Essays on Stepmother

Psychology is a unique science that deals with human personal and social problems. This field of study has a lot of different directions. In order to have the scientific findings organized in a logical manner, there are different themed psychological scientific journals that publish articles on relevant topics. This paper examines two articles from different journals. The first article is «Gender typing in stepmothers: A phenomenological analysis» by Gosselin, J., & Rousseau, K. (2012) published in Qualitative Research Journal. The second article is «Parenting and academic socialization as they relate to school readiness: The roles of ethnicity and family income» ...

The article by Maria Tatar goes on to delve deep into the complexities of the popular fairy tale, Cinderella. The author of the piece engages in tracing the history of the fairy tale. She opines that there have been many interpolations and transformations in the narrative and content of the story based on cultural difference and timeline in history of literature. To substantiate her point, Tatar cites the versions of the fairy tale popularized in Germany, Indonesia, Japan and some other countries where the stepsisters of the central female character of the fairy tale meet very grave destinies by ...

Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (1995) is as creative just like it is ironical if the current contemporary efforts around the globe are put into context. The Dystopian perception that dominates the novel makes it attractive to present and future readers. Several themes emerge from the story through prominent characters such as Lauren and Mrs. Sims. This essay offers analysis of various topics in the novel while laying emphasis on how the lack of effective community guidance and poor leadership can break or make a state. The essay delves into how poor leadership can erode past gains in ...

Generally, the term “gender role” refers to the acceptable or desirable behavior patterns determined by the person’s sex. These patterns are usually based on common perceptions of masculinity and femininity. For the last hundred years, the human’s attitude towards gender roles of women has significantly changed, and these changes have manifested themselves in mass culture as well. The same affected Disney movies, however, in a less degree. The aim of this paper is to discuss the change of women gender roles through the example of Snow White and Tiana from Disney movies Snow White and the Seven ...

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Bella and Luke – Chapter 1: Bella p.5 Bella and Luke – Chapter 2: Luke p.6 Bella and Luke – Chapter 3: Bella and Luke pp.7-9 Explanation of plot summary and choices pp.10-12 Introduction For this assignment I have chosen topic number 2; “Write your own version of the Cinderella story, structuring your re-telling around the element(s) of the story that seem most significant or interesting to you. You can tell the story from the point of view of one of the characters or use third person narration. Think carefully about what specific aspects of the story you decide to emphasise ...

Fairytales generally offer children a very limited choice of heroes and villains, and they cast men and women in stereotyped roles, because they are meant to socialize children according to the values of the society and according to their expected gender roles. Two feminine characters found in many fairytales are the wicked stepmother and the young and beautiful heroine, who is often a princess. In such fairytales as Grimm brothers’ “Snow White”, “Cinderella” and “Mother Holle”, the stepmother is an intruder who occupies the role of the good mother and persecutes the young, beautiful and kind heroine. She is ...

Zora, the author of Dust Trucks on a Road, was born in 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama and died in 1960. She was regarded as one of the best and contemporary American novelists, anthropologists, and folklorists of the Harlem Renaissance (Meisenhelder, n.p). While she was three, her family moved to Eatonville Florida, one of the first all-black towns to be established in the United States. This was a place where the blacks existed independently and as they desired. Due to this, Zora often referred to it as her birthplace. The death of her mother was the beginning of her misery ...

All children grow up in the magical world of fairy tales that have been so gripping and inspiring. Most of the legends are about challenges and tough times plus how the main character deals with injustices in their lives. Although the primary motive behind telling those fairy tales is pure entertainment for children, the tales are well known as a literary genre. Thus, there is a lot more to those fairy tales as they have a lot to offer to people of all age groups. The setting of the storyline sis simple in nature and magical. The characters are ...

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The research concentrated on developing a case plan for a neglected child. The introduction helps in determining pointers of child abuse or neglect in the community, as well as, the effects of child abuse or neglect on the child. Finally, the research was also interested in determining interventions for child abuse and neglect, how they could be applied in different ways and their effects on the children. A case plan involved members of a family in the Broward County in Florida. The family was selected after pre-qualification determining that the family was ...

The paper discusses the elements of the two tales of Cinderella. A comparison between the two elements will be discussed so that the common elements could emerge out from the tales. The two versions that will compare in this paper are “The Twelve Months” and “Tam and Cam (Vietnam)”. There were many common elements in two tales and some of them are discussed in the paper. Common elements are stepchildren, love and hatred and inclusive of birds in the tales. There were two step sisters named Helen and Marouckla in the first tale. Helen was her real child, and ...

