Fairyclaw: A Fictional Narrative

In the article, Feminism and Fairy Tales, Karen Rowe focuses on the impact that fairy tales have on relationships and expectations for women today. One may wonder why it is love that is so prominent in fairy tales, rather than something else. However, Rowe provides the answer in her writing by saying, “…marriage is an estate long sanctioned by culture and theoretically attainable by all women” (356). Rowe suggests that many women dream of some day meeting their own Prince Charming and essentially writing their own fairy tale. Where, in order to do so, fairy tales have led them to believe that there is such thing as a perfect love, that marriage saves a woman from the harsh realities in life, and that life only truly begins with marriage.

Storytelling has been changing rapidly in recent years. Stories have been told orally, through books, and most recently movies. These stories provide an escape from reality for children and adults alike. Many fairy tales were originally thought to be enchanting and were meant to please a child’s endless imaginations and presents different teachings and morals (Moore 175). In the society seen today, many aspects of life are changing and fairytales have not been adapting consistently to these changes. The biggest contributor to fairy tales today, is Disney. Disney utilizes their popularity by shaping and dominating the world and creating notions of happiness and utopia (Zipes 17). While children find joy in these tales, Disney inserts their

In his evaluation of Little Red Riding Hood, Bill Delaney states, “In analyzing a story . . . it is often the most incongruous element that can be the most revealing.” To Delaney, the most revealing element in Little Red Riding Hood is the protagonist’s scarlet cloak. Delaney wonders how a peasant girl could own such a luxurious item. First, he speculates that a “Lady Bountiful” gave her the cloak, which had belonged to her daughter. Later, however, Delaney suggests that the cloak is merely symbolic, perhaps representing a fantasy world in which she lives.

Once upon a time, there was a literary genre commonly know as fairy tales. They were mystical and wonderful and a child’s fantasy. These fairy tales were drastically misunderstood throughout many centuries, however. They endured a hard life of constant changing and editing to fit what the people of that time wanted. People of our own time are responsible for some of the radical changes endured by this undeserved genre. Now, these fairy tales had a young friend named Belle. Belle thought she knew fairy tales very well, but one day she found out just how wrong she was.

Triumphant reward in spite of unjust punishment is a universal sentiment that transcends languages and cultures. There are thousands of folktales and fairy tales that are firmly rooted in individual cultures, yet the tale of Cinderella has been told through many centuries and throughout the far corners of the world. With thousands of versions of this classic tale in print worldwide, the tale is believed to have originated with the story of Rhodopis, a Greek slave girl who is married to an Egyptian King. The story of Rhodopis, which means rosy-cheeks, dates back to 7 BC and is attributed to a Greek geographer named Strabo. The Chinese variation of this fairy tale is named Yeh-hsien. The Chinese version is traceable to the year 860 and appears in Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang by Duan Chengshi. Yeh-hsien is a young girl, motherless and in the control of her stepmother, who befriends a treasured fish. The jealous step-mother kills the fish, but it’s bones provide Yeh-hsien with magical powers, eventually enabling Yeh-hsien to escape the control of her step-mother for a royal life. The Story of the Black Cow which is found within the pages of Folk Tales from the Himalayas by John Murray, published in 1906, the child who is mistreated by a stepmother is a male and the role of savior is portrayed by a snake, with a cow serving as the moral of the story, faithfulness. These two versions of Cinderella carry many common threads that are

Fairy tales is the term also used to describe something adored with unusual happiness, like “fairy tale ending” a happing ending or “fairy tale romance”, though not all fairy tale as a happy ending. A fairy tales is a type of short story that consistently features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy Tale Fairy tales may be acclaimed from other folk narratives such as legends which generally involves belief in the veracity of the events described and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables. Fairy Tale." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 June 2014. Web. 13 Nov. 2014. According to Arthur Schlesinger, classical tales “tells children what they unconsciously know-that human nature is not innately good, that conflict is real, that life is harsh before it is happy-and thereby reassure them about their own fears and their own sense of self” (229). Fairy tales, according to the British illustrator Arthur Rackman have become “part of our everyday thought and expression, and help to shape our lives” (229). Fairy tales are mostly used in any story that is not only true, but could not possibly be true. Maria Tatar the author of numerous articles on fairy tales and also ten scholarly books wrote that “fairy tales are up close and personal, telling us about the quest of romance and riches, for power and privilege, and, and most important, for a way

Yesterday afternoon, agent Lumber-Jack of the special forest division arrested Wally Wolfenstein of attempting to murder both Granny and Red Riding Hood. The incident occurred in Granny Hood's isolated cottage in the woods outside the town.

