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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...

Learning and Utilizing Language

the language acquisition device" (p. 255). Others say that language development is a reaction to environment. This writer/tutor ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

Original Fairytale Writing

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

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 its Psychosocial Implications

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fairytale Modernization

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

Fairytales and Gender Roles

In five pages classic fairytales are examined in terms of their portrayal of conventional gender roles with the views of anthropol...

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...

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...

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...