it’s clear that remastering fairytales is big right now. After viewing the trailer, I had high expectations about the 1987 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine directed by Rob Marshall “Into the Woods”, an intermingling of the Grimm fairy tales, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel. Except for an occasional giggle, magical scenery and period costumes, the Disney rated PG film adaptation musical “Into the Woods” was a dark, hodge-podge of Grimm fairytales
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Our group decided to choose the 2015 version of Cinderella as our cultural artifact. It took a lot of discussion but we ended up coming to an agreement. We decided to connect it with Sonnet 55. Each of these will be discussed in more details as well as how this poem connects to today’s world. We liked this movie because the story of Cinderella is such an old story has been retold countless times. It has survived for hundreds of years and is very popular still today. We liked the new take that this
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I recently finished reading a book, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, which was published in 1985. This book is fictional, and it is set in a futuristic time in the United States where women become property of men once again, and have essentially lost all aspects of individual rights. Women are forced to change their names to government regulated, predetermined names, cannot have a career, cannot have their own family, or even speak their opinions. These women are forced to wear a certain
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In The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer shows us a vivid glimpse into the medieval society. Through his work we have been able to determine how people of each social class and profession have been stereotyped. These stereotypes could possibly have been true for many individuals, giving us more of an insight to these olden times. In the beginning of the novel, Chaucer gives a descriptive prologue to each of the twenty-nine characters. Through these descriptions we are shown who is admired by the
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Did your parents read you faritales when you were little. Yes most of us were. Most people came in contact of fairytales from family and the news. Fairy tales can seem innocent. Who ever Fairy Tales should not be read to children. My first reason why fairy tales should not be read to children is they do not send a good message to females. In the text it states “50 percent of parents surveyed said that they didn't read their kids cinderella because the heroin spends her days doing housework” (gray)
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Getting married with the person that you just met and barely knowing not a single thing about that person will not always have the happily ending. Some Disney characters may have gone through things in their life that has affected the love life. Disney believes that every Love Story will end up happily married “ find characters when they get married and instantly activate the happily-ever-after claus”. (5 Awful Lesson Disney Teaches you about Relationship). Having problems with trust and love can
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Canterbury Tales Image you lived in a world where living in the middle class made you a well respected citizen, well this is the world imagined in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. This was a world re-imagined taking the norm of knight and nobility being top class, and turning it around. This promoted peasant and middle class to rise up make something for themselves. The idea that a person in the middle class could afford to go on a pilgrimage like the one described in The Canterbury Tales. Some topics
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Makayla Spencer Ms.Milliner English, Pd8 Freedom is Power In the novel The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood the word that is repetitively used Is freedom. In Gilead the handmaid's worth is only good for one thing and that is for bearing a children. Throughout the book it has a lot of biblical references using those as a way to have a hold over the handmaids to keep them at a place towards the wives and commanders. We have Offred a once happy wife and mother with an education and job who had to
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Sir Degare retains relevance to a modern audience because it contains the storytelling elements of the ever familiar “hero tale;” in contrast, the Robin Hood tales, most specifically A Gest of Robyn Hode, tell the tale of the popular “anti-hero.” The story elements in these tales are timeless, but what makes them last beyond their time are that they both give an answer to the purpose of human existence. In this case, the question asked is this: in life, do people need to prioritizes themselves, or
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Chaucer is going on a pilgrimage to Canterbury in April with 29 other people. In the “Prologue”, Chaucer introduces and describes all the pilgrims who will go with him to Canterbury. He depicts the characters with their clothing, social status, personality traits, and manners to show the weaknesses and flaws of the clergy members. The seven deadly sins are lust, pride, greed, sloth, envy, wrath, and gluttony. The deadly sins help show the flaws in the pilgrims. In Chaucer’s “Prologue”, he uses clergy
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