It is expected that, at one point in our lives, we have read the story of Cinderella or Hamlet or even both. Cinderella is a common bedtime story for children, most especially for the girls, while Hamlet is a favorite subject of literary reading for most students in their literature classes. Due to the popularity of both these stories, they have been adapted in movies and plays for a lot of times already. Different plot variations or twists have also been already made to both stories to adapt to the ever changing audience considering that these stories have already ...

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The main theme in Manchurian candidate (1976) is the scion of the political dynasty in America (Laurence Harvey) as it is easily evidenced by the war in Korea. In contrast, the thematic display of Manchurian candidate (2004) is the political uncertainty in the current century. As such, political and corporate power has significant influence in the politics of the country, which contributes towards the attainment of the political instability. In both films, there is clear evidencing of the political relevance in the country, which is a significant factor of consideration in determination of ...

In this life each day comes with its ups and downs. Some of the obstacles we meet in life are short lived while others tend to take a good part of our life. Personally, I have had my share of obstacles some short-term while others are long term. Unto date my greatest obstacle has been my stepmother. She got married by my father after a disturbing divorce that left her serving twenty years in prison and the entire family was left in shreds. Like a thorn in the fresh my step mother was always on my case and puffed up any small ...

1. The constitution provides certain rights and freedoms that allow citizens to enjoy liberty. The First Amendment to the Tenth Amendments of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights have civil liberties. Civil liberty refers to the rights and freedoms in the constitution for speech and action, which are for the good of the community and against government actions that affect personal space and decisions. One of the basic civil liberties is the right to freedom of religion. This freedom allows no person to be denied the right to choose, form, or participate in a religion or religious ...

The survival of the modern economy depends on a neverending stream of consumption. This is why cars do not last as long as they used to, it is why the cost of a new television is not significantly higher than the cost of television repair, and it is why restaurants continue to proliferate across the map, hopping from retail corner to retail corner to chase families down before they can get home and cook their own meals. This trend began in the wake of the Great Depression; while it was largely the mobilization of industry for World War II that brought ...

At the point when a youthful lady named Meryem (Özgü Namal) was assaulted, her town custom obliges that she was murdered in place for the disrespect to be erased from her crew. A junior man named Cemal (Murat Han), the child of the town pioneer, is given the undertaking yet ultimately he has questions. The pair goes on the run, emulated close behind by nearby hooligans expectation on murdering the young lady. Fortunately enough, Cemal and Meryem get together with an appealing man named Irfan, an ex-college educator who is leaving on a cruising outing, and needs a group. Appears Irfan tries ...

The Lynsay Sand’s Love is blind is a unique story than other love stories as it shows that love doesn’t happen all the time among the beautiful couples or among the strong and perfect people it can be among two normal and even ugly people can have love emotions. Secondly this world is also full of such examples, where people live happily if they have compatibility rather than only looks make people happy. So is the point of the writer who has very beautifully explained in the form of a story. Let’s see the summary in which the ...

Political Wrangles

At the start of the tale, Genji was evicted out of the empire by his father – the Japan’s Emperor Kiristubo. The author holds that the eviction was due to the political wrangles that riddled the nation. He then decided to name Minamoto as a result of demoting from the heirs. This derailed Genji’s political ambitions and, equally, forces him to become an officer in empirical duties. The ascension of Genji’s half-brother to power after the death of his father also depicted the political hiccups of the tale. The fact that his mother, Kokiden, collaborated with the ...

Introduction

Cinderella is a story that resonates with most people in one way or another within the course of their lifetime. This is because the story explores a fable-like element of unexpected success amidst oppression and unfair treatment (Orenstein 50). The story, a European folk tale, is about a beautiful young girl, Cinderella, who lives in a household where she gets mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. She does not get new thinks such as items of clothing and other necessities and has to rely on “hand-me-downs” from her siblings. To add to her misery, she is subjected to hard labor and mistreated. However, her ...

Literature is a powerful tool that has the ability to take readers to different worlds and different eras. Literature has a way to change readers’ perspectives and teach valuable lessons. From the beginning of time the world has known stories. As time passed stories developed into pieces of literature that have lived for thousands of years, and the most recognizable of that literature that has survived this long will continue to flourish readers’ imagination. Literature has the power to access one of the greatest forms of relaxation and stress relief; it has the power to help readers escape. Most children have ...

When the grisly murder of a wealthy businessman and his wife in their own home in an affluent neighborhood made the news, the media and the people couldn’t just keep quiet and pretend an air of indifference. As the investigation progressed, new discoveries got the people’s attention hooked, more so when the daughter of the diseased was arrested and was accused if committing the crime. Lizzie Borden, daughter to Andrew Borden, was suspected of killing her own father and stepmother in their own home by striking them with an axe on their head. The crime occurred on ...

