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    Many people wonder where all the Cinderella stories originated from? They originated from the most popular version written in French by Charles Perrault written in 1607. The Little Golden book, the Grimm brothers version and the 2015 Disney Film version of Cinderella are all taken from the original story. All Cinderella stories have the same storyline, but there are differences and similarities between the archetypes and the characters and in the theme in the three versions. There are lots of archetypes

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    put in a country house and gets raped by a King, Talia has twins, upsets the Queen who tries to murder the twins and Talia. The Queen ends up dead and the King, Talia, and their twins live happily ever after. Sleeping Beauty in the Woods by Charles Perrault is very different than the first and is set in a medieval castle. Sleeping Beauty, a Prince, and an Ogress are the main characters and there are also the fairies that gift Sleeping Beauty. The story all starts when Sleeping Beauty is born and

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    Sleeping Beauty

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    Hanlin Chen DNC100 Spring 2018 Report On The Sleeping Beauty Choreography refers to the art of designing dance moves to fit a given musical best. Mainly, it involves ordering sequences of body movements lain over the period of a song, often for ballet or staged dances (Sita 6). There are numerous choreographies created over the years, and the courses therein vary, depending on the tempo and mood of the songs, which in turn are informed by the genre of music in the play. In this regard, the essay

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    According to Refinary 29, “there are reportedly 345 to 1500 versions of Cinderella.” The first version of Cinderella originated in France written by Charles Perrault in 1697 (Donahue). Different versions of Cinderella can be found as movies, books, plays, and poems. Three of the most popular versions are Little Golden Book Cinderella, the Grimm brothers version of “Cinderella”, and the Disney 2015 film Cinderella. In the various versions of Cinderella, similarities and differences can be found in

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    Bluebeard Theme

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    Bluebeard, a short novel by Charles Perrault, is about a nobleman who had a habit of murdering his wives if they had betrayed him. In the story, Bluebeard is determined to find himself a new wife because his last one, and several of his others, disappeared suddenly. In order to find himself a new wife, he hosts a weeklong party that included some of “pleasure, hunting, fishing, dancing, and dining”(Tatar, 144). Two of the sisters who he was seeking to marry first believed that he was just an old

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    tale Little Red Riding Hood is said to originate from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century in Europe. Originally this tale was told orally thus the many different versions of this story. The first written versions are said to be published by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm. Though the versions are very similar there are small differences. In Perrault’s version Little Red Riding Hood is told to bring her grandmother a cake and a little pot of butter, though in Grimm’s version it is written

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    Essay on Disney's Medievalesque Sleeping Beauty

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    employed the most up-to-date technological means and used his own American "grit" and ingenuity to appropriate European fairy tales. His technical skills and ideological proclivities were so consummate that his signature obfuscated the names of Charles Perrault, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Collodi. If children or adults think of the great classical fairy tales today, be it Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, or Cinderella, they will think Walt Disney. " --Jack Zipes,

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    Growing up most of us were tucked into bed and our parents read us a story before going to sleep, fairy tales in most cases. I personally remember hearing all about princess , dragons and cute mystical creatures that always had a happy ending no matter how much they went though to get there. After reading the fairy tales in our text book i initially thought they were a little too grusm and inapporpiate for children but after analyzing them and thinking things through i concluded that fairy tales

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    Fairy Hood Culture

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    Riding Hood” has gone through so many different versions and messages, from the first fairy tale to the versions of the primary source told today. The articles explain the evolution of the fairy tale of “Little Red Riding Hood.” From scholars "Charles Perrault and the Evolution of 'Little Red Riding Hood” by Francisco Vaz da Silva, is an article that identifies the difference between the Ancient and

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    It is a story for children of a little girl visiting her grandmother which is first published by a French author Charles Perrault in the XVII century. I would consider that the most important is the particular scene where Jane come close to Mr. Brocklehurst and starts to explore his face: "what a great nose! and what a mouth! and what large prominent teeth!" (p. 32, chapter

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