The Princess Paradox Critique Alexandra Heinrich May 2012 English 120 In the article “The Princess Paradox” By James Poniewozik the author explains how “modern day” Cinderella stories have came a long way from what they once were. Although, no matter how hard we try, the Cinderella story will always end the same and our young girls will always want to be a princess, no matter how the princess is portrayed in the fairy tail. In this article, Poniewozik explains the changes that have occurred in the princess stories throughout the years, and the way that they have changed from one story to the next. He shows how the fairy tales and ideal women in movies went from being just a few years ago the “girls-kick-ass culture” to now the much more elegant fairy tales. A few years ago there were movies such as his examples “Charlie's Angels, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the Powder Puff girls” Where women were very fierce and self defendant.
But according to the article, "Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior" by Elisabeth Panttaja, the author tells us that the sweet-tempered, motherless young woman that we read about as children was an imposter. Panttaja opens her article with Cinderella's mother on her death-bed, advising her that if she is "good and pious"1, that she, the mother; "shall look down from heaven and take care of you"1. She explains that this opening scene in Cinderella sets forth the central problem that she must overcome; which is that her mother is absent. The arrival of a strong stepmother and stepsisters', and their unification to subjugate her, makes Cinderella appear weak. And the stepsisters' power is manifested because the stepmother is present.
Beginning with her obituary and framed like a film the story moves from MacNolia’s death to courtship, marriage, birth and loss of a son, before the narrative returns to her life at age 13. At this age, MacNolia started rehearsing for various competitions including the spelling bee. By the end of the book it is revealed the public result of MacNolia’s loss in the spelling bee. Her life is narrowed; she drops out of school to become a maid for a local doctor. The movie Akeelah and the Bee by Doug Atchison, set in modern day California, is the heart-warming tale of eleven-year-old girl, Akeelah Anderson.
Finger blood dropped on the snow: the white snow represents purity while red blood symbolizes sexual desire, and also means menstrual cramps, giving birth and such female growth stage. Princess was pricked her finger by the needle suggesting that her physiological has already matured, which means she has been a woman who was able to bear children. Therefore, soon after this paragraph, snow white was born. During the first six years, snow white and her stepmother lived in peace with each other. However, when she grew up until seven
Jason betrays her when he decides to remarry to the princess of Corinth, so Medea conspires to kill the princess and her father for letting it happen. She ends up doing exactly what she planned and getting away with it. In this play, Medea would represent evil and the people that she wants to kill represent goodness. As portrayed in the quote, goodness is defeated. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, Winston is the protagonist that unwillingly works for a minor part of the government called The Party.
They are both imaginary figures which might be the reason why they are given the power to modify human’s fate and lifestyle. Titania evolves Nick Bottom’s life as she treats him like a king or her equal because of her husband and Puck’s prank. After Titania is released from her delusion, she is disgusted by Bottom’s visage and abandons him in the middle of the forest. On the other hand Bottom believes that all of the event was a dream and creates a ballad about his dream. Oberon who initiates the pranks not only changed Bottom and Titania’s lives but also Lysander, Hermia, Helena, and Demetrius.
Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter 1.1 Background Not many would know that the original target audience of fairytales was adults, not youngsters (Zipes, 1999). According to Bruno Bettelheim’s’ The Uses Of Enchantment, Fairytales had their origins in an adult oral storytelling culture, where tales were told to shorten the time while one completed household chores that required physical concentration but left the mind open to wander (Bettelheim, 1975). These oral folklores were then retold and adapted throughout the 16th and 17th centuries into literary fairytales, before a collection of them was first published in Charles Perrault’s Tales of Mother Goose in 1697, which was the first recorded publication of fairytales. Up until the 19th century, famous fairytale authors like the Grimm Brothers began to rewrite these literary fairytales to appeal to the masses, including children in particular, which took much effort and removing of most of the traditional ideologies in the literary fairytale. In 1937, Walt Disney became the first film producer to release a feature length fairytale film titled “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, which was a welcome distraction from the great economic depression at that time (Zipes, 1999).
From looking at the Native American Cinderella Story told by the Algonquian people to the classic Cinderella story by Charles Perrault it is obvious that the beginning, middle, and end of their tales explain a transformation that many people put hope in to rise to good fortune. Once upon a time in a land far away… Many folktales begin this way but the beginning of a Cinderella story is much more than the setting. In all Cinderella stories the first incident that occurs is always a very sad circumstance. In Oochigeaskw The Rough-Faced Girl told by the Algonquin people it says, “The youngest girl was very small, weak, and often ill: and yet her sisters, especially the elder, treated her cruelly” (639). This sad circumstance affects the poor youngest child and sets her up for failure.
Beowulf kills Grendel’s mother in the epic poem but in the movie he makes a deal with demon leading to his downfall. In the epic poem, Beowulf returns to Geatland after he defeats Grendel’s mother where he eventually becomes king of the Geats. However, in the film they have King Hrothgar crowning Beowulf king and granting Beowulf his lovely wife, Welthow. King Hrothgar dies of old age in the epic poem but in the movie he kills himself. I believe in the movie Hrothgar knows Grendel’s mother will continue her terror upon the Danes and he does not want to be there when she does.
The demised king commissioned Hamlet to execute revenge against Claudius. Hamlet willingly accepted. As the plot advances, one tragic event follows another, all of which resulted directly or indirectly due to some form of treachery. The story depicts episodes of deep passion motivated by raft, jealousy and sadness over death and lost love. To name a few of the convoluted incidents, Hamlet was alienated from his beloved girlfriend, Ophelia.