Critique of “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior” In the article “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja states, a not so obvious but true point, that Cinderella is not the innocent orphaned girl we would expect. She also makes it clear that Cinderella’s mother plays a vital role in Cinderella’s life. She plays a role by doing what she had promised Cinderella on her death bed. She told Cinderella “Dear child be good and pious. Then the dear Lord shall always assist you, and I
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
change it by creating a heroine who possessed the antithesis of these traits. Indeed, Jane may be a plain woman, but she is an intelligent one; she is also self-confident, strong-willed, and morally conscious (Harris 42). She not only trusts in her ability to make decisions, but also in her freedom to do so. Such traits will be necessary to guide her in her journey to self-fulfillment. The first obstacle that Jane comes across is her own background. Usually, one can count on family or position
seriousness; our hearts are beating with wild excitement. This then is the authoress, the unknown power whose books have set all London talking, reading, speculating; some people even say our father wrote the books – the wonderful books... The moment is so breathless that dinner comes as a relief to the solemnity of the occasion, and we all smile as my father stoops to offer his arm; for, genius though she may be, Miss Brontë can barely reach his elbow. My own personal impressions are that she is somewhat
(pace Mary Shelley1) of Enlightenment faith in the powers of the rational mind to apprehend the world. In her Introduction to The Female Thermometer Terry Castle demonstrates how Enlightenment ideologies re-contextualize the unnatural (and supernatural) so that their unexplained appearance in a reasonable world evokes the troubled sense of the uncanny, the unsettling identification of the unfamiliar within the familiar: [T]he Freudian uncanny is a function of enlightenment: it is that which confronts
offstage figure of Ruskin and the aesthetic-ethical dialectics……………………………………………………....... 293 VI.4.2. The author as guest: authorial identity and difference.………… 298 VI.4.3. Decontextualizing drama/Performance: Fanny’s First Play as a Pre- Barthesan critique of the “text”……………………..... 302 VI.4.4. Structure as Signification: self reflexivity...........................…..... 305 VI.4.5. Textual models/ generic traditions and self- reflexivity……....... 307 VII. CONCLUSION.........................
“pursuit of happiness.” In Fitzgerald’s parallel, “the poor boy,” Gatsby, naïvely determines to amass wealth in whatever ways necessary, the implication being that nothing can preclude or obstruct his winning the damsel’s hand. Like the archetypal Cinderella story, the most deserving must always win Prince Charming and become heir to a massive fortune. Tragically, Gatsby had learned well from American society that dishonesty and illicit means of procuring a fortune will win what pure love and resolve
romance of the Protestant Will. My Introduction then concludes with exegeses of two of Thomas Hardy’s strongest novels, The Return of the Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge. Lionel Stevenson finds in Victorian fiction most of the aesthetic values that so many of us consider “Modern,” after which Michael Wheeler attempts to locate the starting-points of the Victorian sensibility. In a shrewd essay, Julia Prewitt Brown examines the complex relations between finances and marriage in early Victorian fiction
Fundamentals of Strategy to give you what you need: a clear and concise view of the subject, an ambition to put that into practice, and – of course – success in your studies. We also hope you’ll be just as intrigued by the key issues of strategy as we are! So, read on and good luck! Gerry Johnson Kevan Scholes Richard Whittington * P.S. In order to log in to the website, you’ll need to register with the access code included with all new copies of the book. FUNO_A01.qxd 10/15/08 11:51 Page
indigenous models of communication and development through participatory research” (Fair & Shah, 1997:19). Therefore, today almost nobody would dare to make the optimistic claims of the early years any longer. However, the implicit assumptions on which the so-called dominant modernization paradigm is built do still linger on and continue to influence the policy and planning-making discourse of major actors in the field of communication for development, both at theoretical and applied levels. From Modernization