"Bluebeard" and "The Ugly Duckling"

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This paper examines how violence is used by both Charles Perrault, in "Bluebeard" and Hans Christian Andersen, in "The Ugly Duckling" to present a moral lesson. The paper describes the way in which the two tales apply a characteristic literary technique, foreshadowing, to engage the reader and to make the moral message of the stories more intellectually credible by making the stories themselves more intellectually credible and more palatable to younger readers.

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"How Violence Can Serve the Moral Good: An Examination of Bluebeard and The Ugly Duckling The following paper will compare and contrast two famous children's stories - Charles Perrault's Bluebeard and Hans Christian Andersen's The Ugly Duckling - and highlight their use of violence. Specifically, the paper will look at how violence in both texts is used only to further the moral purpose of the text. To do this, the paper will examine the limited existence of violence in both texts; the paper will also examine how a conventional narrative technique, foreshadowing, is skillfully employed by both writers to engage the reader and build both stories to their dramatic conclusions. Finally, the paper will note how violence is used to bolster the moral lessons to be taken from each narrative and how it may be said that violence is essential to the required lessons being learned. "

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