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Fairytale Modernization

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

Fairytales and Sigmund Freud

In six pages the Rapunzel, The Goose Girl, and The White Snake fairytales are subjected to a Freudian psychological interpretation...

China, Japan and the Impact of Modernization

for China to accept the concept that anything "good" or even worth doing could originate outside of China. While some forces withi...

Modernization as Ideology by Michael Latham

by scholars associated with the Kennedy Administration, such as Walt Rostow and Marion Levy. Latham shows how the heightened state...

Brothers Grimm's Rapunzel

to herself that the prince will love her more than "old Dame Gothel" (the enchantress). She asks the woman why shes so heavy: "T...

Realism and fairytale in Jane Eyre

it wasnt always practicing what it preached. There was also a stigma attached to mental illness that touched not only the suffere...

Realism and Fantasy in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

way of interacting with the world around her. Is this a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Comparative Analysis of The Brave Tailor and The Tinder Box

In five pages these nineteenth century fairytales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen are contrasted and compared. ...

Children and Fairytales

that some children might find fairy tales to be a bit overwhelming. However, it is this precise extent of interaction that expert...

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...

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...

Death's Significance and Meaning in Celtic Fairytales

what fairy tales are, in relationship to other types of stories. In doing this we focus on the work of Marie-Louis Von Franz, a ve...

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)....

Fairytales and Their Importance

is true even of the fairy stories that originated with Han Christian Andersen, such as the Ugly Duckling (Zipes, 1985). Th...

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...

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...

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...

Cinderella and its Psychosocial Implications

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

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...

Andrew Lang as the Arabian Nights' Storyteller

In eleven pages this paper discusses how Andrew Lang becomes a storyteller in his vivid portrayal of the Arabian Nights' tales whi...

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...