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    find yourself hooked, desiring the knowledge of what’s next. While watching this movie, two main literary themes became apparent. Disney's Tangled is the story of a stolen girl trapped in a castle with her captor as a mother. Throughout the story, Rapunzel wants nothing more but to leave her . Tangled’s plot employs many gender stereotypes and shows a large socio-economic divide. When Tangled is viewed under a Marxist lense you will notice the rich and the poor do not live harmoniously. For example

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    Tangled Stereotypes

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    SUMMARY The movie I chose to watch and evaluate is called Tangled. Tangled is a Disney movie and is fairly new; the movie was released in 2010. The plot of the story is based on a princess named Rapunzel who has been locked in a tower by her ‘mother’ for her whole life. Rapunzel has seventy-foot long, magical hair that heals people when she sings. She is about to turn eighteen and for her birthday, she wants to go outside to see the sky lanterns that the kingdom puts on every year for the lost princess

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    Cauldron of Story: From Rapunzel to Tangled The Cauldron of Story is, in simplistic terms, a metaphor used to symbolise the interconnection of all story. The concept is that every myth, fairy-tale and fantasy ever told is both contained in and drawn from the Cauldron. Therefore, all story created is a combination of the framework and themes of previously told tales, which have then been flavoured and adapted by the new teller. The tellers borrow the parts they want, then they sculpt and shape them

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    Tangled does a really good job making sure they don’t make Repunzel look weak and giving her a lot of power, but they totally forget about the male of the story Flynn Ryder. The Brothers Grimm on the other hand manage to have no masculine stereotypes for the prince but they make Repunzel look like a helpless lamb. In the original Brothers Grimm fairytale Repunzel just agrees to marry a total stranger and has no second thoughts about such a plan. In Tangled she ties him up and hits him over the head

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    How many little girls dream of being Snow White? How much money did Disney’s Tangled make? What little girl hasn’t dressed up as Cinderella or dreamed of meeting her very own prince charming? These popular fairy tales were created by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Their primary motivation when starting their collection of fairy tales was to preserve culture rather than entertain, but entertain is what they did. These fairy tales, and versions of them, have remained popular for a very long time, outlasting

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    the morals and lessons withheld in the tales can be used by people of any age in any point in time. “Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm is an example of one of these classic fairy tales whose story survives today. In the original version of this tale, Rapunzel is a young girl with magically long hair who is isolated away from the world in a tall tower after

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    Rapunzel is a well-known fairy tale, originally created by the Grimm Brothers, that has changed very much throughout the years. Starting out as a story of a girl locked in a tower, it has evolved into countless versions. The most common adaption of the Grimm Brothers’ story is the disney movie Tangled. This movie debuted in 2010 and was a hit. Overall, the Grimm Brothers story has become iconic for it’s history and also its adaptations. The story Rapunzel was published in 1812 for the first time

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    film Tangled we watch the adrenalized and emotional filled adventure of a blonde hair girl named Rapunzel, alongside a handsome bandit going by Flynn Rider. We are introduced to mother Gothel who uses a magic glowing flower to return to youth, but she is interrupted due to the king’s men looking for the flower to cure the queen. Once the flower is found and given to the mother to drink, Princess Rapunzel is born with golden blonde hair which we soon find out has the same abilities the flower once had

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    The Grimm Brothers: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

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    retold throughout generations. As a child I was told fairy tales as bedtime stories. I grew to love Disney movies which are popular for remaking fairytales such as Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. To this day I still enjoy remade fairy tales such as “Rapunzel” which was

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    Rapunzel Thesis

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    Once upon a time there was a girl locked in a witches tower as a result of her father’s poor bargaining skills. This girl’s name was Rapunzel after the herb her father had traded her for. Yes, her father had traded her for an herb, but only due to the fact that his pregnant wife said she would die without it. He had stolen the herb, the witch who owned the garden and saw that he was stealing and said he must give her the baby in exchange for stealing the herbs, and he agreed. The witch had been

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