The Villain In H. Ch. Andersen's Fairy Tales

Maria Tatar’s “An Introduction to Fairy Tales” discusses the impact on how the stories help guide the children from their younger age. The first five paragraphs of the article mentioned about how the children can overflow with imagination, and can vividly see their reality of desire and also, fear. The fairytales can also corrupt the naïve minds of the child in a way of making them realize the reality of the world is unjustified, and people can be harsh. Moreover, Tatar gives an explanation on how people grow up with the same fairy tales with different versions; which gives an entirely different personal idea. Fairy tales also develop the child’s intellectual mind by reading various kinds of genre.

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.

Orenstein uses the Disney princess persona and describes it as a major turning point in the perception of fairy tales. The original fairy tales described as grim and macabre, transformed as time passes and started to appeal to many more people; the dark theme turned into a happy and pleasant princess love story that Disney is now famous for. An example, stated by Orenstein is the tale of Snow White, which originally, in short, involves rape and murder. Eventually, over

Fairy Tales are not just stories that parents tell to their children, but stories with hidden valuable messages which are mostly left on a side. In the article “An Introduction to Fairy Tales,” Maria Tatar clearly explains how people need fairy tales in their lives. Tatar also states how fairy tales have the ability to take the listener, especially children’s, into a journey in which they can play with their imagination so that they can discover their deepest fears and wishes. Personally I agree with the author, because of the fact that in an individual’s lives as they get older, they will try to define themselves, sometimes comparing their own life with a character from their favorite story or Fairy Tale.

Appearing as a fiction genre, fairy tales, or children's literature ,detach readers and listeners minds from the reality to another dimension where all magical and spiritual things can occur. Most of the fairy tales that one might encounter originate from Brothers Grimm, two German writers who travelled to many places to collect folk tales during the 19th century and rewrote them into fairy tales. Usually, the stories that Brothers Grimm write implicitly contain a moral message, values within the society which aimed to teach children. Snow White, a famous fairy tale that a lot of children have heard of, teach them not to interact with other strangers, good karma will happen to those of who be good and mean well. However, looking at a bigger pictures, fairy tales in general, and Snow White particularly,

It's easy for childhood fairy tales to manifest and influence authors in their adult lives. Both Van Der Zee and Godwin write the two stories almost as if they were fairy tales, unfortunately only one has the patented

Fairy tales always have a way of making the reader feel really connected to the protagonist through the use of hardship. Readers get attached to the protagonist by using their own life’s problem to replace with the protagonist’s problem and the journey of the protagonist overcoming their problems gives the reader sense of hope to look forward to in their own lives and maybe they can solve their own problems. Fairy tales give people hope in tough times because when they can not solve a problem, they often to refer back to struggles characters in fairy tales that did not give up, but kept going as

Most of you have probably heard of the Grimm brothers, and if you haven’t heard of them, you have most likely seen their work. Disney movies like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella are child friendly versions of the Grimm brothers’ original fairy-tales. Ironically, the brothers had no intention on becoming story-tellers, when first starting their journey. The book The Annotated Brothers Grimm stated, that when trying to study other languages they found it easiest and best to share stories that had been passed down generation to generation. The brothers kept all the stories they had heard and published a book in 1812 called Kinder und Hausmarchen, which translates to “Tales of Children and thee Home”. Believe it or not, fairy tales were not always about finding true love, and “having a

Written in the early 1800s in Denmark, “The Little Mermaid” is an excellent display of a mix of Danish mythology, beliefs, and society. Denmark is a country that has always been heavily reliant on water, as it and its surrounding lands are surrounded by it. Thus, a large portion of their mythology revolves around the ocean and its creatures, such as mermaids. In the beginning of the 19th century, a public education system was set up in Denmark, which prompted an enormous influx of literature and philosophy. Among such literary works came “The Little Mermaid”, written by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen is known for his writing style and the way characters act and respond. “His very first tale, ‘The Tinder Box’, opens in a

The first villain is the Witch from Snow White. The thing that makes her a villain is because she tries to ruin Snow because Snow White is beautiful. The Evil Queen wants to become the fairest in the land. Author Quest states that the evil queen gets mad “ When she finds out about the Huntsman renegged, she goes undercover to poison her to death”(pg1). She uses her dark magic to turn herself into an old woman so she can put a spell on Snow to kill her. Everyday she talks to her magic mirror and asks, who is the fairest in the land. She

Cinderella and A Wrinkle in Time are alike in many ways. In Cinderella the villain may not be as villainy as the man with red eyes, which is the villain in A Wrinkle in Time. the man with red eyes is a very evil man who lives on the planet Comozart. This man has captured Meg, Calvin, Charles Wallace, and last but not least Mr. Murry. The man with red eyes also had many more power than the evil stepmother in Cinderella, he was able to control minds, tale over people, and have the ability to walk through things. He was able to do this by moving the atoms apart in the wall and walk

Negative female antagonist play a very particular role within fairy tales. The female antagonists are often very dominant, they are not married and unable to bare children due to the fact that they are usually old. However there are times in which the antagonist is a beautiful women who’s jealously often overbears her physical appearance. In “Snow White” Snow’s Step mother is constantly looking for assurance about her physical appearance, so she confides in her magic mirror, “Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?” (Grimm 54). Snow white’s stepmother is taken aback and enraged after later being told that she is no longer the prettiest woman. “You my queen, are fair; it is

Maleficent is portrayed to be evil in the story ,but really is caring. The only reason she became a form of evil is because Stephen (the soon to be prince) cut off her wings. In real life she is only protecting her and the forest from human greediness. After placing the curse on Aurora the king gives her to the pixies to live in secret. Only the pixies don't know how to raise the baby so she sends her henchmen to take care of the baby (who she is supposed to hate). Even later on when the pixies aren't paying attention she saves the baby from falling off the cliff. Although she has differences with the moores she still repairs the forest and keeps it safe, including the crow Diaval. When she meets the Aurora she tries to take off the curse and

Fairytales have been told for thousands of years. Some of the most famous fairy tales were German in origin and were collected by the Grimm brothers. Jakob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm were scholars that spent most of their time together. In 1838, they began writing a German dictionary while they were working as librarians. In 1840 king Fredrich Wilhelm IV sent both brothers to the Royal Academy of Sciences. (Gioia) (pp.12-13) Following this the two brothers spent the rest of their lives teaching at the University of Berlin. The two brothers were also known for other projects such as, books about mythology, scholarly works on topics such as, linguistics and medieval studies. They also worked on compiling an ambitious German

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.