Essays on Tales

The male and female perspectives in works of art are mostly expressed through the characteristics given to the characters and the themes. Most men believe in facing off their problems individually without involving other parties. In the ‘King Pig’, there are different ways the writer tries to express this idea. In the story, the king’s son who was later called Mister Piggy hears his first and second wives plotting to kill him while asleep. He doesn’t tell anyone about the evil thoughts of his wives but kills them first before they try to kill him. Even when ...

Having rediscovered the traditional German fairy-tale about Snow White and the wicked queen, Neil Gaiman introduces a perspective, quite different from others previously expressed. In his story Snow, Glass, Apples Snow White and the queen appear in different colors. They are both strong, and they both appear to implement their powers in their own ways. In the story, Neil Gaiman seems to present both female characters from different perspectives, enduing them with both traditional and feminist traits of their personalities. The entire story by Gaiman seems to be a feminist interpretation of the traditional German fairy-tale by Grimm brothers. ...

O’Brien says that stories can make the dead come back to life through remembering. O’Brien explains a story of about the first dead body he witnessed in Vietnam of an old Vietnamese man. Other people in the platoon to the dead man in a mocking manner: One man proposed a slice of bread to the corpse, but O’Brien would not participate. O’Brien says that the corpse reminded him of Linda, a girl she used to know, then O’Brien all over sudden segues into the story about Linda. Despite the fact that O’Brien was ...

According to Andersen and Taylor (2008), "through gender socialization, men and women learn the expectations associated with their sex" (305). Speaking from the perspective of my own upbringing, I consider play, clothes, fairy tales, schooling and mass media to be the major socializing agents in my childhood. Obviously, the fundamental source of this process are parents, who encourage children to play with particular toys, choose clothes that they consider to be appropriate for their children, and educate children by means of fairy tales. Speaking within the context of toys, as on the fundamental socializing agents, the first thing that ...

Introduction

Sociology and gender studies are both expansive subject areas. In this paper, the author aims to identify and examine the existence of gender stereotyping in some famous works of literature, notably fairytales. This paper is a research proposal that outlines the research problems that the author hopes to identify, a contextualized background of the study (i.e. gender stereotyping in fairytales), a review of relevant literatures (focusing on some of the well-known fairytales that may contain evidences of gender stereotyping, a discussion about and the objectives and methods that will be used in the actual research paper. Gender stereotyping is ...

INTRODUCTION

Everyone remembers stories beginning with “once upon a time” and ending in “happily ever after.” Some people see fairytales as antiquated ideologies that are not beneficial in the modern era. Others believe that they are harmless tales intended to spark children’s imagination. Fairytales can establish ideologies about good and evil and right and wrong. They are, also, filled with pointed gender role ideals and gender stereotypes that are, today, ethically questionable. In the last few decades, there has been a literary movement of taking classic fairytales and attempting to update them and eliminate many stereotypes. This leads to ...

‘Oedipus the King’ was written by the Greek playwright Sophocles. Though a tragedy, like many from the Greek classics, it is laden with meaning that finds relevance even today in the modern world. The story contains a riddle about a murder and how it politically affects the state. The story, in a few words, is about the downfall of a brave warrior. This theme recurs in all cultures and can be found in almost any literature in the world. Since the theme is universal, folk cultures are replete with ballads to depict such tales. With the development of literature, ...

INTRODUCTION

The film “Braveheart” takes place in the 13th century and tells the tale of William Wallace a humble Scotts-man who falls in love with a young woman whom he makes his wife. However, Scotland was still under the thumb of English rule. This rule essentially allowed British soldiers to do as they please, including accost, abuse and rape the common-folk. This is the sad fate of William Wallace’s new bride. She is essentially executed for fighting against an English officer who attempted to rape her. Enraged, her death would send Wallace on the mission of saving Scotland and ...

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 ...

Good day! I am here today to speak to you about Area 51. Much has been said and written about Area 51. The main perception of this area is that it is so secretive such that there are many theories that abound to this day about Area 51. It has been romanticized in books, papers and films that the area is the site where an alien ship crashlanded, that it is an area where meetings with aliens are held, and that time travel and teleportation are held here as well. Today, I would like to provide with information that ...

