Descriptive Essay : ' Excuse Me Princess '

In “Cinderella and Princess Culture,” Peggy Orenstein compares girls lives to princesses. Society is stereotyping girls as princesses negatively impacting girls well being. As a result, Orenstein claims society should stop stereotyping girls as princesses and have parents limit the girl's exposure to them. Orenstein proves her claim by stating playing with princesses lowers girls self-esteem and can harm their mental and physical health. Orenstein also states the word princess is such a broad meaning, that it is very misunderstood. For example, when one hears the word princess they can think of a girl wearing a fancy dress, or all the princess products. A lot of girls are being stereotyped as being a princess,

Fairy tales are timeless entities that will always be relevant in people’s lives. Fairy tales and stories offer entertainment, advice, and moral examples. The creation of fairy tales is important in the development of social norms. Children everywhere would read fairy tales and learn from them. As a result, these fairy tales are translated into multiple languages and allows people with different backgrounds to understand and relate to the story. People take these stories and adapt them to life around them. Within these adaptations of the same story, it is normal to observe slight differences that contribute as evidence in identifying the culture or societies in which these stories come from. Whether it is the slang of the dialogue or the change of location, modern producers and writers are known to take these classic stories and adding a significant twist to adjust to their cultural agenda. The movie, The Princess and the Frog, is a modern example of writers and directors creating a modern twist to the popular story of the Brother Grimm’s The Frog King. The Princess and the Frog and The Frog King both encode the mores, values, and beliefs of the cultures of the societies from which they come because, even though they both have similar plot ideas, the differences of the location and the differences of the overall specific plotlines attribute to understanding how their own specific cultures influence the adaptation and the actual story.

the personality of his duchess, he is shown to be a heartless, arrogant man. His complete

The Wide-Awake Princess is a series of fairy tale novels by popular American author E.D Baker. While Baker is one of the most prolific writers in the genre the Wide-Awake Princess series of novels is one of her most popular. She published the first novel in the series, The Wide-Awake Princess in 2010 and over the next 6 years, she published 6 more titles. The Wide-Awake series unlike the typical Princess story is a narrative told from the perspective of Sleeping Beauty without the magic powers. Annie, Sleeping Beauty’s sister plays chief protagonist on a quest to find love and to break magical spells. Traveling to exotic and far-flung kingdoms, Annie who is impervious to magic or curses stars as the heroine in freeing princes from animal bodies,

In the past, there have been countless princess movies or so-called “Cinderella” films. However, the general message that each one of these movies have given has changed as time has progressed. With this change, expectations placed on the princesses have been modified as well. This change in expectations has been thoroughly discussed by two authors, James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein. Poniewozik, a media and television critic for Time magazine, wrote an article entitled “The Princess Paradox” where he discusses this evolution of expectations. As well as him, Orenstein, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, wrote an article with the title of “Cinderella and Princess Culture” where she also discusses the development of the expectations on girls. Even though Poniewozik and Orenstein discuss the evolution of expectations portrayed on girls, Orenstein is able to illuminate the more complex ideas that Poniewozik is attempting to express based on the expectations of girls.

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William Goldman in The Princess Bride wrote, “Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. “Flaws, faults, and imperfections are all basic things people have, based on the saying that no one is perfect. Goldman wrote that flaws can turn into death, or even worse, humiliation. Humiliation is thought of as a very bad thing on byself, but if the public hears of your flawed errors, it turns into a major impact on your life. Monica Lewinsky, a former intern of the White House, is a good example of public humiliation. She made a speech called, “The Price of Shame”, which talks of how her flawed error of falling in love with the President out of lust, and how it caused a huge negative impact on her person, professional, and social life. Lewinsky’s story is very similar to the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which talks of a woman named Hester Prynne who is shamed with the act of adultery, she herself falling love with a man of higher authority. Their entire lives were affected dearly, by people looking at them, and saying things about them that were not true. Even today, public humiliation is taken as a punishment for people's mistakes, and taken to the max. In the article, “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?”, it talks of how public humiliation had taken an even more extreme and easy to achieve the same negative impacts on someone due to technology increase and social media’s. Public shame is something everyone fears. Not just because it would embarrass them, but it will ruin their lives. Someone's social and professional life could be deeply affected, and even a great deal of personal issues and family issues can arise.

