In “Cinderella”, by the Grimm Brothers, the authors utilize a multitude of fairy tale genre conventions such as frequent usage of rhetorical devices, magical creatures, and the classic “Happy Ever After” fairy tale ending, to emphasize the importance of genuineness and the dangers of pursuing superficiality. The authors use several rhetorical devices such as symbolism and juxtaposition
This outcome shows that only the right person was allowed through, and this prince did not have ill intentions toward sleeping beauty and just wanted to save her life. The author then goes on to mention how this kiss, which many think is inappropriate, can be explained as "giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. " Parents and teachers looking at the bigger picture of fairy tales or teaching them a modern retelling, as the author suggests, can teach kids important moral lessons that will help them in their growth. Some major claims of this essay include the author talking about the evolution of children's fairytales over the past few decades and how certain fairy tales have evolved to fit certain standards and retell beloved classics to educate children better. Next, the author uses motivational appeals by encouraging the audience, which is mostly parents and educators, to find other ways to teach fairytale topics.
Although this genre has evolved in some elements such as its motifs or structure as I have explained, it maintains its conventional function of transmitting values and confront human conflicts. Driven by this educational aspect, the fact that this book has been introduced in schools to teach about the Holocaust is not fortuitous. This is a book that retells a traditional fairy tale that children could be familiarized with but describing a modern issue. Furthermore, I consider that this book narrates facts about the Holocaust in a contemporary manner as it deviates from the traditional gender roles of fairy tales. The rescued woman is not
Jane Yollens short story Harlyn’s Fairy is commenting on the function of fairytales. One way that Yollen presents this idea is through her characters. Aunt Marilyn works within the story's society to convey an unfavorable view on fairytales, while Harlyn questionable sanity and her mothers' illness combat this view. As a result, Yollen is suggesting that fairytales have literary merit and can work to bring attention to sensitive topics, like mental illness, and present them in interesting and appealing ways that other genre fictions might not be able to.
The poem “Cinderella” by Anne Sexton, uses repetition, figurative language and symbolism to explain the famous Cinderella story. In the beginning, Sexton includes short scenarios of stories that have a similar plot, from trails and tribulations to a well-deserved happy ending. She ends majority of these scenarios with a repeated sentence that solidifies her argument, “That story.” This sentence is also used as the final sentence of the poem to remind the reader after the story was described in detail, that it was just another “happy ending” story. In addition to repetition, figurative language is found through the poem; similes are the most frequent in this poem.
Poem essay Is it true that nothing reveals more about a person’s secret heart than the adult memory of a favorite childhood fairy tale. .Both poems provide examples of these fairy tales and how they are completely different from real life. Fairy tales are part of so many children’s childhoods that children do not understand the tales to the fullest. . Though as people grow it is not as appealing to them as it was when they were children. Fairy tales have more of a purpose than children might think.
Have you ever wondered where tales like Disney’s Cinderella came from? Believe or not, that version of Cinderella was written in France around the 1800’s. But that version is not the only Cinderella story. There are over 900 different versions. And in this essay of mine I’ll compare and contrast four different Cinderella stories all from different cultures and different times of history.
“No pain no gain”, echoes in my mind, as the hot sweltering humid air engulfs my room, baking me in the unbearable heat early one morning, during the summer after my freshman year of college. The thought instantly brings me back to memories of my childhood, where whenever I complained, my dad would retort “no pain no gain”. Back then, I hated hearing it over and over again. To me it was just something my parents said to stop us from complaining, and I never stopped to think why that one phrase was so important to them.
Analysis of the Poem of Cinderella Cinderella is a short fairy tale story but is this case is being written as a short poem. Cinderella gain its popularity after the release of Disney’s Cinderella animation story. The poem of Cinderella transcend time and culture having a lasting effect on both aspects the young and the old. Cinderella has been a story in which all children grew up listening to this story and there is still parents that continued telling the story to their children. Cinderella has been an effect in many cultures and in some way it was found as a way to show many of those cultural believes.
In rewriting “the blue light” in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’, old values placed within the stories needed readjustment to today’s values that are important for the youth of today to understand. These old motifs from the ‘Grimm’ brother’s stories are sought to gruesome, cruel, or not match the values we want to put in today’s youth. The key changes to motifs in the rewrite of the blue light are; the idea of a young girl being the heroine in the story rather than just a beautiful princess, the motif of the ‘helper’ or fairy god mother, the change to the revenge motif, and finally a change to the prize in the end of the story. These changes I sought crucial in changing to make the story match today values, and ideas we want to place in young children’s minds. In changing ‘the blue light’ I changed the gender of the main character and the ‘fairy’, as this changed the old motif of the ‘heroic and strong’ man to a ‘heroine’ within the kingdom.
In Margaret Atwood’s poem “There Was Once”, Atwood uses irony to point out the societal problems within the genre of fairy tales. Charles Perrault, the author of the short story “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, writes about fantastic creatures, magic, and love, following the generic conventions of fairy tales. When compared to Perrault’s short story “The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood”, Atwood’s poem both compliments and contrasts Perrault’s. These two texts, although similar, offer different views on the genre of fairy tales. Margaret Atwood’s satirical poem, “There Was Once”, aims to disrupt the generic conventions of a traditional fairy tale.
Cinderella is one of the most popular fairy tales, with an estimated 500 variants worldwide seen in almost every culture. The Americanized Disney tale is one of the most common, as well as one of the saddest tales of transformation. This Cinderella was made without any sense of independence or any backbone, which makes her less-than idol worthy. This Disney tale does not tell young girls much, except for the fact that they need to wait patiently for a prince to rescue them from their awful upbringings, while they don feminine clothing with nothing but the best accessories. This Cinderella tale came out in the 1950’s, and the sexist views of the time do not work well with today’s society.
Human beings have traveled long distances across the world for several reasons throughout time. At first, it was to find food and to find a warmer environment. Then humans would travel to a suitable area with better living environments, job offers and education. Recently, however, people have traveled to escape the war and conflicts within a community. Their town, city or country no longer provides them with the shelter and long life stability that they seek, so they end up leaving in order to escape the nightmares that are turning into reality.
The art of storytelling is at the heart of fairy tales. Since the beginning, fairy tales have captivated readers with its magical worlds and enchanted characters. Quintessential to fairy tales are destined happy endings and the clear division between good and evil. The nature of these stories creates distorted perceptions that do not align with reality, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. This is portrayed in Terry Pratchett’s Witches Abroad, in which Lilith Weatherwax struggles to free herself from the fictitious world she has fabricated.
In “the blue light” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s within ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’, the old values placed within the stories needed readjustment to match today’s values that should be portrayed to today’s youth. These old motifs within the ‘Grimm’ brother’s stories are sought to gruesome, cruel, or do not match the values we want to showcase to today’s youth. The key changes made to the motifs in the rewrite of the blue light are; the idea of a young girl being the heroine in the story rather than just a beautiful princess, the change to the purpose of the ‘helper’ or fairy godmother, the rearrangement of the revenge motif, and a change to the motif of women as a ‘prize’. These changes were crucial in making the story match today values, and ideas that should be portrayed to today 's children. In rewriting ‘the blue light’ an adjustment to the gender of the main character was made, this changed the old motif of the ‘heroic and strong’ man to a ‘heroine’ young women within the kingdom.
