How To Read Literature Like a Professor Summer Assignment Chapter 8 A work of literature that reflects a fairy tale is the teen fiction book Fairest by Gail Carson Levine. This book tells the story of a girl who finds herself unattractive with her fair skin, black hair, red lips and uses a manipulative talking mirror to enhance her beauty and in the process makes a prince love her. When she loses her glamour from the magic those around her feel betrayal and she nearly dies from poisoning but her prince forgives her tearfully. Throughout the story we get to see why she used magic to look pretty and learn to sympathize with her. We begin to see her as sad rather than manipulative by seeing her perspective of the world and herself. By changing …show more content…
He is a brave savior who came back in his peoples (Christians) hour of need to save them from the evil of the White Witch (sin) and had to sacrifice himself to do so (crucifixion). Aslan was kind and gentle with children and animals alike. Alsan is like Christ in that they both sacrificed themselves to save their people from an evil, in Christs sacrifice he saved them from sin and in Aslans from the Deep Magic from the Dawn of Time that the White Witch was using. Both Aslan and Christ both rose back from the dead however and came to rule their people happily free from the evil power of sin/the Deep …show more content…
This is not a story one would normally call ironic but towards the end more and more irony come to light. When Juliets is in her drugged state and appears to be dead (but a simple examination would have proved otherwise) Romeo kills himself. Juliet eventually wakes up and finds her dead husband beside her and commits suicide out of sorrow. So they both got what they wanted in the end, an eternity together but not in the way they had hoped. Also the readers of the play know that Juliet isn't really dead when Romeo discovers her so when he stabs himself it affects the audience much