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    Fairy Tale’s Favorable Information Fairy tales are important due to the ability to enhance a child’s imagination and artistic intellect. On a deeper note, however, they allow for the development of critical thinking skills, which, in turn, allow for children to make logical decisions based on the choices that the characters make within the tale. They see the actions that the characters engage in and, as a result, the consequences that follow, which allows them to analyze what happened and why. In

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    Essay About Fairy Tales

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    I am fond of fairy tales. In fact, my night would not be complete without my mother reading me a fairy tale story before going to sleep. One of my favorite fairy tale stories, for instance, is the story of Aladdin. As a child, it amazes me to think that I have a genie friend who can give me anything I want. I was thinking about wishing for a castle full of chocolates and goodies and imagine myself riding that magic carpet while sneaking up on the houses of my friends. Fairy tales gave me wonderful

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    Old Fairy Tales Analysis

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    The fairy tales of old often have a sparse and often vague approach when it comes to characterization. This problem was more than likely brought about due to how these tales were told to children and how these stories more than likely changed over time, via word of mouth. Yet, as we have progressed and have begun a movement to novelize nearly everything in our society, we have come across the predicament of how these classic caricatures must be brought into modern society. One of the biggest companies

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    Fairy tales is the term also used to describe something adored with unusual happiness, like “fairy tale ending” a happing ending or “fairy tale romance”, though not all fairy tale as a happy ending. A fairy tales is a type of short story that consistently features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy Tale Fairy tales may be acclaimed from other folk narratives such as

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    In a wide range of fairy tales around the world, there had been stereotyped representations of both the male and female characters in the stories. The different archetypes can be identified in all the traditional fairy tales, as the elements involved inside are very similar towards each other. An identification of a stereotype representation across the fairy-tales include a Prince saving the day, which is a stereotype of a male where they bring joy to the Princess and have a happy ever after with

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    important. The villains in fairy tales use their power badly. This study has analyzed the meaning of oppressive power that reflects role played by characters. The oppressive power of the villain presented in Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel. The reader learns how the villain uses oppressive power and study the behavior of the character in the fairy tales. Oppression is always base on the selfishness of human. There is violence involves in the three fairy tales among oppressive power and

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    Today's fairy tales as we know are all based on being children friendly; fairy tales such as “Aladdin”, “Mulan”, “Sleeping beauty”, “Rumpelstiltskin”, and others were remastered to be accepted by today's society. More than half of the remastered fairy tales were done by Disney the most renowned carton film animation company in the world, famous for re-making old folk stories from all around the world and putting a friendlier twist to the stories, but a dark shadow looms beneath all the re-made stories

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    Fairy tales have been embedded into our culture and date back before recorded times, they provide a source of entertainment and imagination for children. Despite today’s fairy tales having positive moral intentions they have been adapted from earlier versions which often can be very different and much more sinister. The fairy tale “Sun, Moon, and Talia” by Giambattista Basile formed the basis for the more commonly known Disney interpretation called the “Sleeping Beauty” however they are vastly different

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    Gender Stereotypes in Fairy Tales

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    Fairy Tales have been around for generations and generations. Our parents have told us these stories and we will eventually pass them down to ours. In this time of age the most common fairytales are Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and The Beast and many more. Children idolize their favorite character and pretend to be them by mimicking everything they do in the stories. The character’s behavior is what is viewed as appropriate in society. These fairy tales show a girl and a boy fall

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    Fairy tales are full of tropes and stereotypes that exist from story to story, one of the main ones being the “happily ever after” ending. Most fairy tales, especially the traditional Perrault or Grimm versions, fall prey to this trope where the main goal is for the princess to find her prince, get married, and live happily ever after. Many critics, particularly feminist critics, find this trope to be problematic because of the extreme emphasis placed on marriage as women’s main, if not only, objective

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