Tale Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Esteemed literary critic Vladimir Propp, in his essay "Fairy Tale Transformations," breaks down the essence of the fairy tale into a series of elements and functions, all linked inexorably to religious practices found in past traditions. According to Propp, fairy tales are an amalgam of the functions and roles of religion and culture in various societies; the tropes of fairy tales are reflections of these customs. These functions all exist in some form or another in the vast majority of fairy tales, allowing Propp to organize and codify the structures and natures of fairy tales. "We observe that the actors ...

Introduction

Literary critical theory is a complicated process - there are many different ways from which one can look at a story. The question remains, however, whether or not these readings are valid. Is the process of literary criticism a means of mental gymnastics, where theorists can force a reading into a text like a child pushing a square peg in a round hole? Looking at the various theorists who make up the most prominently observed members of the literary critical canon, it becomes clear that the act of reading itself is an interactive one, with the reader bringing just as much into the experience of reading as ...

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Aimee Bender’s fictions are symbolic of human emotions and struggles largely analogized and formed through fairy-tale representations. The Girl in the Flammable Skirt is by and large in the same vein and is a collection of short stories that seems to suggest a narration by a teenage girl. On reading The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, in each of the short stories, the one common moral and that is one of trauma interlocked with pittance. The story about a young girl who comes home to find her dad carrying a backpack which seems to resemble a bag made of stones is intriguing. In the ...

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The Knight’s Tale is one of the books in Geoffrey Chaucer’s story collection, The Canterbury Tales. The story is about two knights who are attracted to the same woman. The woman is a princess named Emily. Because the two knights had sworn to always support one another in all their endeavors, their attraction towards the same woman does not definitely go well. Chivalry was actually a system of duties, behaviors and rituals that every knight ought to follow if he desired to behave honorably. Religious devotion was one of the most adhered to virtue of chivalry by the knights. ...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales have been narrated in almost similar cultural times where a man was a symbol of authority whiles a woman a subject to a man. Amidst such cultural restrictions, there are women who showed extraordinary characters and managed to overcome the challenges that came with a male dominated society. Feminism has been described differently in the tales yet what mattered I show they responded to the challenges that they faced. There are those who ultimately became victims yet there are also those who used their feminism to win the hearts of men around them and hence gaining favour. In this paper, we shall ...

In Medieval Literature women tend to be depicted as having no agency. They have act in accordance to the man’s will and have events acted upon them. In many cases they are nothing more than props used to provide the hero a basis for a heroic act. This paper will look at two stories in which the power of women is on display and how the power is utilized in comparison to each other.
In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we have Guinevere, Lady Bertlak and Morgana Le Fay. Guinevere is the first women that we meet ...

- Describe a full entry in the OED
A complete entry in OED does not only provide the meaning of particular English words; instead, the entries are distinctively represented based on their value, the background or the history they have behind each phase of evolution that it took for such work do be developed. This is the reason why OED is often used when trying to decipher a particularly classic literature that uses old English terms or at some point symbolic phrases that are based on critical principles of semiotics.
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The wonderful and imaginative world of popular stories is not complete without magic. Whether it is the conventional western fairy tale Cinderella or the Arabian nights classic Alâ’ al-Dîn, magic lends an elusive touch that transforms the situation and makes dreams come true .In most popular fairytales magical creatures either cast spells on characters or run around transforming their lives. This is true in both western and Arabian mythical tales. Magic often construed as the ability to understand and manipulate the hidden forces of nature, runs rife in the thousand and one stories that form a part of the ...

The plot can be described as a curve or a triangle with the climax at the top. The rising part starts with the exposition that explains the situation before the start of actions, and consists of events that lead to the climax. The falling part shows events after the climax and ends up with a conclusion or resolution that ties all threads of the work. Conflict is the main part of the plot. It can happen between two people, human and nature, a person and the society or inside character’s mind (the inner conflict).
The narrator in The ...

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The basis of the “Beowulf” storyline finds its basis in a similar named warrior who lives to be the greatest combatant that ever lived. As the plot begins, Hrothgar, king of Denmark holds a celebration to his powerful and successful reign. However, terror marks the nights as Grendel a demon residing in the kingdom cannot tolerate noise and as a result, attacks the village whenever there is a celebration (Heaney 3). The wealthy mead-hall, christened Heorot, in which the celebrations are held, becomes a slaughterhouse as Grendel attacks and kills the Danish warriors. This rapidly decreases the ...

James Thurber’s, “The Life of Walter Mitty,” is one of his most famous and well-liked short stories (All-Story, 2012). On first read, it appears humorous and light. However, further consideration reveals a sad undertone to the tale, as Mitty is incapable of living up to his own fantasies of himself. The main theme of the story is that there are different versions of reality, for everyone. Thurber uses a variety of narrative techniques, such as symbolism, to highlight his chosen theme.

As George Cheatham says in his piece, The Secret Sin of Walter Mitty?: “Serious matters, we now know, bubble ...

In the 1970s and 1980s, even up to the early 1990s, African American film was experiencing a renaissance. In this time, following the Civil Rights Movement, African-American youth needed new heroes to follow, navigating this post-segregation period of lingering prejudice and the pressure for black Americans to "make good" on their chance to make something of themselves. The pressures of the inner city and gang and drug influences profoundly impacted the black community, and raised racial tensions even further between blacks and whites. However, throughout the years, these pressures were explored in black films of that era, presenting heroes for ...

