Women's Roles in Fairytales

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This paper explains that young female children enjoy reading fairy tales; therefore, these stories have a huge impact on these little girls' lives, such as waiting for "prince charming" to marry them and being dependant on the male figure. The author points out that the movie "Ever After" shows that women can play a big role in the decision making process that men have towards issues of their daily lives. The paper relates that Lieberman comments that through fairy tales young children are being taught that physically attractive girls will end up better than the ugly girls; however, the movie "Ever After" proves this wrong because it teaches women to speak their heart and have strong personalities to achieve anything they want, no matter what they look like.

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"The Cinderella in the story even challenges the prince physically and intellectually several times throughout the movie. "Ever After", unlike the typical fairy tale that we have all heard, encourages women to think while incorporating modern thought into it. This movie is a good example for girls; they don't need a strong prince to rescue them, instead they should put in the effort of saving someone else for a change. In the movie, Danielle does not try to get saved by Prince Charles. Instead, she tries to make other peoples lives better while encouraging Prince Charles to change this point of view. Women in fairy tales, as mentioned before, should not try to persuade his prince into doing things. Fairy tales picture women doing things not influencing the prince in any way."

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