...Title: Varying Interpretation of Fairy Tales in real life and The effects when introduced early in childhood. Justin L. Soriano Vincennes University Abstract This paper explores published articles that report studies done from research conducted upon observation of young children by Bettelheim (The uses of enchantment, 1976). The articles however vary in their definitions today. Bettelheim suggested that fairy tales have an emotional and symbolic importance especially those traditional stories that included abandonment, death, injuries and evil witches. These tales allowed children to cope up with their fears and understand moral values in their own terms. This paper also examines how preferred relationship traits are created based on stories like Cinderella or Snow White and how it affects us in choosing an ideal suitable partner. Varying Interpretation of Fairy Tales in real life and The effects when introduced early in childhood. Everybody as children has been read or told a version of “ Cinderella” at one point in their lives. They were recited to us by out parents and grandparents, aunts and uncle, older siblings or other relatives and of course our dear teachers at school when we were young. We can’t help but feel enthralled as our imaginations transport us to the enchanted time and place. But what really draws us to be so interested in fairy tale stories like these? How does these stories affect us or the children exposed to it in the long run as we...
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...reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement. CHAPTER ONE Once There was a Time An Introduction to the History and Ideology of Folk'and Fairy Tales To begin with a true story told in fairy-tale manner: Once upon a time the famous physicist Albert Einstein was confronted by an overly concemed woman who sought advice on how to raise her small son to become a successful scientist. In particular she wanted to know what kinds ofbooks she sll ould read to her son. "Fairy tales," Einstein responded without. hesitation. "Fine, but what else should I read to him after that?" the mother asked. "More fairy tales, "Einstein stated. "And after that?" "Even more fairy tales. " replied the great scientist, and he waved his pipe like a wizard pronouncing a happy end to a long adventure. It now seems that the entire world has been following Einstein's advice. By 1979 a German literary critic could declare that fairy tales are "fantastically in."\ In fact, everywhere one turns today fairy tales and fairy-tale motifs pop up like magic. Bookshops are flooded with . fairy tales by J.R.R. Tolkien, Hermann Hesse, the Grimm Brothers, Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, a myriad of folk-tale adaptations, feminist and fractured fairy tales, and scores of sumptuously illustrated fantasy...
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...Disney and the American Princess: The Americanization of European Fairy Tales [pic] Marina Alexandrova Student number 3021874 MA Thesis, American Studies Program Utrecht University Course code 200401064 23943 words 12 August 2009 Contents Title page………………………………………………………………1 Contents……………………………………………………………….2 Introduction……………………………………………………………3 Chapter 1: European Fairy Tales and Values about Gender and Class………………………………………10 Chapter 2: Disney Animation and American Culture…………………24 Chapter 3: Disney Animation and (Gender) Commodification…………………………………………..55 Conclusion…………………………………………………………...73 Bibliography…………………………………………………………78 Introduction Among the various aspects which define contemporary life, popular culture – and in particular, American popular culture – is undoubtedly one of the most ubiquitous and long-lasting. Throughout the twentieth century, people around the world have enjoyed film, music, animation, and written works by various authors and artists. One of the most famous and significant American entertainers of the lot has been Walt Disney, introducing millions of children and adults to his world of limitless (or so is widely believed) imagination and magic, from the earliest short cartoons produced in the 1920s, to full-length feature animations such as Snow White and the Seven...
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...Guerline Donisvitch “Introduction to Literature” Ann Rasmussen April 23, 2009 Barbie Doll The poem begins in a fairy-tale vein, the archaic term “girl-child” being used to underscore the mythic quality of the story. The dolls, stove, iron and lipstick are all traditional play things for young girls, but they are also markers of an identity in the making, the things that young girls grow to identify with their own social roles. The doll presents an idealized image of the body, and stove and irons tell them what kind of work is expected of them as adults. The lipstick perhaps is the most sexualized cosmetic for women, signals to young girls that they will be valued for their physical appearance. The “magic of puberty” introduces the theme of growth. It is a magical time because the body changes rapidly. She also refers to the pain that comes with puberty. When girls are growing older they are really cruel to each other. The “girl child” is told she has “a great big nose and fat legs” even though she is smart, healthy and strong. The girl was made to feel guilty for who she was, for her intelligence and abilities, and also for not being slim and “beautiful.” She apologized to everyone for not being the person they wanted her to be, but all they could see was her body and how it did not match their idea of what a woman should look like. They tried to help her be more of an idealized woman by suggesting how to compensate for her unfeminine qualities. “girl-child”...