Thesis statement

Cinderella fairy tales have evolved with time, incorporating plot elements in different ways. Introduction The ancient Cinderella tales have evolved to a complex state nowadays. The evolution has brought about changes in the modern literature, leading to the depiction of a very different Cinderella from that depicted in the old untrue tales. These changes are in the character portrayed by Cinderella, point of view, theme, and the setting (Parsons 135).

Character

‘The politically correct Cinderella’, ‘a feminist view’, and ‘America’s Cinderella’ versions of tales differ in how they present the character of Cinderella (Parsons 135). However, Cinderella in all the ...

English: Essay

The three works collected for this midterm essay are “The Thousand and One Night” from Arabian literature, “The Bhagavad-Gita” from Indian literature, and “Tale of Gengi” from Japanese literature. Finding out the similarities among the three literature works from three different cultures is an interesting subject. In this essay, an effort will be made to identify the aspects found in the literature of the present era and relevant to today’s society. “The Thousand and One Night” is a collection of stories compiled in Arabic and translated into many other languages during the golden age of Islam. The stories ...

Introduction: My favorite hobbies are gaming, movies, animals/pets. I am at MSU to study social work. I am in the MSW program. One thing that I’d like others to know about me is that I love animals of all kind. I have a Russian Tortoise, three freshwater aquariums. I also have 2 min pins or miniature pinchers which are a cross between a German pinscher Italian greyhound and dachshund. The Monster Under My Bed: The monster that lives under my bed is about two feet tall and looks like a short, squat goblin with bat wings that fold against its back. ...

While there is no all around acknowledged meaning of a fairy tale, for the most part they are stories of charm and entertainment. Fairy stories are some piece of ordinary lives, and are frequently used to show youngsters standards. Individuals utilize fairy tales to show adolescent youngsters ethics a fable is ordinarily a tale about something that might not typically happen in genuine living, for example, creatures that can converse with people. A fable will dependably end cheerfully with the legend or courageous woman living joyfully ever after. The careful meaning of "children's story" has been a matter of civil argument for quite a ...

This is a 2003 South Korean film in form of a psychological horror. It was written and directed by Kim Ji-woon. This movie was as a result of a folktale entitled ‘Janghwa Hongryeon’ which was done by Joseon Dynasty. This folktale by Joseon has been adapted to several films, including that of ‘a tale of two sisters’. It is basically on two sisters who faced a lot of problems and challenges. This is because after returning from the hospital, they experience several disturbing events which involve them and their step mother. The superb acting of this movie has seen it win a price of the best ...

The Brothers Grimm are responsible for some of the most famous fairy tales that are still read to children to this day. Although many of the fairy tales have been sanitized and changed for today’s children, the original stories are still masterworks of literature, often referenced and alluded to in other pieces of fiction and nonfiction. In “Rapunzel,” “Hans and Gretel,” and “The Little Peasant,” the Brothers Grimm utilize different types of symbolism, but regardless of the type and purpose of the symbolism, they use symbols that are easily grasped by the reader and serve to further the ...

In his memoir A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah recounts his time as a child soldier in the government army of Sierra Leone, when he was just thirteen years old. Now living in the United States, he looks back on his experiences at the age of twenty-six and recalls the intense suffering he endured during this war, including hunger and extreme privation, witnessing the torture and murder of many innocent civilians, and learning to kill and torture himself. In the end, he became as brutal and dehumanized as the people who had destroyed his family and home. His main themes ...

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The Cinderella story has been translated to over 500 different versions. This literature paper will, however, focus on three versions and attempt to use them as a basis of comparison. The comparison seeks to determine how these three versions attempt show that low circumstances can raise to good fortune. The three versions are "A Chinese "Cinderella" by Ch'eng-shih, "Cinderella" by Perrault and "Ashputtle" by the Grimms. Folks and fairy tales are the stories that are told to children. Children around the world get familiar with them mostly from infancy to their 2nd grade. They are used to entertain, educate about ...

In “Cinderella, Not So Morally Superior,” author Elisabeth Pantaja takes the position that Cinderella is not superior to the step-sisters, as readers often think. Additionally, so takes the position that Cinderella is not motherless in the story.

Summary

As a child or an adult just watching Cinderella for entertainment, at first glance, without a thought, it does appear that poor, motherless Cinderella is taken advantage of by her stepmother, Lady Tremaine, and evil stepsisters, Drizella and Anastasia. Cinderella is orphaned as a young girl. Her mother dies when she is a baby. Her father remarries, trying to provide Cinderella with a mother to raise her. ...

