Fairy Tale Essays (Examples)

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Disguise In Fairy Tales

Pages: 6 (1826 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Essay Document #:20447702

Disguise in fairy tale
Deceit is the purpose of disguise, whether it is well-meaning or not. Cinderella dons the disguise of a beautiful princess to win the … to be malicious in every case. However, in Anne Sexton’s modern re-telling of Cinderella, there is a hint of outlandishness about the Cinderella tale that gives the story an ironic and satirical ending: the prince and Cinderella live happily ever after because they stay eternally youthful, never … dinner or any of the inconveniences and challenges of real world relationships; their story in and of itself as told as a traditional fairy tale is a kind of disguise—a deceiving story meant to shield one from the realities of romance and real life. Real world relationships have … even after the conclusion of the honeymoon. In Sexton’s verse, one can sense a wolf lurking between the lines, snapping at the Western fairy tale……

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Works Cited

“The Ballad of Mulan.”

Brothers Grimm. “The Cat and Mouse in Partnership.”  https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm002.html 

Brothers Grimm. “Red Riding Hood.”  https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm026.html 

Jurich, Marilyn. Scheherazade's sisters: Trickster heroines and their stories in world literature. No. 167. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1998. Sexton, Anne. “Cinderella.”

Tatar, Maria. "Female tricksters as double agents." The Cambridge Companion to Fairy Tales (2015): 39-59.

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Catholicism From An Indian Perspective

Pages: 10 (2865 words) Sources: 5 Document Type:Research Paper Document #:56618225

… love is romantic and you must fall in love and then you go out and break everyone’s hearts and are miserable because your fairy tale romance did not come true. For us we are quite happy to marry who our parents pick out for us. They know, they ……

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Works Cited

Bayly, Susan. Saints, Goddesses and Kings: Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society. Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Hofstede, Geert. Cultures consequences: Comparing values, behaviors, institutions, and organizations across nations (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2001.

Hofstede Insights.  https://www.hofstede-insights.com/product/compare-countries/ 

Panikkar, K. Asia and Western dominance. London: G. Allen, 1953.

Thurston, Herbert, and Andrew Shipman. \\\\\\\\\\\\"The Rosary.\\\\\\\\\\\\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 13. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.    http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13184b.htm 

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Summer Sun Risin

Pages: 8 (2257 words) Sources: 7 Document Type:Book Review Document #:69181450

… lowered next to her window and is invited by her grandma to go off on a magical trip. The story is a mystic tale that helps us remember that even though our loved ones may have left us, we can still commune with them and that sometimes … a golden ladder brought down next to her room window. It is her grandma. She invites her on a mystic journey. The mystic tale reminds us that even though we may have lost a loved one, we still have a chance to commune with them, albeit in … movement, sturdiness, and mystery in the moon ladder anchored on the moon. The depiction and image succeed to lure the reader into the fairy and hence are regarded as appropriate and true.
The author has succeeded in avoiding stereotypes by establishing diversity that is universal about religion. ……

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Works cited

Aziz-Raina, Seemi. \\\\\\\\\\\\"We are Grateful: Otsaliheliga.\\\\\\\\\\\\" Language Arts 97.2 (2019): 116-121.

Greene, Catherine. \\\\\\\\\\\\"My Papi Has a Motorcycle.\\\\\\\\\\\\" The Catholic Library World 90.2 (2019): 151-151.

Nikola-Lisa, W., and Don Tate. Summer sun risin\\\\\\\\\\\\'. Lee & Low Books, 2002.

Park, Linda Sue. Bee-bim bop!. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008.

Schiffer, Miriam B. Stella brings the family. Chronicle Books, 2015.

Seeger, Pete, and Paul DuBois Jacobs. The deaf musicians. GP Putnam\\\\\\\\\\\\'s Sons Books for Young Readers, 2006.

Soetoro-Ng, Maya. Ladder to the Moon. Candlewick Press, 2017.

 

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