Essays on Fairy Tale

Telling someone there’s a shocking amount of similarities between the classic children’s fairy tale Rapunzel by Brothers Grimm and Ray Bradbury’s sci-fi short story All Summer in a Day could be hard to believe, at first. For starters, Rapunzel was written in 1790, how similar…

Joselyn Riding is innocent in the killing of Harold B. Wolf. Even though her actions might not have not been ethically correct, they were suitable and fitting for the circumstances. Therefore Miss Riding is fully justified for doing harm to the wolf as he was…

Parents have always been able to teach their children about their perception of the world and society by introducing fairy tales to them. Fairy tales are filled with many symbols and themes pertaining to these specific world views and perceptions of society or gender. In…

Who Has The Power: Males or Females? In the 21st century, feminism is an emerging topic, which can be seen through various artists’ works. When examining fairy tales, one can see that gender roles are different. For example, Cinderella has been considered too passive as…

The Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Fitcher’s Bird,” provides a look into a tale of three parts: what men are capable of, role reversal, and good versus evil. Both primary characters in the story fall under either evil or good. For the sake of tradition, in…

The Eve of St. Agnes The classic fairy tale usually starts with a damsel in distress and needs her knight in shining armor to save the day. This same fairy tale usually ends in the most extravagant ways and two lovers live happily-ever-after in complete…

​For each legend like King Arthur, there lies somebody similarly as chivalrous in the sense by framing the saint and for Arthur that is Merlin. Merlin helps the narrative of King Arthur by seeking after his central goal to have Arthur considered and he does…

I have to admit, I have never been exposed to any version of The Little Mermaid, other than Disney’s film version of the fairytale. With that being said, reading Andersen’s version for the first time really opened my eyes to the hidden, covered-up messages that…

Chapters XXI–XXIII The episode with the fox requires a note on Saint-Exupéry’s use of the verb “tame.” In English, this word connotes domestication and subservience. But the French have two verbs that mean “to tame.” One “domestiquer” does, in fact, mean to make a wild…

Women are prominent figures in the narrative of fairy tales. The main characters of fairy tales, perhaps because females originally told them, are mostly women – both protagonists and antagonists. These characters have several recurring characteristics and attributes. In the Brothers Grimm’s fairy tales, the…