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...Irving's “Rip Van Winkle” tale is a myth, but also a part of American mythology. In “Rip Van Winkle”, Washington Irving skillfully incorporates three characteristics that come together and make an excellent and enjoyable story for its readers. The first characteristic is that the story is set in a remote place, in the past. Second, “Rip Van Winkle” includes exaggerated and remarkable characters. Lastly, the tale of Rip Van Winkle includes magical and mysterious events and shares the consequences of them. Washington Irving uses exaggerated characters, detailed settings, and magical and mysterious events to create an amazing story that helped create American mythology. The characters of “Rip Van Winkle” are exaggerated. The most exaggerated character is Dame Van Winkle; Rip Van Winkle’s wife. Dame Van Winkle is a nagging and brawling woman, who doesn’t give Rip a break. Irving says, “his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family” (Irving 64). This gives the reader more incite on Dame Van Winkle...
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...Ariel never really loved Eric. The Beast was not angry and violent. Mulan never fell in love with her general. At least not in the original versions of the stories; all these changes were added by Disney to make a more interesting movie, or to forward a sexist agenda. A multitude of sexist messages are present in Disney movies teaching young girls that they are expected to fill a submissive role in society. The fairy tales are symbolic of women’s lives being shaped by male influences. Over time, the sexist message in Disney movies has become less apparent, but it has never disappeared; it is merely buried within a classic fairy tale that the “magic of Disney” has transformed into a sexist lesson. Naturally, these movies must not have a traumatic affect on little girls. Parents are not actually harming their daughters by allowing them to indulge their fairy tale fantasies. Not according to Jack Zipes, leading expert on fairy tales and German professor at the University of Minnesota, the movies have “a type of gender stereotyping . . . that has an adverse effect on children, in contrast to what parents think . . .. Parents think they’re essentially harmless – they are not harmless” (Giroux, “Roared” 103). Maria Tatar, Harvard folklorist, also sees harm in the movies since “[Disney] capitalizes on the worst part of fairytales” placing the focus on the material world and removing the cunning and intelligent roles that the females once played (Healy). However, these messages...
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...elements that have made this film a notorious childhood memory as well as an American classic that we have treasured for generations. How could we forget the magical characters, the music, and the outstanding cinematography? The theme of the film can be summed up simply from one of the many notable phrases, “there’s no place like home”. Dorothy, a Kansas farm girl dreams of a better place and life. During a tornado she is struck in the head and there begins her journey to Oz. There she meets magical characters, many of which travel on with her also in search of better things. Who can forget the Munchkins, the first of the strange but charming characters Dorothy encounters? Dorothy and her dog Toto also come across the wicked witch the of the west and Glenda the good witch, introducing the good vs. evil of the fairy tale. She sets out on her quest to find a way home when she stumbles upon the Scarecrow who is in search for a brain, the Tinman in search of a heart and the Lion in search of courage. There are parallels to the characters she meets in relation to her family and neighbors back in Kansas, therefore reinforcing her homesickness and the determination to return home. As their adventures down the yellow brick road begins, it takes them on to see the wizard who can fulfill their wishes. The Wizard of Oz was Oscar-nominated for Best Picture, Color Cinematography, Interior Decoration, and Special Effects and won awards for Best Song ("Over the Rainbow")...
