The Role of America Women

and as such the incidence of male dominance were more prevalent. It is ironic in the land which had just claimed freedom the soci...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...