Abstract This paper examines how most fairy tales told to young children follow a similar story line and how not all of the traditional tales have an aura of joy encircling the fair heroine. It discusses how Charles Perrault's "Bluebeard" is the stuff of nightmares and looks at two modern horror films, "The Cell" and "From Hell", that use traits from the story. It shows how themes include serial killings, a psychotic killer, secretive places of torment, and a final victim that arranges her own escape.
From the Paper "Another recent film that also uses traits from Perrault's "Bluebeard" is the 2001 release, ?From Hell.? Set in London during the Victorian age, the plot centers on a detective trying to solve the serial murders of the infamous Jack the Ripper. A group of female friends, cleverly called ?the unfortunates,? are being murdered one by one, and each time the killer takes one of her internal organs with him. At first, police don?t think much of one of the town's prostitutes getting murdered, but when each girl in this group of friends becomes a victim and the officials find their corpses with body parts missing, detectives look for a motive. They point out that this killing ?is methodical. The butchering is irrational, yet meticulous and deliberate, altogether a different breed of killer.? "
Abstract 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.
From the Paper "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. "
Abstract This paper discusses and compares the varied recountings of the story of "Bluebeard." It looks at the plots of the different recountings and the focus of the stories. The paper also briefly discusses the differences between the adult versions and the children's versions of the story. The paper concludes that the tale still circulates, but it is no longer published as intended, for children.
From the Paper "This is a shame, for in many ways, Bluebeard was a very interesting story, one that could provide numerous interpretations and retellings as the years went on, and the tale was allowed to spread from Europe to the rest of the world. Perhaps the women would again become heroes and husband-foilers, and help to augment the influx of passive fairy tale heroines into the mainstream. Or perhaps, Bluebeard may have become an evil witch, and the wife, a captured husband, we may never know. In many ways, the tale still circulates, but it is no longer published as intended, for children."
Contrasts the heroes of "The Iliad" by Homer and Joshua in the Bible versus "Bluebeard" by Kurt Vonnegut and "The Soldier's Home" by Earnest Hemingway.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, 2002, $ 26.95
Abstract An analysis of the heroes presented in "The Iliad" by Homer, "The Soldier's Home" by Hemingway, "Bluebeard" by Vonnegut, and Joshua in the Bible. By contrasting these distant examples of heroes in history, we can see how they differ.
From the Paper " Kurt Vonnegut, in his novel Bluebeard, examines the world of American painting (and American culture and society at large, if not the entire world and almost everything in it, past and present) and finds it and most of its denizens obsessed with money and violence and bigotry and fear far more than with the joy or creativity of life or art. In the process of making such an argument, Vonnegut presents the autobiography of a failed abstract expressionist and his spiritual and creative journey out of the darkness and back to the light of the world of human beings and human-based art.
While he perhaps too often goes for the comic touch whenever it is available, Vonnegut is nevertheless trying to make the serious point that life and art have indeed become mired in money and materialism and resentments and abstractions to such an.."
