Ms. Cinderella Sexton (An Analysis of Anne Sexton's poetic transformation of the Brothers Grimm's Cinderella) Ann Sexton's poetic transformation of Cinderella is a dark, comic version of the popular tale. In it, she combines the traditional Brothers Grimm tale with elements of modern society. Se...
Once Upon a Time, fairy tales weren't written for children... In spite of their name, the popular fairy tales usually have very little to do with fairies. We took the name from the French "contes des fee", and the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century do feature far more fairies than the tales which are best-known today. The Grimm brothers collected the folk tales of the German people to make up their volume, but fairy tales are more than just folk tales. The German term for them is "Mãrchen", a word for which there is no satisfactory English equivalent - it is ...
Once upon a time there was a magical world, where everything was perfect and everybody was happy and it was known as the land of Fairytales. Is this a realistic view of the world? This is the view Fairytales give the reader and it is evident that childhood tales help to shape the listener or reade...