‘The Man Who Loved Children’

Christina Stead’s novel The Man Who Loved Children is one of the most eccentric, painfully honest and humorous novels of the 20th century. Its underlying feminist theme is embodied in the character of Louisa, an overweight and unattractive young girl, whose desire for her father’s love and acceptance is undermined by his childlike persona and abusive, controlling manipulations. She resists her father’s mercurial ideas and psychological browbeating, finding solace in her diaries, poems and a language of her own invention. After the family’s dissolution, which includes Henny’s suicide, Louisa survives and escapes her tortured environment.

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This essays deals with the idea of violence in nursery rhymes and fairy tales that have been (re)told to children over the past several centuries. The idea is that the violence is disguised by the veil of revenge and righteousness, making it appear less conspicuous, but it is nevertheless present, and as such, a possible threat to the child’s psyche. Some of the stories mentioned in the following essay show that they condone violence, for whatever reason, depending on the circumstances under which this particular violence occurs.

Keywords: violence, fairy tales, fables, nursery rhymes

In today’s society, the average human is surrounded by acts ...

The Cinderella, Fairy Tale has been handed down from generation, depicting the hatred of Cinderella’s two step-sisters and her step-mother. The general consensus of this story is Cinderella’s step-mother and step-sister are full of hatred and they unleashed it on her. There is the possibility that the story has another side. Maybe, Cinderella’s extended family has never known love; they do not know what being loved is like. Not knowing or ever experienced love their behavior is understood. No one can display a behavior to which he or she is not exposed. Such a life would deem anyone ...

Introduction

Fables and fairy tales have various inexplicable origins and they have been aesthetically transformed over the years to suit the cultural representations of various countries which have added their patina to it. They seem to be slices of life, and have some core values as well as mythical elements in them. Cinderella is one such tale which has seen its circuit across the world. The women in the talks seem to take multiple roles such as ‘maiden, matron or crone.’ In this tale itself, you have the various representations - the step mother is the crone, the elder ...

Analysis of Asian Horror Movies

The first movie I would like to analyze is a South Korean horror-thriller movie “Old Boy”, directed by Park Chan-Wook, that was first released in 2003. The storyline is based on a poorly-known Japanese manga of the same name, written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. This movie is a part of a trilogy called “Vengeance Trilogy” together with “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” and “Sympathy for Lady Vengeance”. “Old Boy” won the so called “Grand Prix”(the second award in order of importance) during the Cannes Film Festival, receiving also a special mention by Quentin Tarantino (president of the Jury). The impact of ...

Elder Abuse

There have been increasing cases of elder abuse cases in the news recently. The abuse occurs where an individual has been entrusted with the duty of taking care of an elderly person yet does not act in the appropriate manner. There are elderly patients who are neglected and not cleaned or their environment cleaned causing the aged person to be exposed to more sicknesses due to lack of hygiene. There have also been cases where the elderly are physically, emotionally and verbally abusing causing the person to live in fear. The elderly are prone to financial manipulation, theft ...

Wondrous, magical, fantastic, wonderful, fascinating – those are the indications of fairy tales, narratives unusual and frequently irrational. Their world is grasped by one’s intuition, a world flourishing in liveliness, spirit and possibilities of role play, due to the fact that it brandishes a different kind of reality, a less arduous one, with an utterly positive outlook on life, in which life is reminiscent of a wonderful dream, but still not without its troubles and obstacles. Through imagery and potent symbolism, fairy tales express human life experiences and the potentiality of solutions to human troubles. According to Annette R. Federico, “fairy tale maidens ...

This work is about the analysis and comparison of two literary works: a short story, and a poem. The short story is titled “Little Snow-White” by The Brothers Grimm, translated by Margaret Taylor in 1884. On the other hand, the poem is titled “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Anne Sextons. Both the works describe a similar event: the story of a little princess.

In summary, both the poem and the short story talk about a little princess. In the short story, the little princess is referred to as the “Little Snow-White.” This name she got from her late Queen mother who named ...

Abstract

This paper is an examination of some of the psychological aspects of the child/parent relationship. Hansel and Gretel has been analyzed by many, who put forth the notion that it offers a model for understanding the psychological roots of child abandonment, abuse and neglect. As such, this essay offers an overview of a preventive approach that may be applicable to the plight of families, particularly impoverished families such as Hansel and Gretel’s.

A Cautionary Fable: Understanding Primal Fear and Violence in ‘Hansel and Gretel’

Hansel and Gretel is an expression of childhood anxiety over abandonment and parental rejection. It touches ...