The Princess Bride by William Goldman is a tale that is rendered new into many different scenarios. William Goldman uses lovers and royalty to play the fairy tale role in this book while also using evil. In the book the Princess Bride there’s a beautiful young women named Buttercup who lives on a Farm with a servant named Westley. As Westley is leaving for America for a better life Buttercup admits her love for him and asks him not to leave for America. While Westley is sailing to America is ship is attacked by the pirate ship Revenge. They leave no survivors! Buttercup hears the news in goes into a deep depression for a little while. (While all of this is happening the Prince of Florin is looking for a bride because his father is very

Authors James Poniewozik and Peggy Orenstein are both concerned with the increase of princess culture among young girls. Poniewozik’s article “The Princess Paradox” and Orenstein's article “Cinderella and Princess Culture” discuss similar aspects of princess culture that could be potentially harmful to it’s audience. Both Poniewozik and Orenstein take on a feminist perspective in their articles. Specifically, both authors discuss feminist themes in princess culture but Orenstein focuses on toddler to pre-teen aged girls while Poniewozik is more concerned with specifically teenagers.

“What the hell did you two do this time.” She Shook her head from side to side. Her head dropped to the side, a frown forming on her lips. “I can’t believe I put up with you guys.” She lifted her hand to her nose, pinched the bridge of her nose and uttered out a sigh. She took in a deep breath, exhaling it slowly. She took one step closer to the two men, her head tilting to the side. “Show me the damage you have done.” She stated in a calm voice, but deep down inside her annoyance level for the two was starting to

“I f——-g killed my sister, OK? I know I'm going to jail for life. This is the last thing I wanted to happen, OK? I don't f——-g care though, I'm going to hold it down. Rest in peace, sweetie. If you don't survive, I am so f——-g sorry.”

“Coming” she said with her upbeat voice. “Oh, Mary what are you doing here?” she said confused. “Have you been sleeping with my husband?” I say practically screaming. At this point there is no calming me down. “Mary, before you say anything, it wasn’t my fault it was yours.” she said and god it made me madder. “Are you saying that my husband cheating on me is my fault!” I said while everything in the room is becoming blurry. “Well, it wasn’t my fault he wasn’t getting the attention he needed.” she said. I had nothing else to say, I was done with talking. I grabbed the closest thing to me and it turned out to be a gun. POW! Went the gun. Red liquid was everywhere and any minute now there will be a cop here. I was about to leave until I seen my green truck pull up in the driveway. JOHN. He ran up to the door and began to band on the door. “Holly, Mary has gone crazy and I hit her. God I love her so much I can’t loose her.” he says. I open the door, but hide behind the door. “Oh my god! Holly, I am so sorry.” he says out loud. He leans down crying and kisses her on her lips wiping the blood all over her face. Before I knew it I heard another POW! “ Mam, come out or we will

In the beginning of the book “I am Princess X”, Libby and May became best friends and made Princess X. May and LIbby were always together. Whenever they were together a lot of the time they were making their comics. One day when Libby’s mom picked up Libby, but while she was driving home she fell asleep and drove off the bridge killing Libby and her mom. After their funeral Libby’s dad packed up and took everything with him including the Princess X comics.

For most parents, it is important for their daughters to grow up with strong female

     When examining adaptations of fairytales you must look at the original source. This can be a very difficult task because with fairytales we never really know where the original came from. I will base my paper on the theory that the original tale of Cinderella comes from the Grimm Brothers version of Ashputtle. In comparison we will examine two movies. First there is the Disney version Cinderella. Secondly we will look at the movie 'Ever After'.