1) When Michael Herr sought to “reveal” the Vietnam War, he knew that he had to take dramatic journalistic steps in order to do so. One of these was to write a novel about the war, Dispatches. In this book, he wrote about his own experiences during the war, making it a personal story about what he went through. This allows the reader to form a more intimate connection with the events that are being described. This elevates the information and provides an immediacy to it that makes the reader sit up and pay attention all the more.
The other method ...

The question of whether the narrator, in Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath is reliable or not, can be called due to the narrator and the Wife herself, being one and the same voice. The Wife of Bath and the prologue are amongst Chaucer’s most famous tales: the prologue tells the tale of ‘Alyson’ (or ‘Alys’) who claims to be an expert on marriage, having been married five times: “For, masters since I was twelve years of age … Oh husbands at church door have I had five.” (Chaucer) The ‘bragging’ tone of the narrator instantly calls into question ...

The epistolary novel and intimacy are often branded as synonymous terms. The Coquette initially aligns itself as simply an epistolary novel, as the controlled expression of the writers, and limited point of view, offered by the letter form, allows the two leading men to reveal their true thoughts, whether they are the suddenly untempered passions of Reverend Boyer or the duplicitous libertinism of Major Sanford, in a limited and controlled way. However, the often stark contrast between these written confessions and other characters’ perceptions of the writers gives the reader a sense of intimacy, and involvement, in spite of ...

The Journal of Hendrick Hamel is an account of the thirteen years he spent in Korea under the Joseon dynasty when the ship he was sailing on shipwrecked off the Jeju Island in the southern coast of Korea. Contrary to the name ‘Journal’ the account of Hamel is not a daily report of the years he spent but rather a report he wrote for his employers. His employers were the Dutch East India Company and he wrote this journal specifically to inform them of any possible trade opportunities. His journal was published in the Netherlands soon after his release and arrival. ...

The poem Annabel Lee is amongst the last published works of Edgar Allan Poe. The poem is about a young, attractive girl named Annabel Lee who was very beautiful. She and the poet fell in love, a love that was pure and intense. They had eyes only for each other and their love was sufficient for them, as the poet says, “And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.”
However, the angels from the heaven and the demons from the underworld were jealous of the true love that the poet and ...

M. Shelly "Frankenstein", E. Pauline Johnson " A Red Girl's Reasoning", E. Dickinson "poems 260, 269, 320, 340, 353, 479, 1096

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, E Pauline Johnson’s ‘A Red Girl’s Reasoning’ and Emily Dickinson’s poetry all explore what can be seen to be similar themes such as doomed love, unrequited passions and identity. Metaphor is also present in Dickinson’s poetry where the allegorical nature of her writings arouses feelings of intimate passion on a smaller yet no less powerful scale. One can observe an indelible link between all three female authors who were concerned with love ...

The movie is interesting and educative. It shows that the wicked shall not thrive. Blood in the movie symbolizes purity as her mother wished she should have a pure heart. The dwarves said she is pure and will be going to heal the land. Blood in most fairy tales symbolizes purity of the heart. A child learns that being pure at heart is a good thing. The apple in this fairy tale symbolizes poison. It also symbolizes deceptive behavior from the beginning where William plucks the apple for Snow White, but deceptively eats it. The wicked queen gives her the poisonous ...

NARRATOLOGY

Gerard Ganette was the great French literary theorist who is famous for his contribution in the field of narratology. His ‘Discours’ rightfully turned out to be a standard reference for the description of narrative theory due to the reason that it provides a model in relation to what systematic description, the writers can achieve. According to a preface of Gerard Ganette to the work of Kate Hamburger, with the title ‘The Logic of Literature’ that was published in the year 1986 in France,
“Fiction is not connected with narrative since one cannot study fictional narrative as narrative and as fiction at ...

Reviewing "The Yellow Wallpaper" through Plato and Christine de Pisan

Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the tale of a young married woman who suffers from what is presumed to be post-partum depression. Her physician husband decides to sequester her for a ‘rest cure’ in their summer home, which turns out to backfire when she starts to slowly go insane. The story takes the form of journal entries denoting her gradual slide into madness, as she hallucinates and forms paranoid thoughts about her husband and the outside world. The audience sees all of this through a first-person perspective that allows us to see inside the mind of the protagonist, ...

Charlotte Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” tells the tale of a young married woman who suffers from what is presumed to be post-partum depression. Her physician husband decides to sequester her for a ‘rest cure’ in their summer home, which turns out to backfire when she starts to slowly go insane. The story takes the form of journal entries denoting her gradual slide into madness, as she hallucinates and forms paranoid thoughts about her husband and the outside world. The audience sees all of this through a first-person perspective that allows us to see inside the mind of the protagonist, ...

Puma and Adidas have been are among the most renowned sports shoes manufacturers all over the world for more than half a century. These companies have supplied shoes to world-cup football teams, Olympic athletes, boxers, hip hop and rock stars to name but a few. However, these two companies might not have existed without the bitter sibling rivalry between two brothers; Adolf and Rudolf. This paper discusses the history of the two brothers and their company before splitting up, the characteristics of the two brothers and what resulted in the split up.
Adolf Dassler was a German soldier who took part ...