Rapunzel Essay

The famous Nicholas Sparks novels “The Notebook” and “The Last Song” are based on non fictional events, while “Rapunzel” is a fictional short story fully based on fairytale. Although these are two different genres, all three pieces share a common story line and even the same themes. The story line, like any princess fairytale or romantic novel involves two people who fall in love but go through many obstacles to be together. However, in the end, they live happily ever after. The two themes that these

Rapunzel's attention, Cinderella and Rapunzel try to get away from the princes, and in the end the princes, Cinderella and Rapunzel all live happily ever after. The song Agony involves the princes trying to impress Cinderella and Rapunzel and the agony they face in doing so. For Ex Cinderella's prince puts sticky goo on the stairs of the castle so she won’t get away. Rapunzel's prince keeps singing outside her window to get her attention. Next, both Cinderella and Rapunzel try to ignore the princes because

In the essay “Fairy Tales and Modern Stories”, Bruno Bettelheim argues that fairy tales can provide children more reassurance than realistic stories. Bettelheim used examples like “The Little Engine that Could”,”The Swiss Family Robinson” and “Rapunzel” to show how realistic stories and fairy tales both affected children’s thinking. The author claims that modern stories don’t compare to fairy tales, because they can’t provide an outlet for children to work through their problems and emotions. Bettelheim

Transformation of Fairy Tales: Typical to Tragic Royalty, magic, and happily ever after; all elements of the perfect fairy tale. A traditional fairy tale holds the usual theme of a damsel in distress, who is saved from her terrible situation by the love of a prince, and eventually ending happily in everyone’s favor. Yet, it cannot be a fairy tale without twists, such as evil-step mothers, horrid witches, etc. Traditional fairy tales overcome these hardships, and many may not consider one that ends

la are retellings of the same plot. In both Prunella and Rapunzel a recurring theme was stealing. In Prunella, Prunella stole a prune every single day for school. She stole so many prunes that people started calling her “Prunella”. “Rapunzel” was a bit different. In the story, while Rapunzel’s mother was pregnant she had a craving for a cabbage that grew in a old woman's garden. Her husband stole the cabbage for the his pregnant wife. In both stories, the old woman turned out to be an evil witch

antagonist of this movie who kidnaps a newborn Rapunzel in the middle of the night because her hair has the magical qualities of a flower which used to keep Mother Gothel young. Rapunzel inherited these powers by her mother drinking the flower mashed into a liquid while she was pregnant with Rapunzel. To add onto kidnapping Rapunzel, Mother Gothel also masquerades as Rapunzel’s mother for her whole life after kidnapping her. She pretends to care for Rapunzel, but is really only keeping her for her powers

Throughout the movie Tangled blue is a very prominent colour. There are two specific parts in the movie that are associated with this colour. Blue is a colour that can signify many different feelings – positive or negative – such as loyalty, trust, ambition, emotionally unstable, deceitful manipulative, controlling, etc. Flynn Rider, or Eugene Fitzherbert, is one of the important blue symbols in the movie. As you can see in the picture when Flynn is wearing a blue vest-like shirt. This was a symbol

The Hidden Gender Stereotypes in the Animations The Little Mermaid and Tangled Erlina EKAWATI ABSTRACT After the success of the feminist movement in the early 1960s, gender stereotypes are considered as not a big issue anymore. Many people tried to break gender stereotypes especially in mass media. However, it is undeniable that gender stereotypes are still imprinted because people have been fed by gender stereotypes from the show that they watch since they are young. It is shown in two animation

respective heroine, Snow White in Snow White, and Rapunzel in Tangled. Snow White as Disney’s first princess is simple. Her high pitched voice allows for a feeling on innocence and naivety. Characterized in her opening song, “I’m Wishing,” Snow

enjoy the view of the garden next door, cared by a fearsome sorceress. Then, the story develops in a deep forest, where the sorceress locked Rapunzel in a top of a high tower, without any entrance, just one window. Plot: A couple lived next to the delightful witch’s garden. The woman, who was expecting a baby, had an uncontrollable desires to eat a Rapunzel salad from the garden of her neighbor witch, “Frau Gothel”, and made her husband get the plant for her. The sorceress caught the attentive husband