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Jung, Fairy Tale Interpretation and Little Red Cap, 2002.
A look at C.G. Jung's interpretation of fairy tales from Mario Jacoby's paper "Jung's Fairy Tale Interpretation and Little Red Cap".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper is written as a reflection on "Jung's Fairy Tale Interpretation and Little Red Cap". Mario Jacoby's paper on C.G. Jung and the interpretation of fairy tales stresses that both Freud and Jung, early on, explored fairy tales as part of their study, with Jung noting how human fantasy as found in fairy tales was a reflection of human creative potential.
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Interpretation of Fairy Tales, 2001.
This essay examines Bengt Holbek's model of classifying and interpreting the world's fairy tales.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 85.95
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After examining the basic elements of Holbek's system, the writer applies them to several fairy tales about giants to see how well it works ?on the ground?. Holbek?s system is based on seven rules, rather like algorithms that he used to correlate the various symbolic expressions within fairy tales to the corresponding (real world) emotional expressions, focusing on three thematic opposition: child versus adult, male versus female and low versus high.
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?Holbek?s system of structural oppositions ?define the three categories of crises which occur in fairy tales,? all of which are in turn "real or possible events in the storytelling community?, which may include such relatively minor trauma as adolescent rebellion and such terrible ones as incest (Holbek 416 & 418). Holbek believed that this psychological delving of fairy tales was in no way inappropriate, arguing that ?every element [in a fairy tale] may be read as pertaining to real life? (Holbek 439. For Holbek, every ogre, fairy, sprite and giant was merely the representation of a real person (Holbek 418).?
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Beauty in Fairy Tales, 2002.
A discussion of the significance of the theme of beauty in fairy tales.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper examines the significance of the emphasis of beauty in fairy tales and its impact on contemporary American society. By interweaving personal perceptions and research about different fairy tales and their portrayal of beauty, it provides multiple perspectives on how women?s lives are adversely affected by these tales. It shows how with their prototypical presentations about women and their overemphasis on the importance of beauty, fairy tales reinforce the stereotypical perceptions of women and undermine the latter?s accomplishments. It also looks at how fairy tales play a large role in shaping and defining the identities of women and the perceptions of society and how they have succeeded in establishing the gender relationships and dominating the social discourse of American society-Myth America.
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"The analysis of the theme of beauty in the fairy tale of ?Snow White? by Marc Fonda also provides me with a new perspective of the sinister effects of fairy tales. Fundamentally, the conflict between Snow White and the Queen revolves around the pursuit of beauty. Because she has lost her ?title? as the most beautiful woman in the kingdom to Snow White, she decides to kill the latter in order to regain her title (Fonda 14). In the Disney movie version of ?Snow White,? the Queen is further enraged when she sees a young prince accosting Snow White, the most beautiful woman in the kingdom."
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Magic Beings in Fairy Tales, 2004.
This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the topic of magic beings in fairy tales.
1,085 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper discusses the importance of magic beings and fairies in fairy tales. It explains how, today, fairies are a popular form of fantasy that come to life in a variety of ways. One of the most traditional homes for fairies and other magical beings is the fairy tale, created for children but loved by all ages. It discusses how some of the most beloved fairy tales contain fairies and magical beings that are central to the plot, the moral, and the essence of the stories. Without fairies and other magical beings, these tales would lose their magic and their universal appeal.
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"Fairies are magical beings that inhabit many of the world's most famous fairy tales. Children old and young are familiar with many of these tales from Cinderella to Sleeping Beauty and beyond. Fairies and magical beings are part of what make these fairy tales so delightful and so memorable. Not all fairies are good, but most of them are happy beings that can make a character's life better, more contented, and more fulfilling. Fairy expert Cassandra Eason notes the word originally meant, "a state of enchantment or glamour, the power of illusion, reflecting the power of beings that might bring blessings or curses, and an ambivalence towards such beings" (Eason 17). Fairies do not inhabit as many fairy tales as one might think, but the tales they do inhabit are special and vibrant, such as "Peter Pan," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "The Wizard of Oz," "The Hobbit," and "Snow White." "
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Fairy Tales, 2008.
Looks at several 'happily ever after' fairy tales and their relationship to culture.
2,240 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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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.
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"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."
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Feminine Roles in Fairy Tales, 2005.
Examines the feminine roles in three fairy tales: "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".
