Fairy tales are full of tropes and stereotypes that exist from story to story, one of the main ones being the “happily ever after” ending. Most fairy tales, especially the traditional Perrault or Grimm versions, fall prey to this trope where the main goal is for the princess to find her prince, get married, and live happily ever after. Many critics, particularly feminist critics, find this trope to be problematic because of the extreme emphasis placed on marriage as women’s main, if not only, objective…

version. Overall, the tale from the Brother’s Grimm is much darker than the romanticized Disney version. For example, in the Disney adaptation of the tale, the wicked queen simply asks that the heart of Snow White be brought to her. In the Grimm’s version however the wicked queen demands the lungs and liver of Snow White so that she may eat them. Additionally, while the Grimm version, like the Disney version, features a prince that Snow White rides away with at the end of the tale, the circumstances…

Fairy tales have been told throughout time ever since gathering of people there’s been demand for telling stories to an audience. What started out as oral tales eventually evolved into written fairy tales. People now began to write stories for the young children that would teach them important life lessons that would be of major importance to them in the years to come. These lessons that were introduced into fairytales played an important role in the development of their unshaped minds because…

Fairy Tales were use as children’s bedtime stories and at often times it teaches a lesson. Many of these tales were originally passed down orally and it was popular among the peasants. Only recently, a couple hundred years ago, has these tales been written down because back in the days many people were illiterate. Even though the adults maybe reading the stories to the child, the child often alters it. That’s why there’s so many different version of the same stories. In most Fairy Tales the villains…

Introduction ‘Once upon a time’ is perhaps days when it was one of our hobbies to read fairy tales as a part of our daily routine. These fairy tales took us to the world of fantasy, happiness, sorrow, dilemma and we had the very tendency to fantasise these characters to be real. These tales had a happy conclusion where good inevitably wins over the evil with a happy ending; and ending lines mostly happened to be ‘and they happily lived ever after’. These endings justified the human sense of justice…

Fairy Tales: The Tales of Hope For many years fairy tales have served to entertain and teach morals to listeners. However, one very important function of a fairy tales is to give hope to the poor. These fairy tales do this by telling tales of rags to riches, showing cleverness can set you free, and giving having happily ever after endings. By looking at various tales and keeping the audience in mind one can clearly see how a fairy tale serves as a beacon of light to those in the dark. Hope is a…

have known about fairy tales since I was a little girl. I grew up watching all of the Disney movies. My dad would also read and tell my sister and me bedtime stories that were fairytales. When I was younger, I would dress up like princesses such as Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” and “Cinderella.” I have always loved fairy tales because they are magical and young girls like me looked up to the princesses and had crushes on the princes. I would love to know more about fairy tales and the authors who…

Everything from music, to movies, and fairytales has been influenced by society. More specifically, society has influenced the Grimm Brothers fairy tales. The Grimm Brothers fairy tales would be considered dark and gruesome by today’s standards. Parents would not allow their own children near the stories, which caused society to give the tales a more PG feeling. The tales changed and became what we know them as today. Disney has played a major role in creating the innocent versions that today’s early generations…

specific type of study can be valuable when looking at all types of literature, but a specific branch of literature, fairy tales, offers an intriguing outlook. Fairy tales are some of the oldest stories in literary text; in this scenario the question becomes the following: How and to what extent does the given cultural situation affect the status of fairy tales in that time? Fairy tales are the center of constant analysis by literary scholars and psychoanalytic experts alike. The stories are probed…

1. What is the genre of this story? Are there any other possible genres this story could fall into? This story is a Fairy-tale. Fairy-tales often have very archetypal and flat characters, often only embellished in re-tellings by various authors/story-tellers. It can be presumed that this is because most fairy-tales come from European oral tradition, so only the most essential things about the plot remain. In this case, the archetypal folkloric characters are the king, the princesses (the youngest…