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Disney’s Cinderella demonstrates that, whatever the intention of its makers, modern day fairy tales function in our society as hidden instructions for morals and behaviors that we give children. On the surface, it seems to be a simple story about a young woman whose wishes come true. However, the story also reflects cultural expectations of women’s behaviors and goals and defines expectations of “goodness” for women. Power belongs to men in “Cinderella”, and it is depicted as a female ambition and goal. The storyline describes the rise of the submissive haracter to becoming a Princess; she is portrayed as a passive character who waits for the Prince to come for her. While waiting for her Prince Charming she also bears the mistreatment from her stepmother and stepsisters. While masculine power is taken for granted in the figure of the Prince, becoming his wife is the only way women have to share this power. The

In the play The Crucible written by Arthur Miller hatred and jealousy is shown through the character Abigail Williams. The play is about the Salem Witch Trials and all the drama that it entails. Most of the conflict in the play is caused by Abigail Williams. Since Abigail is motivated by her desire to kill Elizabeth Proctor, her decision to drink blood and start accusing innocent people causes many deaths by the end of the play.

One of the people’s traits affected by human nature in many stories is greed. As shown throughout, greed is an evil sin. This

Miller argues that to be greedy means you care about your own needs before anyone else. In The Crucible, Arthur Miller through his character Abigail Williams, who symbolizes greediness, to argue that there are greedy people in the world who will do anything to get what they want turning her into a person that feels heartless. Abigail Williams demonstrates greediness because she is needy, selfish, and determined.

Greed is undeniably a characteristic of being human. Even two hundred thousand years ago, when the first examples of modern humans were in a competition for food and survival, they naturally had to be greedy in order to survive and contribute to the gene pool in order for further generations to evolve and adapt. Darwin proved this with his theory of evolution stating that the species that are better adapted to the environment would be able to spend less time looking for food and more time mating (contributing to the gene pool), while the species who are not as well adapted would die off. The play “Macbeth” and the motion picture based on the book “A Simple Plan” display these themes of greed profusely as the main characters from each are affected by the same characteristic that had previously allowed for human survival. Macbeth in Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and Hank in the film “A Simple Plan” are both affected by greed as they both turn into murders who backstab their friends, they both ruin their relationship with their wives, and they both end up destroying their lives.

This modern fairy tale contains diverse characters but none of them are as important as the grandmother. In fact, through her narration the reader gets the basic

such as starvation and war. There are minor issues such as wanting new cell phones

Greed: the intense and selfish desire for something, greed is something that can control someone's actions or personality. In the story “The Crucibles” Rev Parris let his greed take over his mind and other choices during this period of time.

In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, act one reveals the evil selfish determined ways of Abigail Williams that eventually result in the destruction of many people in the town of Salem. After her abrupt affair and failure with voodoo magic she is overwhelmed by love and jealousy for John Proctor, she is determined to do anything to get John back with her. Abigail gives rise to the start of the witch trials, which result in the deaths of many innocent people in Salem she begins to fear that her secret will be exposed as the number of accused people increases. Abigail threatens to harm Betty and Mary if they confess. “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night...I can make you wish you had

Abigails motives is to be with john proctor and to protect her name. In the beginning she drank chickens blood to cruse elizabeth proctor when her parris found out. Abigail is a brilliant manipulator and a very good liar we see that in effect when she is in court and has to come up with a expectation of what she did in the woods. Abigail also as a young women in salem wants power and now that the most of the town would believe in what she says she keeps on going with this lie because of her thirst for power and she can use this newfound authority to get john proctor and remove elizabeth out of the picture

Cinderella’s story is undoubtedly the most popular fairy tale all over the world. Her fairy tale is one of the best read and emotion filled story that we all enjoyed as young and adults. In Elizabeth Pantajja’s analysis, Cinderella’s story still continues to evoke emotions but not as a love story but a contradiction of what we some of us believe. Pantajja chose Cinderella’s story to enlighten the readers that being good and piety are not the reason for Cinderella’s envious fairy tale. The author’s criticism and forthright analysis through her use of pathos, ethos, and logos made the readers doubt Cinderella’s character and question the real reason behind her marrying the prince. Pantajja claims that

There is nothing more precious and heartwarming than the innocence of a child. The majority of parents in society want to shield children from the bad in life which is appreciated. Within human nature exists desires of inappropriate behavior; envy, deceit, selfishness, revenge, violence, assault and murder. The most well-known fairy tales depict virtue and the evil in life. Even more important, the form and structure of fairy tales suggest images to the child by which he can structure his daydreams and with them give a better direction to his life. (Bettelheim).

Whether Female antagonists within fairy tales are portrayed in a positive or negative light their roles within the stories are very important if not crucial to the development of the protagonists. Karen Rowe in “Feminist and fairy tales” explains the divide between different female antagonists. Female antagonist come in all forms, Faeries, ogresses, evil queens, and evil witches step mothers and or step sisters. For the most part these characters are often divided between good and evil, or light and dark, but what is often realized, is that there isn’t much of a combination between the two groups in which an antagonist falls in between both categories. In this essay I will lay out the thematic roles of these different types of female antagonist’s portrayed within fairy tales.

The men in “Cinderella” also value women for their beauty. The prince has a ball for all the maidens in the land to find his future wife, which “amounts to a beauty contest” (Lieberman 386) for a new trophy wife. While some argue that Cinderella’s rebellion of going against her stepmother’s instructions of staying home shows that the story has feminist qualities, the prince weakens her achievement when he chooses her only because of her beauty as “girls win the prize if they are the fairest of them all” (Lieberman 385). Her need for independence is transformed into the prince’s need for a pretty wife, making her again an object in her family. Once integrated into the prince’s family, Cinderella goes from the maid of her family to the smiling porcelain doll next to the prince as the “first job of a fairy tale princess is to be beautiful” (Röhrich 110). This gives the impression that the only way

On the road to becoming fully human, people will face several tests in order to arrive at our targets and goals. Humans will encounter all sorts of obstacles during a lifetime. We need all the strength and determination one can muster in order to become a true human being. Being fully human is always a hope in people’s minds because we’re born into the world with a destiny. When people think about how a human’s instinct influences a person’s life, greed is one of humanity’s instincts that can profoundly impact the day to day life of a person. Greed as a part of desire could destroy a human’s life. A human will lose his family, money, and friends if he cannot control his greed. Appropriate desire can be the motivation for humans to move forward. On the other hand, greed as an excessive desire that is too strong will let people lose some things. Therefore, the desire should be used to be more fully human by directing toward love and survival instead of controlling.