2,356 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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As a genre of children's literature, fairy tales are filled with magic, coincidence and good luck for the good characters and bad luck for the bad characters. These delightfully entertaining tales are also filled with gender stereotypes. This paper examines female stereotypes within three fairy tales in particular: "Cinderella"; "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and "Sleeping Beauty". The paper examines their representations of female passivity, their emphasis on outer beauty as the quality that saves the heroine and their portrayals of competition among women for male attention (e.g., to marry the handsome prince), based on external beauty.
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"Next Cinderella wishes, like her stepsisters, to attend the festival at which a handsome prince will be looking for a bride. But her request is refused by her stepmother because, "You have no clothes and shoes" (Grimm). The stepmother acts as if she is trying to protect Cinderella from ridicule, but it is clear instead that she wants as little competition as possible for her own daughters. Cinderella is ordered to help her stepsisters get ready, the first instance of feminine rivalry among Cinderella, the stepmother, and the stepmother's blood daughters."
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Fairy Tales, 2004.
A review of modern fairy tales, which illustrate the theme of the underdog prevailing.
920 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper discusses the common fairy tale theme of the underdog prevailing. The paper states that, in many fairy tales, this theme is underlined by the introduction of a protagonist who is regarded as weak or strange by society, but whose personal gifts not only enable him to overcome this negative self and societal impression, but also, ultimately, help him or her to deploy what at first seemed to be a negative characteristic in a positive fashion. The paper reviews the books, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer?s Stone", by J.K. Rowling, "The Year of the Boar", by Bette Lord, and "The People Could Fly", by Virginia Hamilton.
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"However, Harry Potter?s magical powers seep into the narrative framework early on over the course of the text, as Harry liberates an oppressed and confined snake from the zoo, without even intending to. This incident shows how compassion with the underdog is within Harry?s heart from a young age. However, Harry must learn to control the difficulties he experiences as a wizard-in-training with practice as well as emotional intelligence, else he do harm as well as good to Muggles and other beasts. At the end of the tale, Harry has liberated his school temporarily and gained a secure place in the world as well as a more secure identity."
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The Female Character in Fairy Tales, 2006.
This paper looks at the struggles that female fairy tale characters endured in order to attain happiness.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 44.95
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The paper discusses how in fairy tales, female characters are often associated with a long search for a mate, which ends in a happily-ever-after relationship. Yet, the paper maintains that what is often not considered is the strength of many female fairy tale characters and the struggles that they endure in order to achieve their goals. The paper highlights how the characters of Cinderella, Belle and Rapunzel all demonstrate women that have suffered through prolonged distress prior to realizing happiness.
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"The Merchant Of Venice" - A Fairy Tale, 2006.
An analysis of the fairy tale elements of William Shakespeare's "The Merchant Of Venice".
3,707 words (approx. 14.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 102.95
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This paper examines how although "The Merchant Of Venice" can be considered comic, Harley Granville-Barker claims that the play is a fairy tale because it has a lack of realism. The paper attempts to develop Granville-Barker's claim and extend it by using Vladimir Propp's theory in his "Morphology of the Folktale". It shows how Shakespeare portrays a very complex social condition of the community he lives in by using the fairy tale genre and how the refusal of the society to accept the other is conveyed through the character of Shylock, whose behavior varies according to the situation he is in. Sometimes he is portrayed as evil and sometimes as good.
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"In this book Propp discusses the structure of the fairy tale and defines some of features common to all known fairy tales. Propp reveals thirty one functions which pertain to a fairy tale text. Moreover, Propp claims that it is not obligatory for all the thirty one functions to be in each fairy tale, but the order of these functions remains the same in each of them:" As for grouping, it is necessary to say first of all that by no means do all fairy tales give evidence of all functions. But this in no way changes the law of sequence. The absence of certain functions does not change the order of the rest. "(22). The Merchant of Venice has some of the functions that are defined in the Morphology of The Folktale, and it is the order of those functions in the plot that leads to the conclusion that the play is a fairy tale. "
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Fairy Tales Abound, 2001.
A comparison between the fairy tale element in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and in "The Secret Garden".
1,665 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 54.95
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This paper compares and contrasts two classic stories. The writer of this paper looks at "Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland" and "The Secret Garden" to compare and contrast fairy tale elements. The author provides the reader with an overview of what a fairy tale element is and then examines how these elements are used in the two named stories.
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"Fairy tales have been written for many years. Often times the writing of them coincides with the societal strengths and weaknesses of the time. The complete and surreal fantasy in Alice and Wonderland was something that was popular in the 1800?s while the Secret Garden was more common its time. Fairy tale elements in each book give it the classic happy ending but the approaches are entirely different. In The Secret Garden there is much tragedy before the happiness can begin. This is not uncommon and is a style that we have grown accustomed to in other fairy tales. Alice in Wonderland makes up for the lack of tragedy by emphasizing the bizarre and the unbelievable elements such as animals with marked intelligence."
