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Past and Present Fairy Tales

human spiritual life and then comes back with a message." The usual heros adventure will start with someone "from whom something ...

Real Life Fairy Tales and Myths

stories that depict women as helpless, or looking for a Prince charming. The same people who say that the stories are too violent ...

Kindergarten Children and Reading Aloud

2000). Reading aloud is definitely the best way to transmit this understanding to young children. Reading instruction for young ch...

A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

Discussing Some of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

in turn seduce the wife and/or daughter of the miller. In the end a ridiculous fight breaks out wherein the students seem to win, ...

Original Adventure Story 'Sun Solders'

and others call him "Prairie Dog." Why would someone call a squirrel a dog? Maybe they...

Global Consequences of the Spanish American War

This paper examines the 1895 to 1898 Spanish American War in an overview of its global consequences past and present in 10 pages....

Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, William Shakespeare's Othello and Social Issues

In 5 pages the ways in which these literary works consider past and present social issues are discussed....

Ella Enchanted/Cinderella

opens just after her birth. Like all babies, she is crying. Lucinda, a rather stupid fairy, is intent on giving Ella a "gift" and ...

Versions of “Cinderella”

she isnt such a ninny; not only that, but there is an explanation for some of her behavior. In the French tale, her father is aliv...

Interpreting Fairy Tale Illustration: Cinderella

artists intrinsic complexity. Kneeling at the base of a delicate tree with head tipped upward, eyes closed and hands brought toge...

Gold and Bettelheim: Fairy Tales

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

'Grim Fairy Tales and Gory Stories' by Aviva Layton

to see if they had a certain picture book, the librarian informed her that the book was in their collection, but was not suitable ...

Lasting Influence of Fairy Tales

In five pages the lasting influence of fairy tales upon attitudes are examined within the context of Writing and Reading Across th...

Elder Fairytale

survived and were content with that. The little girl, however, was not happy with such a life. She wanted more. But, she never c...

Jon Scieszka's The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales

In five pages this paper discusses storytelling within the context of this work by Jon Scieszka along with The Classic Fairy Tales...

C.S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and the Elements of Fairy Tale

of some moral message in the end. Through danger the characters are made stronger, and they are developed more powerfully, truly p...

Carl Jung's Possible Influence on Grimm's Fairy Tales

but collective experience, an inherited set of "primal data" (Jacobi 8) that all people share. It is a compilation of universal co...

Jung's Archetypes as They Correlate to Fairy Tales

An article that suggests the theory that Jung's theories and archetypes can be applied to interpret certain fairy tales. This 11 ...

Fairytales and the Portrayal of Women

In seven pages this paper analyzes Grimm's Fairy Tales in terms of the portrayal of women and how this reflects the roles they pla...

Death's Role and Meaning in Fairy Tales

necessity. Beyond the obvious, however, lurks an even deeper meaning to the employment of death as an integral part of fairy tale...

Children's Fairy Tales and Their Morals

In three pages this paper discusses how preschool children learn morals and important life lessons through fairy tales. Five sour...

"The Tiger's Bride" and "Beauty and the Beast" - A Comparison

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Tiger's Bride" and the classic fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast". Thematic diff...

Fragment Unity in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

notice that the fragments belong together, even though they do not necessarily share the same narrator or even the same point of v...

Geoffrey Chaucer's Writings and Bird Symbolism

natural fears and perplexities and institutionalize social views (Malinowski 11). These stories and the use of language, then, de...

3 Canterbury Tales and their Story Morals

In 6 pages this paper analyzes the morals in the selections 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' 'The Nun's Priest's Tale,' and 'The Miller'...

The Canterbury Tales and the Discussion of Love

In five pages this paper examines how contrasting attitudes about love are represented in The Knight's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Ta...

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and Themes of Morality and Immorality

In eight pages this paper discusses how Chaucer addressed morality and immorality in such stories as 'The Friar's Tale,' 'The Prio...

Fear of Death and Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages the fears Chaucer expressed about death particularly in 'The Nun's Priest Tale,' 'The Pardoner's Tale,' and 'The Mil...

Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and Social Class

a man who liked to demonstrate his position as more than it honestly was, socially speaking. "He hid his debt well. He wore daintl...