... among others have been cultural constants throughout history. As such they have had a tendency to creep into aspects of popular culture. Stories serve as a cultural medium to transfer values, ideas, and expectations of a society to a younger generation, and the Grimm Brothers stories such The Frog Prince, The Ungrateful Son, and, Cinderella all perform this function. In The Frog Prince such social aspects ... him, his family in particular, have proper courtly manners of which maintaining ones word would be part of. The Kings pressuring of his daughter also portrays the family relationsh...

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... , Sierra's "Cinderella or the little Glass slipper" is written by a French author and is inspired by the Disney Version, and Offodile's "The Orphan Girl" comes from a Nigerian fairy tale. These stories have changed over time because of the culture of each individual writer. In some cases, "storytellers, upon hearing the defective versions, correct it in the retelling" (Goldberg 95). These three ... her to break the gourd when she gets home and "the house is filled with all sorts of riches" (Offodile 192). Her father is overjoyed but Chika's stepmother is not happy" (Offodile 6 192), so s...

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... versions of the same story over time one can make connections to society's values and the evens of the time period. One can also compare stories within the same time period to achieve different viewpoints within the society itself. Looking at the story of beauty and the beast, one can use ... and Barbara G. Walker's Ugly and the Beast. Throughout time the fundamental ideas of the story remain the same. A selfless and devoted daughter willingly sacrifices herself for her father. Although the beauty character has sisters who are sad to see her go to an almost certain death in the clutche...

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... by almost 1,000 years. It provides the bone structure for the Cinderella stories to come. Yeh-Shen introduces the central theme of the evil step-mother taking preference for her ugly biological daughter over her beautiful step-daughter, and after considerable conflict, the handsome prince locating his mystery love by ... of the story have this skeleton structure but include different variables such as: Where is the father figure?; What happened to the original wife and mother?; What happens to the neglected daughter throughout the story?; By what means is the Cinderella able to go to th...

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... to rise above their problems in the world. "The Little Mermaid," "The Match Girl," and "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" are prime examples of Andersen's stories whose characters overcome the hardships in their lives. All of the main characters in these tales eventually make it to "heaven," as Andersen would define it in ... loves him. Sadly the mermaid dies with a broken heart and unrequited love. The only saving grace is that she becomes a "daughter of air," after another deal is made. By being a "daughter of air," she is allowed to help others, by doing good deeds for the next three hundre...

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... as men, at every age and in every class. Gretel, not Hansel, defeated the witch; and for every clever youngster son there was a youngster daughter equally resourceful. The contrast continued in maturity, when women were often more powerful than men. Real help for the hero or heroine came most often ... under restrictive conditions. Two fairytales that offer this slightly alternative view of women are Hansel and Gretel and Beauty and the Beast. In both these stories the heroine doesn't fit into the traditional mould, and are actually fairytales that have survived through the years, not mo...

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... in her own home and force her life to be dreadful. Yet, both versions differ significantly when it comes to the content of the stories. The Brothers Grimm version depicts Cinderella as a young, nave, vulnerable woman who succumbs to her stepmothers every request and absorbs harsh punishment ... who becomes a princess (Everafter a Cinderella Story, 2010). Another difference in the Brothers Grimm story is that Cinderellas father is still alive and does nothing to defend his daughter from the cruel treatment perpetrated on her by her stepfamily. The Brothers Grim tale is more of the fairy ...

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... make women look dumb. Angela Carter put a different twist to her story "The Bloody Chamber". In it the mother, a woman, comes and rescues the daughter from the man at the end of the story. In the story of "Hansel and Gretel", Gretel can be seen as one example of an active, resourceful ... only when there isn't a man there to be resourceful for them. The imagery of women as dolls is seen throughout Anne Sexton's poems as well as Angela Carter's stories. Sexton mentions Snow White's "doll eyes," Sleeping Beauty as a "little doll child," and Cinderella and her prince like "two dolls in a mu...