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Sherman's "Disasters And Fairy Tales" Collection, 2004.
A look at a selection of photographs from Sherman's "Disasters and Fairy Tales" collection.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper looks at a selection of photographs from Sherman's "Disasters and Fairy Tales" collection of work, through Kristeva's theory of abjection.
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"As Kristeva describes it in "Powers of Horror," abjection preserves what existed in the archaism of pre-objectal relationship in the immemorial violence with which a body becomes separated from another body in order to be (Powers). While this may seem like a complex idea, the makeup of it is actually quite simple to grasp. The pre-objectal relationship that Kristeva speaks of is the time in youth and adolescence prior to the female's realization that she is not a subject and..."
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Oscar Wilde?s Fairy Tales, 2004.
An analysis of Oscar Wilde?s philosophy of Greek love in his fairy tales.
2,484 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper examines how Oscar Wilde?s reputation as one of the preeminent literary geniuses of the Victorian era remains an extraordinary accomplishment for an Irishman writing for and about English society. It looks at how, after his conviction on sodomy charges led to two years in prison and self-imposed exile to France, Victorian society vigorously denied Wilde's existence in their ranks and how Wilde?s role as an outcast within Victoria?s conservative society represents a compelling force in his fairy tales. It analyzes his books, ?The Happy Prince?, ?The Star-Child", and ?The Young King?, as well as ?The Soul of Man Under Socialism?, for elements of Wilde?s theory of masculine love.
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"In ?The Young King? the protagonist is a very young man ?for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age? (Pomegranate) with enchanting beauty ?wild-eyed and open-mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun? (Pomegranate). This detail about the Young King corresponds with an age-frame where Wilde would have been discovering his own sexual preference. In ?The Young King?, the young man?s metamorphosis, through a dream quest, reconciles his conflicting roles as the son of the poor goat-herder and his destiny as ?the son of the Old King.? Shimmering on the surface of this tale is Christ?s message from the ?Sermon on the Mount? (Matthew 5, 6 & 7). Wilde declares, in "The Soul of Man under Socialism,? that the message of Christ to man was simply ?Be Thyself.? The young King?s recognition of his true self within these conflicting roles reflects his attainment of the virtue asked for in Christ?s message."
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Fairy Tales, 2002.
A look at the lessons children can learn from fairy tales.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper describes the detrimental effect the reading of fairy tales has on the psyche of children.
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Racial Issues in Fairy Tales and Film, 2002.
A paper which discusses the issues of racism and sexism in fairy tales and Disney movies.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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The paper explores how racism and sexism are present in fairy tales and how even the Disney stories of our more enlightened era are filled with all sorts of stereotypical depictions of good characters and evil. The paper uses the Walt Disney movie, "Alladin", to show how the characters have become "Anglicized" to suit a more Caucasian audience.
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"It probably surprises no one to see to recognize the racism, and sexism, that was everywhere in traditional fairy tales. After all, that was a very unenlightened time when people were uneducated and rarely had the opportunity to get to know, and come to understand, people of other races.
"But things are different now. We have had decades of education and desegregation. It is surprising, then, to see some of the blatantly stereotypical images that fill Disney's movie screens. After all, a long time has passed since the brothers Grimm penned their tales, when bad men were always swarthy, or black, and could be spotted the second they stepped onto the page. Nevertheless, after looking closely at a few of Disney's recent hit movies, one might conclude things have not changed that much at all."
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Fairy Tale: "Beauty and the Beast", 2008.
Examines the elements of social and cultural censorship in the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast".
1,580 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper explains that the leitmotif of the husban- beast in Madame Du Beaumont's classical version of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" reoccurs in many stories. The paper points out that, in this version of the famous fairytale, the attraction between the sublimely beautiful and the monstrously ugly may hide a fetishist desire at the core of the culture. The paper stresses that the union between a beast and a human being, which forms the plot of the fairytale, obviously hints at the beast-like, sexual desires, which lurk in the human subconscious.
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"Another erotic element in the story is the dream Beauty has of the Beast after having delayed her return because of her sisters' wickedness. Thus, Beauty dreams of the dying Beast, longing for her presence and reproaching her for breaking her promise: The tenth night she spent at her father's, she dreamed she was in the palace garden, and that she saw Beast extended on the grass-plot, who seemed just expiring, and, in a dying voice, reproached her with her ingratitude. It is at this point that Beauty actually realizes she has strong feelings for the Beast."
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