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...3673 THE ‘UNCANNY’ (1919) Freud - Complete Works. Ivan Smith 2000. All Rights Reserved. 3675 THE ‘UNCANNY’ I It is only rarely that a psycho-analyst feels impelled to investigate the subject of aesthetics, even when aesthetics is understood to mean not merely the theory of beauty but the theory of the qualities of feeling. He works in other strata of mental life and has little to do with the subdued emotional impulses which, inhibited in their aims and dependent on a host of concurrent factors, usually furnish the material for the study of aesthetics. But it does occasionally happen that he has to interest himself in some particular province of that subject; and this province usually proves to be a rather remote one, and one which has been neglected in the specialist literature of aesthetics. The subject of the ‘uncanny’ is a province of this kind. It is undoubtedly related to what is frightening - to what arouses dread and horror; equally certainly, too, the word is not always used in a clearly definable sense, so that it tends to coincide with what excites fear in general. Yet we may expect that a special core of feeling is present which justifies the use of a special conceptual term. One is curious to know what this common core is which allows us to distinguish as ‘uncanny’ certain things which lie within the field of what is frightening. As good as nothing is to be found upon this subject in comprehensive treatises on aesthetics, which in general prefer to concern...
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...Karen Ordahl Kupperman Karen Ordahl Kupperman was born on April 23, 1939, in Devils Lake, North Dakota, of Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. Her father was a colonel in the United States Army. Kupperman attended elementary school in Fort Benning, Georgia, and then in Fargo, North Dakota. She attended junior high school in Fargo and then in U.S. Army schools in Japan, and high school in Springfield, Missouri. It is said that her favorite childhood books were a set of Grimm’s and Andersen’s fairy tales, she really loved these books because of the far-off worlds they recreated. Karen’s most important early influence, though, was the experience of living in different parts of the country during World War II and again in her teenage year. The young Karen became fascinated in different historical experiences of regions of the United States. The little time she spent in Japan when she was fourteen also gave her direct experience in cultural difference and insights into the ways cultures are built. Kupperman attended the University of Missouri, earning a bachelor’s degree in history in 1961. History has always been her favorite subject. After college she went to Harvard on a Woodrow Wilson fellowship, and left after she earned her master’s degree in 1962. She realized her passion was to teach and write about history when she took a teacher’s aide position at the University of Connecticut. Because of her passion she decided to go to Cambridge to get her Ph.D. in 1978. Following her...
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...The directors just shifted it to minor details, lyrics, and iconographies. Primarily, Tiana’s childhood “best friend” Charlotte represents the cliché white, blonde, spoiled and rich girl that calls her father “big daddy”. She certainly believes that wishing upon a star will solve one's problems. Her dreams have always been about marrying a prince and becoming a princess, although her father could afford all the tiaras in the world. Moreover, writers use the song: “Down in New Orleans” to describe the city and its people (Newman, Down in New Orleans -The Princess and the Frog). However, a certain lyric: “Where the women are very pretty and all the men deliver” assumes that all women are sexualized objects and reduces their significance, in the community, to their looks. Finally, the biggest womanizer and playboy of all: Prince Naveen, he certainly...
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...globalization which is the intensification and expansion of cultural flows across the globe . Academic Sources 1) Mollet, T. 2013. “With a smile and a song …”: Walt Disney and the birth of the American fairy tale.” Marvels & Tales 27 (1): 109-24. In this journal article, Mollet reviews on how Walt Disney’s production is now being seen as crucial to the construction of the modern American society through his contribution to the formation of a new United States nationalism . The author approaches the topic using cultural studies and textual analysis ofn Disney fairy tales to exemplify how they reflect the dominant (?) culture of America. Her research focuses on analysing Disney films such as “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs”, “Three Little Pigs”, “Wizard of Oz” and how these films and their characters portray the unstable society and culture of America during the great depression and other different time periodslines. The journal is useful for my topic as Mollet explains how Disney films are produced to reflect the culture of the American society. In relation to my case study, I seek to explain how Disney’s FROZEN reception can be seen as a global (?) “cultural process”. The limitation of this journal is that it only mentions three of the Disney films dating back to the early 1930s, thus there is a need for...
