Jack and the Beanstalk

The argument is whether Jack and the Beanstalk is a fairy tale or not. What is a fairy tale? A fairy tale is a story that has a lot of fiction. Fairy tales also contain aspects including bad or good characters, royalty and poverty; it also has magic and enchantments such as magical creatures. There is conflict, in a fairy tale there are reoccurring patterns 3s and/or 7s. Over the years Jack and the Beanstalk has been changed into many different versions .The version that has been chosen is the one

Jack Mehoff S. Nuttickler English 110 2/8/10 Fairy Tale Essay-Assignment #2 “Jack and the Beanstalk” is a fairy tale designed to entertain children and teach them a moral story that they can relate to while growing up. I believe this story teaches children appropriate moral lessons and inappropriate ones. An appropriate lesson being not to be greedy and be pleased with what you have, and the inappropriate one being that if you do not think before your actions you will be rewarded, and that

Jack and the Beanstalk Reflective Memo When we were assigned this assignment I made a list of all the fairy tales I knew and which ones I liked the best. I then split them up and decided how I could make them all a revision tale. Some of them were hard to think of ways I could change, so started to pick them out of the pile and went from there. I finally got down to about three and I thought which one was going to be the best revision, and Jack and the Beanstalk was the shortest and was going to

regulations are constantly being imposed on them by living in a patriarchal society. Much like in Jack and the Beanstalk by Joseph Jacobs. Jack's mother, a nameless woman who is either referred to as the "poor widow " or "Jack's mother", is one of the two women in the story who has undoubtedly been astronomically reduced to this hysterical and emotional character whose sole purpose is to be a nurturer to Jack and fulfill her motherly duties at home while her young son is to get a job and ultimately

movies, books, and songs recounting the familiar stories as well as phrases alluding to them. The story of “Jack and the Beanstalk” is a perfect example of this. In many versions of the tale the tale Jack is seen as a kid who was trying to do what was best for his mother. In the original story by Joseph Jacobs there are more important moral lessons and the story is more complex. The story of “Jack and

Lang’s version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” in The Red Fairy Book (1890) introduces a new aspect to the protagonist’s origins to justify Jack’s actions and alter the moral to encourage risk-taking and entrepreneurialism. This new moral resonates with the audience of post-industrial revolution 19th century Scotland and reflects the capitalistic and virtuous values that parents would want to instill into their children at the time. Andrew Lang’s version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” in The Red Fairy Book

Century, “Jack and the Beanstalk” is an english fairy tale from about 1734. The Odyssey and “Jack and the Beanstalk” are from very different genres yet they both share common archetypes which serve the same purpose such as the hero, creature of nightmare, tree of life, and good versus evil. This supports the “one story” theory that says all stories have the same common human experience. The Odyssey written by Homer is about a king defeating monsters to get back to his homeland. “Jack and the Beanstalk”

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from the story “Jack and the Beanstalk”. In this story, Jack and his mother are poor all they have to live off is milk from their cow. When MIlky-white stops milking Jack is off to sell her. He trades the cow for some magical beans that grow into a beanstalk to find a man eating giant. Although Jack seems good, in reality he is not a true hero. Jack proves he is very untrustworthy in this story. On page 143 Jack accepts the trade with a stranger for beans. This illustrates Jack being untrustworthy

University. From the very first paragraph of McClary’s essay, I felt as though her ideas of sexual connotation in the story “Jack and the Beanstalk” were imposed on me. I felt this way because her language was very performative as she uses words such as “thrust”, “climax”, “erect”, and “penetrates” to illustrate the essence of the story, when the original story of “Jack and the Beanstalk” was intended for children who arguably should not be exposed to this language. For this reason, I believe that her methodology