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Fairy Tales
Analytical Essay # 106646
Fairy Tales
Looks at several 'happily ever after' fairy tales and their relationship to culture.
2,240 words (approx. 9 pages) |
3 sources |
MLA | 2008
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Paper Summary:
This paper explains that, like myths, fairy tales have great importance as cultural productions because they emphasize the basic aspects of each culture. The author relates that certain predictable ritualistic motifs, such as the wicked stepmother in "Cinderella" or the marriage between two antagonist characters, one ugly and the other beautiful, in "Beauty and the Beast", are absolutely essential fairy tale ingredients. The author also relates that the theme of love and marriage or the 'happily ever after union' is an archetype; wherein, the human being is fulfilled through his or her union with another being and the fulfillment is naturally achieved after a great quest and fantastic trials. The paper includes references to several fairy tales.From the Paper:
"Without being a general pattern, many of the folktales focus on the love union between a hero and the heroine. The blueprint here varies widely, but in many stories, the love bond is formed sometimes between two characters that belong to different worlds. It can be said in most of the stories one of the two characters that will be together "happily ever after" always pass through sufferance or great trails before the love bond is formed. Also, in almost all the fairytales, the hero is usually the active character who has to win the princess through great efforts and deeds while the latter passively waits for him. However, there are some exceptions to this rule, and in some stories the heroine is given the active role, while the prince is passive."Sample of Sources Used:
- Davidson, Hilda Ellis and Anna Chaudhri. A Companion to the Fairy Tale. Rochester: Brewer, 2003.
- "Grimm's Fairy Tales". http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/grimm10.txt
- Tatar, Maria M. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987.
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"Fairy Tales" 09 February 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Analytical-Essay-Fairy-Tales/106646>
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