On her eighteenth birthday, her curiosity wins, and she goes to see the outside world with a little help from her "prince," Flynn Rider. ... In Petrosinella, Petrosinella and her prince go to the prince's castle in the end. The prince's father approves of Petrosinella, and she then becomes the prince's wife, and they end up happily together. ... The Disney version is a little different. ... The plan was a little different in each version. ...

• Word Count: 1873
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To make this a much happier and romantic story, Disney makes sure that the Prince and Princess are in love with each other before they get married or kiss, by making them meet in the forest and harmlessly dance away, while singing quite a catchy little number ("I walked with you, once upon a dream-). This instills the idea that true love does exist regardless of what social class or fiscal status, since the Prince wanted to marry a peasant rather than a princess, and Aurora wanted to marry someone of unknown status rather than a prince. ... And of course there was the evil Maleficent, who Dis...

• Word Count: 1999
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When she leaves her slipper at the ball, she doesn't do anything but stay home and wait for the prince to find her. ... "Although Gretel does perform the decisive action at the end to save them from being eaten, for the first half of the story she is the frightened little sister, looking to her brother for comfort and help (Lieberman 252)." ... Sexton mentions Snow White's "doll eyes," Sleeping Beauty as a "little doll child," and Cinderella and her prince like "two dolls in a museum case." ... Good, poor, and pretty girls always win rich, handsome princes, never merely handsome, ...

• Word Count: 1284
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It was only until a little man who went by the name of Rumpelstiltzkin appeared that she was forced to compose herself. ... In this production, Rumpelstiltzkin lives in a squalid little cave that is centered with the type of cauldron we would generally see evil witches brewing their potions in. ... Her name is Emily and she is assumed to be the sister of the prince, though that is never made clear. ... Then as the tax collectors try to take Katie and her father's only grain, the Prince comes to the rescue. ... Yet, she does not realise he is the prince as he pretends to be a guard. ...

• Word Count: 1774
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

That is, until her Prince comes to rescue her. ... She did not let the royalty of the Prince intimidate her. ... She teaches the Prince about literature and moral values. ... The Prince charming and the magical discovery of his perfect mate. ... "Our version of Cinderella's magic comes from within, not from some little old lady with a wand" Andy Tennant (p633). ...

• Word Count: 1441
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

This will be done through the use of Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper written by Perrault, Snow White collected by the Grimm Brothers, Beauty and The Beast by Mme Le Prince De Beaumont, the use of Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth, and Susan Sellars" Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Women's Literature. ... A clear example of the emphasis put on beauty can be seen in Mme Le Prince De Beaument's Beauty and The Beast. Beauty is seen in the first paragraph of the story when Beaument introduces "Little Beauty" into the story, Beaument refers to "Little Beauty" as "So very Beautif...

• Word Count: 1445
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Sexton's "Cinderella" has a modern day, cynical twist, 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. ... There is a "standard canon representing catatonic females flat on their backs waiting to be brought to life by charming princes"(Zipes 25). Basically, a female is helpless until a prince comes and rescues her and they live happily ever after. ... In "Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper," Cinderella is "without equal in sweetness a...

• Word Count: 2226
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

She gives the little boy the book of fairy tales for Christmas. After his mother reads him "Sleeping Beauty"" out of the book, as a bedtime story, the little boy pretends "to be the Prince who braves the terrible thicket of thorns to enter the palace and kiss the Sleeping Beauty back to life."" ... This is fairy tale like as well because princes often fight off dragons in fairy tales. ... The family does not seem to realize the prison they have created, but the little boy does. ... They had a little boy, and they loved him very much."" ...

• Word Count: 1346
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

(Jeffries, 1999, pg. 71-72) Stories about a small, witty person who can outsmart a "giant" encompass stories like "David and Goliath" from the Bible, the "Parrot Tales", the Norse "Troll" stories, Grimm's "Brave Little Tailor," and in the folklore of Albaina, South America, India, and England (Jefferies, 1998, pg. 72). ... The cloak was stolen and the swan maiden was in servitude to the rogue until rescued by the prince. ... "The Oral Faery Tradition's teaching and its dimensions are not about little creatures flitting about with wings on their backs, as is so popularly misconstr...

• Word Count: 1506
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In The Little Mermaid by Hans Christen Andersen, the Little Mermaid gets herself into a situation in which she can kill the prince and his new bride in order for her to be turned back into a mermaid again. ... Instead Little Mermaid triumphs her fear and sacrifices her life for someone else's. ...

• Word Count: 2211
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School