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    aids children in recognizing anger, it teaches them that they will get punished if they get angry but it also show children that anger do not last. 3. It help familiarize children the feeling of happiness and unhappiness. The characters in the fairy tales go through stages in their life that they experience unhappiness. However, in the end the characters are happy again because of their emotional strengths. It tells

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    Flatness In Fairy Tales

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    In English 102 we’ve discussed four elements of traditional fairy tales. One of the four is flatness where characters aren’t developed. Abstraction is when the characters use “open language” such as dead. Beautiful. Red. Blue. Intuitive logic is used when characters Magic is normal, no one in the story questions. The main component of Fairy Tale that Kate distinguishes is Flatness. Flatness alludes to the ways characters are depicted in children's stories. It is a sort of an across the board characterization

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    Certain psychologist have hypothesized that fairytales represent the most primitive way the mind operates, and within certain folktales, the true message is possible hidden beneath symbols. One folktale in particular, Little Red Riding Hood, is full of symbols with possible deeper meanings. For example some people have speculated that the red hood that Little Red Riding Hood wears is a symbol of the girls sexuality and the “little” in her nickname places an emphasis on her budding nature. That is

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    Fairy Tales by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm

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    Introduction: Fairy tales were a big part of my childhood. I started my research on fairy tales written by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Fairy tales often have a character that goes on a journey or an adventure. During his journey he encounters mystical beings that help or hurt the characters success. When I was a child, my grandparents would tell my sister and I stories like “Jack and the Bean Stalk” and “Little Red Riding Hood”. My grandfather would always act out the part of the wolf or the giant,

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    influence on many things such as, music, to movies, and even fairy tales that we thought we knew so well. More specifically, society has influenced the Grimm fairy tales. The original Grimms ' tales that were collected would now be considered dark, gruesome, explicit and something that children should not, for any reason read. Because of this, over time society wanted a change in what their children were hearing, reading and now seeing. The tales have been changed and sugar coated to become as what we

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    Adverse Effects of Fairy Tales on Children Fairy tales like Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White have always been the best bedtime stories that have the power to establish a strong bond in the relationships between parents and their children. Reading fairy tales, not only enhances children's imaginations, but also helps them use different perspectives to see and judge the protagonists and antagonists in the stories. Unfortunately, in most fairy tales, female characters in Rapunzel, Snow

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    outline the origin of the literary fairy tale and its features as a genre. I will then discuss how, despite heavy feminist criticism, the genre gained popularity among late twentieth-century feminist writers. The genre of fairy tales has its roots in folklore and in oral tradition. Jack Zipes remarks that fairy tales and folk tales are today generally confused with one another and that: He also maintains that “fairy tales have been in existence as oral folk tales for thousands of years and first

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    Fairy tales are important part of every individual because in the past grandparents used to tell us the stories about fairies and witches. Cinderella is very interesting story. One of the most popular and lovable fairy tales is Cinderella, it is the story of beautiful girl whose stepmother abuses her, and later in the story she missing sandal; there are many other stories related to this. For example, Rhodopis, Yeh-Hsien, Donkeyskin, The Three Gowns, Catskin, and The Princess in the Suit of Leather

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    Oscar Wilde And His Fairy Tales I. Introduction Wilde, Oscar (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills) (b. Oct. 16, 1854, Dublin, Ire ?d. Nov. 30, 1900, Paris, Fr.) Irish wit, poet and dramatist whose reputation rests on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere's Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1899). He was a spokesman for Aestheticism, the late19th-century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake. However, Oscar Wilde's takeoff of his enterprise and, his shaping of his characteristic

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    Versions of Cinderella have been around since first century AD, telling ancient stories of a young girl either being mistreated by her stepmother or father. The most familiar and common story with the glass slipper, pumpkin carriage and fairy godmother was written by French author Charles Perrault in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697. But for centuries before and after this Cinderella has been told in hundreds of other cultures such as Egypt, China, and all throughout Europe to teach

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