It helps parents realize the messages that movies can transmit and let‘s them decide how often they will influence their children by media. Disney is one of the largest media companies in the world. They allow girls to have fairy-tales. They are simply called fairy- tales for the fact that they are something you can dream of and hope for. Representations of women in Disney films are due partly to the fact that Walt Disney's personal feelings about family life shaped the Disney Company, and partly to the fact that his attitudes mirrored the patriarchal cultural beliefs of the 1940's about what roles women should play in society (O'Brien.
In traditional fairy stories one starts with the helpless maiden, especially with Sleeping Beauty. The audience knows that she will be rescued and a happily ever after will be following it straight after. However, one intresting pattern that develops in fairytales is that the rescuer of the bewitched person has himself or herself been bewitched or persecuted. Jane Yolen uses the name Briar Rose for another name for sleeping beauty. There have been many versions of the tale, which not many people know about, and they haven't always been for little children, they were more scarier and ruder than the disney - style and were told to a wider audience.Yolen has taken the story of sleeping Beauty which is (Briar Rose) she developed the parrallel stories of two women: Becca searching for her grandmother's story, and Gemma's story in the extermination camp of chelmmo and afterwards with the partisans of Poland during WWII.
It is clear within the short stories that these relationships have been distorted, in order for Carter to present the reader with her opinion of issues within society. However, not all relationships are seen in a sinister manner, there are few exceptions within the collection of short stories that are provided to the reader in order of a comparison. Carter uses them in order, to parody the typical fairytale, thus to bring forward the point she wants to make to the reader. The relationships within The Bloody Chamber are presented distorted with a sinister element as a way for Carter to reinterpret the gothic element in a more up to date way, for the re-telling of fairytales. The story of ‘The Bloody Chamber’, presents the unusual relationship of Husband and Wife, through the characters of the protagonist and Marquis.
Structure: In The Uses of Enchantment, Bruno Bettelheim says that the purpose for fairy tales frequently is to help children grow up, in particular to come to terms with adult sexuality. Some critics classify Oates' story as a modern fairy tale. Fairy tales share basic characteristics, such as they illustrate a moral or teach a lesson, they contain elements of magic or the supernatural, they follow traditional openings ("Once upon a time") and conclusions (violence and death or happily ever after), they contain stock characters (e.g., a wicked step-mother, Prince Charming). Which of these elements does Oates use? Does her story fit Bettelheim's comment?
Discuss The Ways in Which Fairytales May be Seen As Either Reinforcing Gender Stereotypes or Subverting Them. Fairytales are present in all westernized cultures yet many stories are so similar they could even be described as different versions of the one tale. In each version of a fairytale the underlying story seems to be the same not only in structure but in moral meaning as well. Therefore these universal stories not only have a world wide reach but in fact have the same meanings and morals within them, it becomes even more important then to see what gender stereotypes these fairytales may include. ‘Snow White’ is a tale which, like many, has a variety of versions yet some seem to approach gender stereotypes in opposite ways.
Compare and Contrast Essay A fairy tale is a short story that usually includes fictional characters involved with unlikely, magical events that lead to a happy ending. The “Cinderella” tales written by Charles Perrault and Anne Sexton contain a number of similarities and differences. While both Charles Perrault in “The Little Glass Slipper” and Anne Sexton in “Cinderella” use similar characters, such as Cinderella and the godmother, to help tell the story of Cinderella, the different plot structures and events happening suggest that the story of Cinderella can be written in many different ways. The characters in Perrault’s “The Little Glass Slipper” vary from the types of characters in other stories about Cinderella. In Perrault’s version of the fairy tale, Cinderella is the protagonist.
In the Fairy Tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ how has language changed, through the many versions, over time? Originally, Little Red Riding Hood was written as a moralistic bed time story. In the Charles Perrault version high frequency lexis such as ‘good’ and ‘little’ is used throughout in order to enable children to understand the happenings, whilst also highlighting the audience, for who the story is aimed at. The protagonist, Little Red Riding Hood, is presented by Perrault to be obedient, portrayed through the other characters imperatives, “Go, my dear,” “Take her cake,” “Come get into bed.” Little Red Riding Hood adheres to these commands ‘immediately’ as the adverb displays. Obedience was used in order to provide an example of how girls should act towards their superiors, in particular, their parents.
Cinderella is a Classic fairytale that most people have grown up watching or reading. There are also many versions of Cinderella around the world that told a tale of a young girl who went through many hardships and in the end married her prince charming with the help of some animal friends and a fairy Godmother. In "Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior" Elisabeth Panttaja examined Grimm’s Cinderella and wanted her audience to see the deeper meaning in the story in which the reader is left questioning the morality behind this fairytale. Good writers can change their reader’s mind or even move their audiences into actions though the art of persuasion and that’s exactly what Elisabeth Panttaja did in “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior". She used pathos and logos to persuade her audience to look at Cinderella in a whole new perspective.
Dayane Sanchez CLT 3370-04 October 10th, 2013 Essay # 1 Disney’s Hercules vs. Mythological Heracles Disney is renowned for its adaptation of tragic stories into whimsical fairy tales. As the audience for the tales differ, so do the stories. It’s depiction of Heracles is no exception, as a story of murder, betrayal, and tragedy turns into a tale about one’s worth and place in the world. While we may find the same characters portrayed in Greek mythology, many times their roles are changed or intertwined with that of others. This, however, doesn’t keep us from learning about the basic struggles of the hero and where they take him.
Because of the psychoanal Fairy tales help inculcate the norms of society into young minds consciously, but subconsciously may provide an attractive stereotyped number of roles, locations, and timetables for an errant life script. To date, the scientific structural analysis of scripts has been based on the Script Matrix (Steiner, 1966). The history of psychoanalytic interpretations of fairy tales goes back to the times of Freud. Bettelheim has produced one of the most thorough interpretations and has stressed the significance of these stories in children's development. Working with fairy tales might help our clients to answer the following eternal questions: 1.