Daniel Western Mr. Fatheree 2nd period May 20, 2014 The Art of Gameing Literature has always been considered the original medium of entertainment. It allowed the reader to enter another world and to see the veal world from the writer’s point of view. Eventually new forms of storytelling sprang forth like cinema. This evolution of storytelling allowed an artist to express their ideas without uttering a single word. So this brings up the question, “What is the next evolution of storytelling?”
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on the path straight to her grandmothers house, the wolf wouldn’t have been able to beat her there to quietly eat her grandmother. Therefore, it’s good to obey ones orders to ensure the safety of oneself and those around them. This version of the tale by the Brothers Grimm was specifically written for an audience of German children in the 19th century. The claim that it is good to obey is very important to the audience because it taught children to listen to their parents so that they would not
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As art, any tale reflects the social order and worldview of those who create it and makes a statement about their goals for telling it. The distinction between a fairy tale and another kind of story, however, lies in the cultural significance of the fairy tale as a form of folklore. In his essay “The Four Functions of Folklore,” William Bascom indicates that those functions are amusement, validation of culture, education, and enforcement of cultural mores; folklore is “a means of applying social
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Everyday, there are humans living in poverty and in hospitals who strive to survive so that they can live another day. In the novel Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Snowman, the protagonist, tries to survive on an isolated land with the children of Oryx and Crake, and in the novel La Prisonniere by Malika Oufkir, translated by Michelle Fitoussi, Malika tries to survive twenty years in a desert gaol. In both novels, the characters realize that survival is challenging, however, with the companionship
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Atwood has taken the experience of women to the extreme in her novel, however there are still clear parallels between her novel and the society we live in now. For example, women in Atwood’s world are forced to wear ‘wings’ which are to ‘keep [them] from seeing’. This may be seen as shocking to our society which is predominantly a Christian where we can wear whatever we want- but in some religions such as Islam, the women wear a veil or a full body dress to disguise their body shape from other men
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is barely present. In Tangled, however, there is a focus on men who are much more developed then the typical Prince Charming character. While the roles of women have significantly changed in fairy tales since becoming popular, the roles of men have stayed the same. The heroes of these fairy tales appear to be rich and powerful but what they do lack is personality. For example, in the movie Snow White, the Prince comes out of thin air but he’s handsome, and rich, and his character hadn’t even been
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Little Red Riding Hood from Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner. There once was a young person named Red Riding Hood who lived with her mother on the edge of a large wood. One day her mother asked her to take a basket of fresh fruit and mineral water to her grandmother's house--not because this was women’s work, mind you, but because the deed was generous and helped create a feeling of community. Furthermore, her grandmother was not sick, but rather was in full physical and
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THE WEREWOLF / CARTER Summary The narrator of "The Werewolf" sets the story's ominous tone with the opening sentence: "It is a northern country; they have cold weather; they have cold hearts." The people in this country are poor and live short, hard lives. They are superstitious to the point of conducting witch-hunts and stoning any witches found (identified by a telltale third nipple) to death. We focus in on a young girl. Her mother sends her into the forest to bring food to her ill grandmother
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Cupid and Psyche Characters: NarratorKingQueenSister 1Sister 2CupidPsycheOracle of ApolloJupiterVenusProserpineCeresVoicesPrinces and kings Narrator : A certain king and queen had three daughters. The charms of the two elder were more than common, but thebeauty of the youngest was so wonderful that the poverty of language is unable to express its due praise. The fame of her beauty was so great that strangers from neighboring countries came in crowds to enjoy the sight, and looked on her with
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lives a king named Stefan and his beautiful queen, Elsa, and a frog in the pond called Jordan. I mean, the frog was called Jordan. Not the pond, it would be silly. The pond was called Samantha. Anyway, King Stefan and Queen Elsa were in their fairy tale home up on a hill. Their days were peaceful and quiet, all sweetness and light, all gentle and tranquil. Their days were a long horribly dull holidays. SCENE 1 - THE PALACE King Stefan: I’m bored, bored and bored. (Dozes off, reawakens) [SE: SNORING
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