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... and which has become the most well-known version of the tale. The dead mother (and Cinderella's ashes imply mourning) who watches over her daughter disappears. There are also similarities between the Cinderella story and "Donkeyskin "; there are many tales in which the heroine is a servant who ... In "Donkeyskin" however, the heroine is not maltreated by her stepmother, but runs away from home to escape the incestuous intentions of her own father, which is no doubt why the story is little-known today. Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty, or Briar Rose in the Grimms' telling, endures ... ap...

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there really such a thing as a feminist fairy tale? Fairy tales are ancient stories that entertain the masses and teach morals to children. They are considered oral traditions that are passed down through the centuries as a tool to ... the other side of the spectrum. They start to think that men are the only option and heterosexuality is the only choice. In the world of diversity these stories are defiantly out dated, the options one has in loving someone is defiantly not a one gender decision. If Beauty and the beast is read in a lesbian point ... how different Beauty really is for being in...

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... ; which is also within a story itself. And the fact that Sharazad is a female who is non-Muslim but so smart as to keep inventing these stories so that her life will be spared of the king Shahrayar. The story starts of with a layout of setting and introduction of characters. We don't get ... and in which many lose their daughters to the lustful king, until the day comes when there are not many left. Shehrezade, the viziers own daughter implores her father to marry her to the king. After much refusal and with a heavy heart the vizier agrees and marries Sherezade to king Shahrayar. Sherezad...

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... accustomed to. Some examples are Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast and the Disney movie, The Lion King just to name a few. Each of these stories has similarities that relate to the touching story of Jane Eyre, a story about learning about oneself and getting through hardships in life. Cinderella tells a ... story of a young girl who has to live with her evil step-mom and her wicked step-sisters when her beloved father dies. She is treated like she's dirt and garbage and isn't really considering part of the family. Just some girl they control and treat her like a ... she married a poor ma...

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... or so of these tales and published his findings in "Morphology of the Folk-tale" in 1928. He decided that despite cosmetic differences, all these stories had a similar underlying structure and common elements. They were all about the same situations and struggles and they all had the same basic or "stock ... helper, "The Helper", who aids the hero, "The Princess", who is the reward for the hero and is the villains goal also and finally "Her Father", who rewards the hero. In the film "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon", "The Hero" is easily identified as Li Mu Bai, a famous Chinese warrior. "...

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... fall in love with the colors that were as white as snow, red as blood, and black as the ebony window frame. Luckily, she had a beautiful daughter with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony (Tatar 83). Michelle Rahn explains in her article, Symbolism in ... prince. In the Brother's Grimm version of the fairy tale, Cinderella requests one thing from her father, that being the first branch that brushes against his hat when he is on his journey. As promised, her father came back with a branch from a hazel bush and gave it to Cinderella. Cinderella planted th...

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The traditional story of Cinderella begins with a beautiful, motherless young girl name Cinderella whose father gets married for the second time. His new wife is an arrogant and proud widow who has two daughters of her own, both vain ... this she made her wash dishes, scrub floors, and wait on her own daughters. She gave Cinderella a straw bed in the loft to sleep upon, while her daughter's slept in fine rooms and upon soft beds. The sisters wore fine gowns, while Cinderella was only allowed to wear shabby clothes, but even with that she still ... was a hundred times more beautiful then her ...

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... a lot of versions of Cinderella. After reading the Brothers Grim version of Cinderella and viewing the film version of it, Everafter, one can distinguish definite differences between these two similar stories. Both versions tell of a young maiden whose mother died when she was young and is then tormented by her stepmother and her two stepsisters who enslave her in her own ... home and force her to sleep among the fireplace. In Brothers story Cinderella's father is still living and does nothing to protect his daughter from the cruel teratment done by her stepfamily. Cinderella's only com...

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... all men equal" (9). In addition to the protagonist, the different settings that the authors used to build up the story were very attractive. At the beginning of the story, the father went to our first setting to search for the "right" godfather for his thirteenth son: The main highway. Who would have thought he was going to find those powerful beings ... another setting since the whole world is everywhere we are, and it is not too specific. I consider our next two settings to be the rooms where the king and his daughter were lying sick in their respective beds: "[ . . . ] but when he ca...

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