Once upon a time in a far away land, there lived a princess who lived in a castle that was guarded by a dragon. She had lived there all her life in hopes that one day a fine young prince would come and rescue her. After 17 years a young prince named Troy had enough courage to go and rescue the princess. People in the village warned him that the journey to the castle would be dangerous. That no man has ever gotten to the castle, but that didn't stop Troy though.
Love isn’t always easy and it doesn’t show any mercy. When Harry met Sally, he had a girlfriend but was moving to New York. He travelled 18 hours with his girlfriend's friend, Sally. And just like that they parted ways. After 12 long years they finally get what they want, a chance at love.
After many lifetimes, Lilit finds love in the arms of a wild man of the forest and later in the powerful embrace of ancient Sumeria's greatest king. But Samael's wicked designs haunt her,
In the Lord of the Flies, the boys face major problems on the island. They try to act civilized and have order, but with Jack and his group of hunters rebelling, this order slowly goes down the drain. To makes things worse, Jack begins to act cruel and evil to the boys and even the animals. This lead to facepainting which symbolizes savagery, the “Beastie” which eventually means the boy’s fear and cruelty, and the pigs head on the stick, which was the turning point of complete evil, and a sacrifice to the beastie, which means a whole lot more that it seems.
Not everyone goes down in history in a good way, and King Philip II did not. Philip II was the ruler of an extremely large empire, so it wasn't easy for him. He was also an untrusting leader causing him to lack necessary assistance. Philip did not only do bad things though, he was the King of Spain when they reached their peak of power and he helped (and crashed) the Spanish economy. He also performed the great feat of unifying Spain and Portugal, which some say was his greatest accomplishment.
Giambattista Basile’s story of the original Sleeping Beauty called Sun, Moon, and Talia, and Disney’s 1959 film Sleeping Beauty have both shown that true love can prevail the threats that come at someone in life. In Basile’s version of sleeping beauty, the king rapes Talia, impregnanting Talia to give birth to two babies that she cherishes deeply, and falls in love with the king after meeting him (Basile, 2). This portrayal does not help send the message because she is strongly in love with her babies all because of the king, ignoring the fact that the king rapes Talia unconscious. In addition, readers to believe that true love is so strong, that it can blind the awareness of someone’s own well being. In the film version, Prince Phillip and Princess Aurora
The movie “The Princess and the Frog” is not your typical “boy saves girl” movie. Instead, this Disney movie presents us with a strong female lead who doesn’t need a man to achieve her goals. In many previous Disney movies, it is demonstrated that a girl needs a man in order to get her happily ever after. Without a prince, she is nothing. In “The Princess and the Frog” the gender roles are presented to us as equal, even reverse at times.
Prince Naveen and his driver, Lawrence, encounter a voodoo witch doctor, Dr. Facilier, who takes advantage of Naveen and Lawrence’s naiveté and turns Naveen into a frog and Lawrence into Naveen, so that Lawrence marries the wrong girl and Dr. Facilier can kill the girl’s father for his fortune. Tiana desperate for money agrees to kiss frog Naveen, but becomes a frog. On their journey to find someone to break the curse Naveen and Tiana develop feelings. In a twist of events Dr. Facilier makes a deal with the spirits for his own gain prompting him to hunt down Naveen. Meanwhile, Lawrence and Charlotte almost marry, and Naveen and Tiana find out the only way to reverse the curse is for Naveen to kiss a princess at midnight, but all went awry.
Aurora, sleeping beauty, was cast in a magical sleep and the only way for her to awake was by a kiss. The prince risked his life to save her, reinforcing the idea women need to be saved by a
At last remembered the story about the beast. An evil witch cursed the prince to be the ugly beast he acted like, and if he didn’t fall in love with somebody before all the petals fall off, then he’d be a beast forever. She knew that she had to be the one to turn him back into a
The Mermaid’s Necklace Once upon a time there lived a mermaid couple in Limudore, a city of mermaids in the abyss of the ocean that was blue and crystal clear. The city is being ruled by King Albert, who is renowned of being humble and approachable. King Albert’s wife, Queen Mermalene, voluntarily checks on the status of the mermaids and mermen in their city. They are considered to be a happy perfect couple but they feel incomplete because they do not have any child at all. One day, an old woman came up into the kingdom to ask for the couple’s help.
Many stories are out there with the man saving a sweet and incident woman, who is often a princess, but Neil Gaiman is not one of those types of writers. He takes a Princess in two Tales and changes the story to a crazy new spin off. Now “The Sleeper and the Spindle” is a spin off story of the well known “Snow White” and “Sleeping Beauty”. His way of writing changes the way you are used to seeing these princesses.
“...for with each dawn she found new hope and someday her dreams of happiness would come true.” This quote is from Cinderella, the 1950 Disney movie, which explains how Cinderella hoped that her wishes would come true someday. Wishes is one of the commonly seen motif, an object or idea that repeats itself throughout literary work, in the Cinderella stories. There are more types of motifs, like magical figures, which always helps Cinderella, the prince, who always marries Cinderella, and the glass slipper, which helps the prince to find Cinderella. Although stories like Ever After, “Aschenputtel,” and “Egyptian Cinderella” are from different cultural backgrounds, these stories still share many similar motifs.
One day, an old beggar woman comes by a castle offering a young, selfish prince a rose in exchange for a place to stay for the night and the young prince denies her. Since the prince denies her due to her unattractive outward appearance, the old woman punishes the young prince by turning him into a monstrous beast and his servants into sentient objects. The old woman gives the prince 10 years, or by the time he turns 21, to find a girl who will fall in love with him despite him being a beast. The time is counted down by an enchanted rose whose petals will slowly fall off until his time is up.
But then again, they never really do, do they? Nerissa was everything the king could want in a future princess; smart, beautiful, talented and witty. The entire kingdom was under her spell, and falling deeper within it every passing day. And the king, still mourning over the loss of his wife, who had passed away in childbirth many years prior, was no exception. Besotted with Nerissa, he gave her everything she could have ever wanted, considering her his greatest treasure.
