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    Fairy tales have an enormous impact on the world we live in. They are used as tools to teach children life lessons in such a way that doesn’t scare them, but does prepare them for the harsh realities of the world. We have many such examples in our own lives, it seems only natural that the wizarding world would have their own. One interesting thing about wizarding fairy tales is that unlike their muggle counterparts, magic is a good force. While good magic does exist in muggle fairy tales, for instance

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    “surprising and puzzling” (Carlin, 2017:771) nature of the Monster’s ‘three tales’ in the novel are vital in their conveyance of the complex and sometimes cruel realities of life – or as the Monster declares, the fact that “Stories don’t always have happy endings” (144). The first tale begins like a conventional fairy-tale, employing the tropes of an ‘evil witch’ and the ‘good prince’. When the Monster has told the first tale, like Conor, we are led to believe that the Queen was punished by the

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    Tragic Tale of Three Sisters On a Friday night with the wind gently blowing, one steps into the Stilwell Theater and must ask an usher to find one’s seat. After finding the seat on stage-right at the end of the row, this audience member settles in for an unforgettable Kennesaw State University production. As the house lights dim, 2017 is but a distant memory as the stage illuminates and the audience travels across the ocean and back in time to Russia during the late 1800’s. The play, Three Sisters

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    Fairy tales read to young children not only served as a form of entertainment for the child, but they also taught children the difference between what is good and what is bad. The Three Little Pigs is a prime example of the morals and lessons that children were taught while reading a fairy tale. The fact that the tale is equipped with adventure and the ability for animals to talk causes children to immerse in the text while acknowledging the consequences of laziness of the first two little pigs

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    is common in the tales of different peoples? And how do they differ? I have had many questions and wanted to find the answers. My research is devoted to analysis and comparison of the two tales about animals. The first one is the Russian folk tale "The wolf and the goat" and other one is the English folk tale "The wolf and the three kittens". Comparison began with an introduction to the history of fairy tales: the definition of the genre, the collection and study of fairy tales, with their classification

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    The Guiding Three (Three favorite characters from Chaucer’s General Prologue) There are often times in your life where you look up to some certain people. Normally these people are called your role models. Kids growing up have all different sorts of role models, it can range from athletes, to singers, to just everyday people in their life. Always looking up to these people, you begin to adapt to their ways and aspire to be like them. There are a ton of characters in Chaucer’s story of Canterbury

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    Dr Kelly Flanagan in head article “3 Ways Frozen Subverts the Usual Fairy Tale Rules” mentions that “You can’t marry away from your loneliness. Life is not primarily about finding a man. Women can be kingdom builders, too. All by themselves.” However this statement contradicts the disney fairy tale Cinderella as both of her parents die and she does marry because of loneliness. This dissertation will look further in to this article as it serves a purpose towards the research being gathered. Disney

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    The 1800’s was a century of change. Medicine was advancing, the effects of the Enlightenment were still underway, and a new age of exploration occurred as those of Europe began to extend their hands across the world towards America. During these times the common folk changed and adapted many of their ideals, and suffered many hardships and heartaches. In this period, a man of Normandy named Gustave Flaubert caught many of these hardships within his writings. With words, thoughts, and crafted phrases

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    strange. Flaubert uses human emotions in a story that is incredibly simple in both word and tale to tell the reader of a woman who does not live a particularly exciting or happy life. Through this short story, Flaubert has given the reader a character that is simple but loving, strange yet human, and easily attached to things. Through his use of realism and a firm grasp on human emotions Flaubert has crafted a tale that is unlike any other. Felicite is a simple character. She does not have an education

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    Taneka .D.G. Evelyn ENG-212-042 Dec.12th, 2011   The realist period was a time of the nineteenth century in which authors, artists and other people in literature provided in-depth accounts of events that occurred during that time period. In Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart,” he explored the lives of two fictional women of different classes (middle and lower) during the realist period. Through characters like Madame Aubain, a rich woman and Felicite, her poor, gentle maid, he provided the reader

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