Grimm's Fairy Tales: A Literary Analysis

Melody Banks Stacy Sivinski English 102 21 August 2015 Summarize a Source Romancing the Tale: Walt Disney’s Adaptation of the Grimms’ “Snow White” talks about how Walt Disney use current social and popular culture to create the first full length animated movie of his time. Despite the fact, that many filmmakers thought a full length animated movies wouldn’t be successful, Disney knew exactly what it would take to make the movie a success. He incorporated love, comedy, heroine, politics and more to created a movie that would have something for everyone in the family. He manipulated these element just right to create the perfect fairytale. In creating Snow White, he not only used these elements but he also added intriguing cinematography

Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen: A Case Study The evolution of music can be viewed as a linear timeline of key, innovative composers who have far-reaching influences upon the musical continuum and perhaps epitomises the societal views which are relevant to their time period through their canonical pieces. As a result, in order to conduct a case study into any piece of music one must first realise said piece in regards to the concurrent political climate. Between 1642 and 1651 England was characterised by turmoil through civil war, which was essentially caused over the conduct of British government. This war was between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists, with the Parliamentarians being the victor.

Most of the children read about many fairy tales, especially Snow Whites, Sleeping beauty, and Cinderella when they grew up. It is a surprising fact that to discover a hidden, unexpected political intention in the simple plot of fairy tales. That is a feminization of woman. The fairy tale world suggests a male-centered patriarchy as an ideal basic society and impliedly imply that man and woman need to have a proper attitude toward this opinion. However, Jewett’s A White Heron describes a new perspective of fairy tale’s plot.

Foster claims that many authors chose to include allusions of fairy tales in their works, because these authors assume that their readers will understand allusions of fairy tales more than any other allusions, and create an irony of a situation in the literature. For instance, Foster details one author using allusion of fairy tales by “upends our expectations about the story of Bluebeard, or Puss-in-boots, or Little Red Riding Hood to make us see the sexism inherent in those stories” (Foster 60). Foster implies that there is vast amount of fairy tales for authors to incorporate them into their work. Additionally, Foster states that fairy tales are timeless, despite the “age-appropriateness” of the literature.

Aiden Lariviere Mrs. Cevoli Fairy Tales 1-12-23 The Grimm Brother Settle Their Differences The Grimm Brothers have a plethora of stories, some are happy, some are sad. But all of them use symbols, and have fantastical factors such as talking animals and unrealistic scenarios. While they have many stories just a few of them include, The Frog Prince also known as the The Frog King, The twelve Huntsmen a tale of a mischievous ex wife and the Twelve Princesses a story about twelve disobedient princesses who run away in the night.

There a play is shown upon the stage, with two great choruses from the Home of the Actors, which speak and answer all together, in two great voices. The plays are about toil and how good it is”(33). First they sing about Brotherhood, equality and collective spirit and then they watch a play about how good work is. All they ever do in their free time is learn how good the

The story of Cinderella is well known all across the world and most countries have their own versions of the fairytale. While each story might have unique differences, they all have major character and story archetypes that play key parts to exemplify the major themes. An archetype can be any type recurring theme, symbol or pattern throughout a story. For example, the German retelling of Cinderella, titled Ashputtle, has many archetypes that play off the theme. The authors, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, use specific archetypal narrative patterns such as a greedy, cruel relative who behaves unfairly, a series of tests, often impossible, that a character must pass or a just end that rewards good and punishes evil to illustrate major themes of love,

The tales selected by the Grimm brothers aim to guide and influence the youth with moral messages depicted through colorful character designs. The synergy between the cast allows for a definitive contrasts of morals, and demonstrates to the youth a formulated standard of good and evil. Within most tales, these opposing sides bargain in some form, in order to accomplish personal goals by utilizing one another. In the story, The Frog King, the importance of fulfilling agreements is mentioned and is greatly reinforced by the words of a king.(Grimm,pg.3) However, the Grimm brothers elaborate that pacts between strangers lack trust, and can be easily diminished when negative emotions become involved.

Many families have many traditions, but one tradition that is common among all households is that they read fairy tales to their children right before they put them to sleep. They do this to fill their minds with good positive thoughts and leave them with something to think about. Religion dictates the characteristics of familiar fairy tales as religion provides a moral and ethical framework for having a good life, an ideal goal parents want their children to have. On the whole, fairy tales are constantly changed to adhere to cultural or social beliefs that are deemed important by diverse people in a community.

Therefore, the Boy’s “Hero’s Journey” in The Road, while certainly not a traditional Hero’s Journey, does contain several key elements of the journey, such as a mentor, tests, and a supreme ordeal. However, the atypical journey of the Boy, particularly the lack of a clear denouement, allows the Hero’s Journey of the Boy to become open to the interpretation of the reader, and therefore allow the reader to transpose their own experiences and journey to the Boy as he struggles to keep the fire

The novel, Beowulf, intertwines and twists many different motifs within its story. These include monsters, weapons, and feasting. One motif, storytelling, is woven throughout the tale, and has an essential role in Beowulf. With little or no access to the written word, storytelling was the ideal way to spread ideas for public consumption. Oral tales provide a view into Anglo Saxon beliefs, how their monarchy functioned, and their socio-political structure.

In nature two trees can have many similarities, but they all have their own little differences. The same thing can be said for “The Tell Tale” and “The Raven” both written works by the author Edgar Allan Poe. “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story about an insane man who wants to murder a man just because of the old man's eye. “The Raven” is about a man who is trying to get rid of a raven in his house and takes out the anger of his dead wife on the raven Even though Edgar Allan POE’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven” have their differences, but also share many similarities.

Fairytales and writings about a dystopian world have been popular for a long time, but putting the two together is quite a recent phenomena. The reason for its popularity could be that fairy tales in a modern context are easier to relate to for today’s generation. Also, as the target audience of these is usually teenagers and young adults, the dystopian setting could serve as a warning for them. Behind the exciting and adventurous story, there is usually a deeper meaning, as the authors of dystopian fiction reflect on the problems of our generation, and how it could destroy our world if we do not change anything.

The twentieth century saw the development of fantasy as a popular genre for children as childhood became an increasingly protected sphere of life, and consequently, elements meant to provoke terror became increasingly insipid in literature for younger audiences. The presentation of the stories is distinctively nationalistic, illustrating a pride in nation, a pride that has brought forth “forgotten specimens of folklore.” Dawn Heerspink, in her article, No Man’s Land”: Fairy Tales, Gender, Socialization, Satire, and Trauma During the First and Second World Wars, speaks to fairy tales' intriguing duality and how they were used during wartime for adult-produced propaganda aimed at both children and adults.

Disney, alike many other popular storytellers, want these known stories to be friendly, animated, and with an intended audience of children. This is ironic because a retired professor of German and comparative literature from the University of Minnesota, Jack Zipes, directly compares this theme to a news interviewer that “the Grimm’s did not collect these tales for children. They collected these tales to show what life was like. And they wanted to reveal what they considered the divine truths of the tales.” It is obvious that Disney does not have the same motive as the Grimm’s did.