In the critique Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior, Elisabeth Panttaja critiques a version of a Cinderella story, Ashputtle, by Jakob and Wilelm Grimm. Panttaja goes in depth about hidden details of Ashputtle and how Ashputtle is not actually motherless, and the real mother is behind all the magic. Even though Panttaja states that Ashputtle’s real mother is violent and evil, she is actually a sweet, godmother like person. Panttaja argues that even though Ashputtle does not have a real living mother, the hazel branch, given to her by her father that she planted at her mother’s grave, which grows into a tree, acts as her mother by taking care of Ashputtle (Panttaja 659). The tree grants Ashputtle’s every wish; from her clothes to helping out with chores.
Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House ends on either a very negative note, or a very positive note depending upon how one views such situations. At the end of the story, Nora Helmer leaves her oppressive, belittling husband, and children - who are hardly her children - behind to rediscover and educate herself. Ibsen states, “The wife in the play ends by having no idea of what is right or wrong; natural feeling on one hand and belief in authority on the other have altogether bewildered her.” (Ibsen. 409) Nora’s situation was a very unique one with many tunnels and slides to be trekked. Her exit was a fully rational, completely acceptable action.
My plan succeed. When we’re back to my house I immediately hid the key while she was having a look around my house to avoid her to escape. When Lucy was looking at my father’s picture, I said he went to war for a really long time, I was surprised when she said her father went to a war too. I offered her a cup of tea and sat with her next to the fire. Lucy started telling me that she likes winter because she can play snow ball fights, ice-skating and also Christmas, she loves receiving so many presents.
Pan’s Labyrinth Essay #1 The film seen on Wednesday January 20th was Pan’s Labyrinth. This movie is about a young girl, Ofelia, who is in the setting of wartime in Spain. As her past time, she reads lots of fairy tale stories and soon enough due to her insecurities in this new environment with a new father and new stresses, she creates a fantasy world to feel better and survive the harsh reality. In this world, she meets a faun who gives her three tasks to complete in order to reach immortality and become a princess. Soon enough at the end of the story, the girl is killed by her new father, or the Captain of the army, for taking away his son.
Every villain has a reason to why they become wicked in the first place. The Evil Queen makes many appearances in different stories for example the show Once Upon a Time or basically anything Disney related. The Evil Queen wasn’t always as bitter as she is commonly known for. It’s impossible for someone to just be born angry and bitter, something had to cause it. In the Disney book, My side of the Story: Snow White/Evil Queen, The Queen marries someone whom she does not love at all just for the title of becoming the Queen of all the land.
Close Study of Text – Briar Rose * Briar Rose By Jane Yolen * Sleeping Beauty * Fairytale story Allegory * Good vs. Evil * King and Queen had a child called Aurora * Invited fairy’s to birth * Bad fairy gives baby a curse * Prick finger on spinning wheel * 16th Birthday she falls into a deep sleep for 100 years * A prince tries to save her * Thorns grow all around the tower * Prince kisses her and she wakes up QUOTES: * “And even though to tell a story is to tell some kind of untruth, one often suspects that what seems to be untruth is really a hidden truth” – Ralph Harper * Importance of Storytelling “Stories...We are made up of stores. And even the ones that seem the
Same Name but Not the Same Story There are many different similarities and differences between, the poem “Knives”, Disney’s “Cinderella”, and the “Grimm’s Cinderella Story.” But there are three major elements of the story, the movie, and the poem that separate the three version of “Cinderella”. These three elements are how the animals help her and what they do, how magic is portrayed in the movie and in the story, and how the prince finds out who Cinderella actually is. The Grimm’s Cinderella Story portrays the animals helping Cinderella as, two white pigeons that drop a dress upon Cinderella whenever she cries underneath the hazel tree that is above her mother’s grave. The two pigeons also warn the prince of the step sister’s lies about the shoes being theirs, after they cut pieces of their feet off so their feet would fit into the slipper. Also towards the end of the story in, The Grimm Brother’s Version, the two white pigeons attack the two stepsisters and pecked out each of their eyes.
The punctuation causes a pause which means that the tone is slow. Since the woman is speaking about her new born child, and since she just delivered her child, the pace is slow, and the tone is about love for her new baby. The literal meaning of the second quote, “One cry and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral in my/Victorian nightgown.” (Plath 13-14lns. ), is that the woman was awakened by the baby’s cry. The woman is sleepy, but she stumbles from her bed to check on the baby.
“I was the princess in the castle in the sleeping woods… we all fell asleep, but the prince kissed me awake. Only me”, this is where Gemma finally claims she is Briar Rose. Yolen uses the fairy tale genre to tell the story of Gemma, and links certain aspects of the sleeping beauty story to Gemma’s story. The whole of Gemma’s version of the fairy tale is ironic. A fairy tale is supposed to be happy but Gemma uses it as an allegory for the holocaust.
Her reasons to be pregnant at that age? Well, it's unplanned. Yes, unplanned pregnancies do not happen only to teenagers, my mom had one. They said it was a blessing. Anyway, I was there when my mom experienced 50% survival chance (same with my little sister), and had to undergo caesarean delivery due to pregnancy complications.