If you’re a fan of medieval times, you probably know the answer to this question or at least partially so. If not, please continue reading, and I'll give a basic explanation.

Medieval literature offers insight on gender, class, and race that our generation is still trying to understand. I aim to explore the reason why gender roles in Marie de France’s Lai de Lanval are flipped, and if this particular lai has an underlying political purpose. Marie de France was one of the most significant female writers of the Medieval Ages, and her romance work focuses on women along with their internal motivation rather than heroic acts of men. Her particular style of writing has brought attention to the way she creates her characters and plot. Several of Marie’s characters have interesting qualities, and perform certain actions that have caused the literary realm to take notice. Lanval himself—being the main character—attracts the majority of the attention: why did Marie choose to feminize him? The fairy queen also raises questions of women given masculine qualities, and why her role seemed much more like that of a man in the writings of other writers during Marie’s time. King Arthur and his queen, Guinevere, have a curious relationship and interact with each other—and others—in a manner that deserves a closer look. After viewing the gender roles of each of these characters, I want to discuss the possibility that Marie depicted her characters the way she did to take a political stance. However, before we can delve into the realm of underlying

Jiminy just stared at her a smile forming on his lips. This was the first time in a long time that he had actually taken the time to get to know someone, or try too. It was nice and he wondered why ha had taken so long to do so? Work of course was the answer, he always had so much of it that it left little to no time to socialize with others. Taking in a deep breath he cocked his head off to the side. “I know what you mean, it would be nice to have someone around you know who would support you. I believe that if you don’t have anyone to share your feeling, as well as your thoughts and wishes with life isn’t worth living. We are made to love one another not hate and be alone.” He shook his head slightly. A grin spread across his face at the

When Mig turns seven years old, she doesn't get a party or any presents. Instead, she just gets clouts to the ear and more chores. On that very same day,Mig goes into the field to take care of the sheep when she sees something glimmering in the distance. As it draws closer, she realizes that it's the royal family surrounded by knights on horseback. They're all gleaming from the armor, and Princess Pea is riding on a pure white horse and dressed in pretty clothes and jewelery.

MenaMoon looked up at BlueJay and nodded eating the leaves they were not tasty at all but if the helped her kits then it was fine. Hearing a startled mew she let out a Meow herself before getting up quickly and putting RedKit back with her siblings before curling up around her Kits letting them nurse. MenaMoon's mind wandered wondering where BearCloud is "Um BlueJay you wouldn't happen to know where my mate is would you?" She asked looking around her ears alert seeing if she heard BearCloud at all in camp.

1. What is the genre of this story? Are there any other possible genres this story could fall into?

As we grow up, we hear fairy tales and we read them into our lives. Every word and every image is imprinted into our minds. The fairy tales we read are never abandoned. They grow with us and our dreams become molds of the many morals and happily ever afters fairy tales display. We tell children fairy tales when they go to sleep and they read them in school and we even have them watch Disney adaptions that reinforce them further. Generally, they were everywhere while we grew up and they continue to be present while children are growing up now. But what influence do these stories have? We casually expose our children to these tales, but in some cases they can have particularly, harmful personal effects on them, although there is nothing completely or visibly “bad” about them or about the characters in them. Before we divulge our youth to these stories, we should assess their substance and see what sort of effect they may be having on them. They have received so much scrutiny and have been studied by many. Recognizing fairy tales effects on the minds of children is vital in their development. This paper will focus on the underlying messages that the average person wouldn’t recognize in these everyday stories. There’s a modern distort with fairy tales because while they still are widely popular with the youth, they influence children’s self images, outlooks on reality and expectations for their futures, especially for young women.

All fairy tales continue to be relevant in today’s world. The adventurous stories are continually thriving through the different techniques that writers use including the themes that each tale embraces to draw their readers in and remember them. This allows for the fairy tales to be prevalent to the world today.