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Rapunzel in Midlife

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This cartoon theorizes what  Rapunzel’s life would look like after she found her happy ending in the fairy tale. Rapunzel is a story about a girl who is trapped by the suppressive and ultimately overprotective love of her mother or mother figure. This is represented by the tower that Rapunzel is locked in, there is no way out other than climbing her long hair up to the top. Looking at this cartoon Rapunzel is shopping at the store which suggest she has already left the tower this is further proven by the fact that the caption says “Rapunzel in midlife” meaning she has already passed her teenage years. The story of Rapunzel is also a story about maturation and how Rapunzel had to disobey her mom in order to grow up, in the story she disobeys she mom by allowing a man enter her tower when her mother explicitly forbids anybody but her from entering. After disobeying her mother Rapunzel is forced to mature alone until the blinded prince finds her. The Rapunzel in this image is shown
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Different Bluebeard Versions

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The story of Bluebeard has many different retellings. The tales are similar in the fact that they all have a man with an ugly bluebeard marrying several women and almost all end up dead. Each story has a different telling of how he killed his wives. In one story, The Robber’s Bridegroom, Bluebeard is a cannibal who invites his bride to his home, then his band of criminals eats them. In another, Grimm story Bluebeard was a wealthy story  man who is feared because of his blue colored beard and the fact that all of his previous wives died mysteriously. He takes a new woman to be his bride, soon he has to leave for a trip, he tells her not to go in a single small room in the castle. The new wife’s curiosity got the better of her once she opened it she saw the dead bodies of his previous wives. She dropped the key in the bloody room and was unable to wipe off the blood. The wife knew she would die too if she showed him the key once she got back. The wife was correct, once bluebeard saw the
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Movie vs film: Hansel and Gretel

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The director of the MGM film of Hansel and Gretel made the classic fairy tale into a musical. This was a decision that made the original tale that is originally gruesome and added a more kid friendly tone to it as most kids would want to see their favorite fairy tale come to life in a movie. The director changed the story by making the evil stepmother become a worried and depressed mother. The film director did this so that kids would not believe that stepparents are necessarily always evil. The mother is worried that everyone in the family will starve due to the fact that the family is poor and has no money to buy food. This makes the mother extremely irritable when the children insult her cooking. She becomes so angry when the donkey eats their food that she sends them out into the forest that is when Hansel and Gretel find the witch's hut. In the story the Stepmother convinces her husband to abandon his kids in the forest in the hopes that they will die. The Stepmother does thi
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Little Red Cap Cartoon

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This social cartoon displays the confusion between someone who seems innocent and someone who seems threatening. In this cartoon the wolf, who in the story is normally the aggressor has shot little red cap, who in the story is normally seen as the innocent one. The wolf shot her because he claims she looked menacing. This matches the situation when Trayvon Martin was shot because he appeared suspicious to George Zimmerman. Trayvon looked as though he were breaking into a house he had his hood up and thus Zimmerman found him suspect and automatically assumed him to be an aggressor. Zimmerman was declared not guilty because should a person feel unsafe around another individual they are allowed to fire. Trayvon’s case was seen by the public as a racial conflict some claim that is Trayvon were white he would not have been shot. That begs the question if little red cap in the cartoon were another woodland animal instead would she have been shot? Prejudice against certain races is to be exp
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Cupid and Psyche V.S The Frog Prince

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The Frog King is about a beautiful princess who loves to play with a golden ball her father gave her. One day as she played with the ball she dropped it in a deep well and could not retrieve it. It was then that a talking frog came by and said he would retrieve the ball if the princess promised to love him, to let him dine with her, sleep with her, and take him everywhere she went. The princess agrees and when he brings her the golden ball she leaves him behind in the well, breaking their promise. The frog finds the castle and the king angry with his daughter for breaking her word demands she let him in and fulfill her promise. The frog turns into a prince and marries the princess, when it was time to leave the Prince’s servant Heinrich was so happy the bands around his heart broke. While the story of Cupid and Psyche is a tale of a gorgeous girl named Psyche, she was so beautiful that people started praising her as the new god of beauty instead of Venus. The angered Venus so much th
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Snow White Disney v.s Grimm

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Disney based most of their original movies on fairy tales written by the Grimm brothers. Movies like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and even Snow White. Between the Disney movie and the original fairy tale there are some key differences. The first is a more technical difference in which Disney had to turn a fairy tale into an hour and a half film. This meant that they had to add characters and such. This came in the form of personification of the different woodland animals, as well as giving certain characteristics to the dwarfs. Both things the fairy tale did not do, there was no distinction between the dwarfs, and the only animals mention are the owl, the raven, and the dove that attend Snow White’s funeral. Disney also deviates in how Snow White wakes up, in the story a prince happens to travel by the mountain and decides he wants to take the glass coffin back with him. The dwarfs eventually allow him to take snow white but while his servants are carrying the coffin one of them stu
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From Rags to Riches

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Before the late 1800’s, marriage was a way to connect rich families so that they may grow in power. It wasn’t very common for people of lower standing to marry into a rich family. This almost never happened, which is probably why the story Cinderella feels magical to those who read it in the past. Cinderella was able to marry a prince despite her social standing, which was very important back in the day. In this time and century it is more possible to marry into a rich family as social status is not as important anymore. This is because of the changes in the economy and society at the time. More and more people learned how to read, which used to be a staple quality of the upper class. As society advanced they needed people to do more complicated jobs, and thus they earned more money. As such the middle class was beginning to grow and as they did the gap between the poor and the rich lessened.  This caused the lines between social s tatus to become blurred as there was now a class t
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