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...had to treat the pain and discomfort that accompanies the arrival of an infant's first tooth. Once viewed as a disease state, teething is now considered a normal part of the human growth cycle. Obviously, caregivers will want to minimize the discomfort that is associated with the process. The purpose of this review is to discuss normal tooth development in the growing child, the signs and symptoms that accompany teething, and what treatment options are available to provide relief. NORMAL TOOTH DEVELOPMENT To most caregivers, teething is the period of time preceding the eruption of an infant tooth. In actuality, teething begins prior to birth. Primary tooth formation is an ongoing process that begins in utero and proceeds through early childhood, when the root formation of the particular tooth is completed, which may be 2 to 3 years after its initial eruption from the gum.1 The pulp and dentin develop from the mesoderm while the enamel arises from the ectoderm approximately 28 days after conception. Primary (i.e., baby teeth) develop below the gumline during the first trimester, approximately during the sixth week of pregnancy; permanent teeth (i.e., adult teeth) develop at 3 or 4 months of age, which is when the primary teeth become calcified (i.e., covered with a hard enamel). A substantial amount of calcification occurs between 3 and 12 months of age. This process starts with the anterior teeth and should end, between 18 months and 3 years of age, with the posterior teeth...
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................................................................................... 13 References............................................................................................................................... 14 Introduction Fairytales have become an integral part of children literature. The various tales have been reinvented as picture books, novels, animated and real-life films. The stories have been twisted and shaped by an ever changing society to represent a wide range of the dominant society’s views. Among these they show perspectives on social class, women’s roles, cultural differences, religion, and human behaviour. As time goes on, the original tales are discarded and the altered stories become widely known and read. This can lead to the underlying perspectives of the altered stories become subconsciously engrained in the new generation. The effect of this can have a large impact on the views of individuals and groups. The question asked is do fairy tales actually have that much power to influence people’s viewpoints? Are they really biased towards the dominant culture? This essay will critique the popular tale of Aladdin, focusing on the Disney version. Three perspectives will be...
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...“Hide and seek” by Vernon Scannell, and with reference to another three poems from wider reading, discuss how the poets present feelings about childhood. Childhood is a common experience that we all have been through; however this experience is not the same for everyone. There are always common aspects in our stories but our feelings are completely different. As memories start to fade, the overall feeling of the experiences start to become predominant in our minds. It might have been a scar or a sweet dream, but every poet was shaped by those memories described in the poems. Although the subject is common, these poems are different. Each one portrays aspects of childhood viewed by the feelings of the poet. “Hide and Seek” by Vernon Scannell tells the story of a little boy who was playing hide and seek with other children but he ends up being left alone in the dark. Writing about the same theme, “My Parents Kept Me from Children who were rough” by Stephen Spender describes the story of a boy that is overprotected by his parents and constantly bullied by the other children because of his social class. It explores the contrast between the social classes and how it affects both the behaviour and life of the children. Both of the poems are focused in different aspects of childhood including that children can be cruel and that childhood is not always perfect. In Hide and Seek, the poet narrates the apparent cruelty of other children who left the child alone in the toolshed...
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...What Do You Say After You Say Hello? By, Eric Berne Book Review by Suresh A M, I semester, MBA, JSSCMS Eric Berne was a psychoanalyst who became well known in the 1970s for his system of "transactional analysis", the transactions in question being mostly those between a young child and its parents. He proposed various structures for this relationship based on the roles parent/adult/child that every person plays and presents life stories as scripts that can be good or bad. This book is considered by many to be Eric Berne's sequel to Games People Play. Although Berne published other books since Games People Play was released in 1964, most of those works were oriented towards those trained in psychotherapy and not towards the individuals who made Games People Play a two-year bestseller. The book is his last book completed just before his death in 1970. Berne's bad luck was that he wrote the book in 1970 when psychology was going through a bad patch with a flood of bizarre systems appearing. The good gets lost with the bad and transactional analysis now tends to be labeled as an outmoded California fashion related to Freudianism. In the preface he says that the book is "primarily intended as an advanced textbook of psychotherapy, and professionals of different backgrounds should have no difficulty in translating into their own dialects the short and simple annals of transactional analysis. No doubt some non-professionals will read it too, and for that reason I have tried to make...
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