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    Not all fairy tales are created equal, and not all of them are chockablock with pretty princesses, brave knights, evil witches and mean goblins. Read them with an open mind, and you'll see that fairy tales are fascinating tools to teach values and critical thinking to your children. Have you ever wondered why fairy tales are always in vogue, even with their gory violence, shallow characters and unbelievable storylines? When you look closely at them, you can find some sort of wisdom hidden underneath

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    first book Shadow Dance, after that, she published The Magic Toyshop which revealed Carter’s fascination with fairy tales. As for The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, it is a short story collection that I’m going to analyze in this essay. Carter, as the supporter of the feminist movement, many of her works was rewritten from the western fairy tales. And she believes that traditional fairy tales maintain and extend the dominant values in a patriarchal society, and these are the machines for the ideological

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    Fairy Tales summary and reflection This being one of the most interesting units so far, from the new understanding of how fairy tales work, to how fun they are read it was definitely a good unit. We talked about two events in which fairy tales were usually shared. These events being Veglia and Filo. We talked about the rules of a fairy tale, how they’ve changed over the years, the symbolism and different interpretations of them. A lot of this information was fairy new, however, a lot of the fairy

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    Maria Tatar argues in her book The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales are 1. Rise of national identity and culture 2.Dissolution 3. Political and religious refugees and 4. Change in technology. With all four of these being relevant to the time, it sets up the importance of the remake of the fairy tale. We have to look critically at where we are and where we are going because of our pop culture and politics. While some may argue that fairy tales have become less important to society as we are advancing

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    Fairy Tales have definitely idealized beauty, they have taught women that a slim waist, a beautiful face and being poised will land you a prince and a successful future as a princess. I remember as a child thinking that I needed to look like that in order to find a man that would appreciate my beauty before he appreciated anything else. I would compare my face to Snow White’s and try to find as many resemblances as I could in order so I could feel beautiful. Princesses in fairy tales were described

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    Escaping this constant tension, she enters the fairy world, although sinister, here she is more in control (Zipes 2008). She is, as Pan tells her, a princess and her objectives are clear, she is not passive as she is in the real world. Although some characters are still comparatively larger than her the fairy world seems made for her. The small tunnels she crawls along are only child size as is the door she creates by drawing with chalk. Low down a miniature it is a portal to the other world only

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    Truth of Fairy Tales: Sexual Abuse (Gender Discrimination), Feminism, Violence, and Modern Anti-Fairy Tales For centuries, fairy tales resolved dark and violent stories that were most likely focused on the harsh and violent human experiences. The main purpose of fairy tales was to give the reader warnings and understandings of the crucial and harsh world by showing fears through the stories. The various narratives have settled during the 17th to 20th centuries by several writers and fairy tales have

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    Fairy Tales Battelheim

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    It appears to be that no matter where a person had lived as a child, everyone has crossed paths with a translation of the more common fairy tales such as Cinderella. Whether it be the sugar coated version made up of happily ever afters for each character involved or the grim version that chopped off toes, this fairy tale has most likely staked its claim on every child’s most memorable childhood experiences. However, not many children were aware at the time of the true meaning that is at the base

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    by Marvel and Tales, the journal of fairy-tale studies. This article emphasize how the idea of a wicked stepmother became a staple of popular fairy tales traditions. The author uses different grimm’s fairy tales such as, Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, etc. To support her argument of the use and image of an evil stepmother. She gave opinions of actually stepmothers and how they felt about this stereotypes. Finally she emphasizes that postmodern fairy tales have made a change in the use

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    Old Fairy Tales Analysis

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    The fairy tales of old often have a sparse and often vague approach when it comes to characterization. This problem was more than likely brought about due to how these tales were told to children and how these stories more than likely changed over time, via word of mouth. Yet, as we have progressed and have begun a movement to novelize nearly everything in our society, we have come across the predicament of how these classic caricatures must be brought into modern society. One of the biggest companies

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