She ends up falling down the rabbit hole involuntarily, which ends up taking her (and the reader) to a world of magic and make believe. The authors Wonderland is a place where Alice finds some of the characters bizarre and abnormal. She runs into a variety of characters along her adventure, a lot of which likely represented real people to Lewis Carroll. Throughout the first story, Alice finds herself growing and shrinking, at random times, which the author does not repeat in the sequel Through the looking Glass. In the second book, it is too curiosity that leads Alice into the imaginary world in it.
His father was a “pure blood” wizard and his mother was a “mud blood”. Pure bloods are wizards that came from a wizard family; a mud blood is a wizard born into a muggle, nonmagical, family. This is similar to the many heroes that were born from a father that was a god and a mother that was a mortal. Harry was born into an era where the wizardry had been taken over and terrorized by a powerful wizard, Lord Voldemort, which not even the greatest wizard could defeat. When he was just an infant Voldemort heard a prophecy that stated, that Harry would be the wizard to one day destroy Lord Voldemort.
These supposed bedtime stories do not just exist to put children to sleep and at ease. Instead, as Bettelheim suggests, fairy tales also lend themselves to a dark, yet important narrative. Using Bettelheim’s discussion of a fairy tale, this essay will compare and contrast the ways that the horror film Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992) and the Disney film Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, 1991) though different in appearance, are fairy tales based on their endings, their tone of optimism amidst terror, their ability to render “truthful” pictures of life, and their presentation of a common universal problem. As Bettelheim writes, “An even more significant difference between these two kinds of story is the ending, which in myths is nearly always tragic. For this reason, some of the best known stories found in collections of fairy tales don’t really belong in this category” (Bettelheim 37).
In order to be seen as a good adaptation, a film had to come to terms with what was considered as the “spirit” of the book and to take into account all layers of the book’s complexity (Marciniak 60). One of the most famous fairy tale and folklore writers is Charles Perrault. Perrault has written many fairy tales. One of his famous fairy tales is The Sleeping Beauty in The Wood. This story has been adapted into many versions of movie, one of them is made and produced by Walt Disney Production as a cartoon medium entitled Sleeping Beauty
Those same tales are told in every culture, usually changing names and other characteristics to correlate to that particular culture. For example, Cinderella may be known as “’Aschenputtel in Germany, and Catskin in England’ (1).” Fairy Tale readers will notice that while there is no original origin of the tales- the story structure remains the same, as does the plot. These stories are commonly told to children by the women around them to entertain or scare them. Those women were often older and the stories told by them are referred to as “old wives’ tales (1)”. Maria Tatar argues that fairy tales hold a special place in society not only in appearing in mainstream media for children and adults, but also in how they relate to the real problems faced by the readers.
It can also guide us in living our lives. In the movie, ‘The Wizard of Oz’ there is a relation to Plato’s cave allegory throughout the movie. The main character Dorothy ends up in a “dream land” filled with a Scarecrow (Hunk), Tin Man (Hickory), and the Cowardly Lion (Zeke) that therefore are make believe. During the movie they are on a mission to find the wizard, hoping the wizard will be able to give them answers to the questions they have and explain the odd dreams Dorothy seems to be having. The dreams seem to keep having a Glinda, the Good Witch of the North and a Wicked Witch of the West, obviously the good witch telling her the positive things to go and do and the bad witch telling her the complete opposite, trying to keep her away from doing the things Dorothy really needs and wants to do.
This is where she meets the Mad Hatter (Depp) who believes that Alice is the same person who visited them years ago and has now returned to slay the Jabberwocky, who is a very powerful dragon controlled by the Red Queen. All of Alice’s future encounters are pre-determined by an ancient scroll that encompasses details on the history and future of Wonderland. When Alice first arrives to Wonderland, many people have their doubts on whether or not she is the Alice depicted in the scroll, but the Mad Hatter and his friends are sure that the “right” Alice has returned. The Red Queen then kidnaps the Mad Hatter and Alice sets it as her goal to set him free and obtain the only thing that can kill the Jabberwocky. This Vorpal Sword, along with her dedication to the Hatter, is what drives her to risk her life for the people of Wonderland and return the throne to the rightful person, the white queen (Hathaway).
Painting ladybugs, teaching birds to fly, and preparing their rainbow tubes among many other things. Clank and Bobble introduce Tinker Bell to Fairy Mary, the leader of the Tinker fairies. Fairy Mary leads the Tinker workshop where all of the work gets done. Tinker Bell stumbles upon a few items on the beach which later become known as “lost things”. Lost things are items that wash up on to Never Land Island from the mainland.
The children, Saucepan, Silky and Moonface go through here to rescue Connie. * The Nursery Rhyme Land All nursery rhyme people live here. The children all go up to visit Miss Muffet. They have to rescue Saucepan from her spider. * The Land of Dame Slap (Dame Snap in modern editions) Where Dame Slap has a school for bad pixies and fairies.
CHARACTERS Alice - The seven-year-old protagonist of the story. Alice believes that the world is orderly and stable, and she has an insatiable curiosity about her surroundings. The White Rabbit -The White Rabbit is figure of some importance, but he is manic, timid, and occasionally aggressive. The Queen of Hearts - The ruler of Wonderland. The Queen is severe and domineering, continually screaming for her subjects to be beheaded.