Brothers Grimm

Fairy tales are considered works of fiction because of the fantastically unrealistic locations, characters, and events. However, I know of a place that is equally utopian, yet deemed to be a part of our shared reality. I’ve even been there. I’ve seen nature at its purest, met people at their kindest, and experienced a kind of personal growth that has changed the course of my life forever. This Shangri-la is not found in a James Hilton novel, but rather in Wake Forest, North Carolina. While its…

on its way. In Rumpelstiltskin, an old and poor miller could not provide for his family, but he had a beautiful daughter; he decided to find a way to get her into the castle. He told the king that his daughter could “spin straw into gold”. (Jacob Grimm et al. 181) The miller’s daughter was indeed beautiful, but she could not spin straw into gold; her savior seemed to be on his way as well. In both cases, destitution forced the three soldiers and the poor miller to make rash decisions that will…

The fairies in A Midsummer Night’s Dream are much like the mythological water beasts sirens. Both are manipulative, humanlike, and romantically inclined. Despite their similarities, both their motives and their means of interaction with humanity vary- as do their appearances. Shakespeare’s fairies are playful and mischievous, but ultimately not evil creatures. They cause both harm and good, indeed both the conflict and resolution of the story are caused by the fairy’s shenanigans. Fairies…

Little red cap is the original story and hoodwinked is the fractured story. What make hoodwinked a fairy tale is that it is linked with little red cap and is not the same but the main features are changed for example granny in hoodwinked is active and all about living life and in the little red cap she is sick in bed. Some of the massive differences is that the recipes are being stolen, that red is a bit mouthy, no one dies in hoodwinked. Some of the things that are similar is that there is a…

When examining "Snow White" from an Archetypal perspective, it becomes clear that this fairytale symbolizes curiosity, death, and freedom. These main topics are specifically shown through the use of animals. When analyzing the symbols, many come into affect. The three animals that visited Snow White’s coffin could represent many different things. The order that the animals arrived in is the base of the pattern for this fairytale. When the owl visits, it could symbolize the need for knowledge…

Within sections 13 and 22 of Briar Rose, the author establishes a sense of parallelism by adding a meta aspect to them. During both sections, the crone retells the Perrault’s version of Sleeping Beauty to Briar Rose. As the crone continues with the story, she adds and takes details out of the story, adjusting it for her audience, Briar Rose, causing the story to feel “vaguely reassuring...[but] unlike a happy ending” (Coover 13). Due to the crone’s addition or subtraction to the story, she…

The Crossing: A Literary Analysis Man can easily feel miniscule in comparison to the grandeur of mother nature. Cormack McCarthy’s The Crossing details the emotions of the main character after losing his wolf, and it illustrates a dramatic dichotomy between mankind and nature. The excerpt’s inclusion of sacred language and drawn-out sentence structure concerning the burial of the wolf suggests that the experience was both solemn and awe-inspiring to the protagonist. The reverent language…

What are the differences between the two childhood stories, Red Riding Hood and Goldilocks? The story, Red Riding Hood, is a tale about a girl delivering cakes to her grandmother. However,there is a wolf on the prowl that wants to eat her. The story of Goldilocks is about a little girl breaking into a house owned by three bears. While she is in the bears’ house, she eats their food and takes a nap. Overall, there are several similarities and differences in the two short stories The stories have…

Elves instill an encompassing fear on humans. Whether it be giving an explicit fear through practices of control and nightmare or an implicit fear through practices of gift giving and non-threatening power demonstration, elves produce multiple degrees of fear into the inferior, unfortunate humans. Elves use multiple methods to make themselves feared explicitly. Some methods found in folktales include: task requests (cf. The Godmother, Elfin Woman in Childbirth), physical control (cf. Hild Queen…

Icy Figures Did you know, that all snowflakes are different? They are amazing, unique figures. Flakes are beautiful because of their extraordinary shapes, their variety of myths, and how they're created from the dust of the earth. It's good to know about snowflakes because according to Fake Flakes by Trent Bradshaw, most stores, schools, libraries, and many other similar places have an incorrect replica decoration about a real snowflake. I'm not saying you can't put up a design with the…