There can be no denial of the fact that literary works provide the creative artist with the utmost liberty to delve deep into interpersonal relationships and depth of emotions, thereby exploring the very true essence of human nature through the creative works of art. If one takes into consideration the famous play, Othello, penned by the acclaimed playwright, William Shakespeare, the quintessential exploration and depiction on the part of the creative artist can very well be comprehended as the play deciphers the subtleties of emotions and interpersonal relationship between the two sexes through the apt portraiture of the main ...

Across his journey of fifty years as an artist, Pinkney has succeeded in viewing the world from a different and better perspective and coming up with outstanding images that reveal his love for life, race, community and culture. His works of art offer a significant proof that good acts, no matter how minute are never a waste when displayed in beautiful images (Llanas 45). Initially created for product advertisements, greeting cards, covers and pages of periodicals, postage stamps and well-travelled historic sites, Jerry’s have also been displayed in more than one hundred illustrated books. One of the most ...

Summary and Analysis

South Asia is a huge piece of land and ocean for about 2 million square miles. It can be called India subcontinent as the major part of South Asia consists of India. By the way South Asia is the most populated land. It is known for its unique food and big amount of foreign residents. It tells us about the caste system which divides people into five groups: Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Sudras and Untouchables according to different body parts of the deity “Brahma”. It explains in details caste system: how it works, food traditions, wedding and religions. Also it ...

"I'm glad there's some folks gettin' interested in the old ways. This new generation don't know such things, but when they find the old songs and the tales, they'll delight in them." --Granny in Grandfather Tales (Chase & Williams, 1948) The Southern Appalachian region has a rich heritage of folklore and songs passed down orally from European immigrants settling in the mountain range situated from New York to Georgia (Abramson & Haskell, 2006) from the 18th to the 20th centuries (Hanlon, 2000). Since the middle of the 20th century, variations of the folktales have been compared to publications such as Grandfather ...

Discussion Board Posts

What is the miracle of Caedmon’s hymn? Consider the poem itself as well as Bede’s account of its genesis The miracle of Caedmon’s Hymn according to the Venerable Bede is that while Bede had always known Caedmon as a great poet of unmatched skill. He did not always possess such a talent. Bede contended that the gift of song that Caedmon had could have only come from God. The reason for this was so Caedmon could bring the people that come to listen to him away from evil. For much of Caedmon’s life he had ...

Many people accept that it takes a village to raise a child, but it takes many people to raise a village as well. A town is one of the most complex systems that a person may imagine; however, it is just one unit, and all the people come together to work together in a similar manner. This obviously does not mean that people will always work towards the same goal, but that a town makes an intricate web in which the strands al relate to each other in a different way. Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City presents such ...

Writing a historical novel must be no easy task, especially when it comes making it interesting and relatable. Even though many authors have attempted to do it throughout the years, not all of them have succeeded due to the complexity of the endeavor. Nevertheless, Eric D. Lehman’s 2009 novel is a beautiful work that brings to life a city, even if a person has never visited it. Bridgeport: Tales from the Park City is the biography of a city, something as complex as a single person, if not even more. He brings the history of the geographical location ...

Nature is an important element in many of the early texts. Both Beowulf and Canterbury Tales, written in very early English, use and personify Nature. It can be useful, therefore, to discuss the persona and action of nature in both texts, in an exploration of the use of nature in early fiction. This paper will, therefore, compare and contrast nature in the works of Beowulf and Canterbury Tales. The imagery in the opening prologue of the Canterbury Tales is expressly related to nature. It describes the rebirth of spring, but the verbiage, specifically, that is used by Chaucer to ...

Introduction

Racism refers to the act of distinguishing the superiority or otherwise of members belonging to a particular race and discriminating them based on their appearance and perceived characteristics. Depending on the language and the characters that writers choose to use while writing stories, a text may propagate racism by including characters that reflect certain races as inferior while also portraying other characters perceived as representing other races as superior. Accordingly, the manner in which scholars portray racism in their stories may differ from one’s personal prejudices to the period when the story was written. Ultimately, the extent of ...

Chaucer sets The Canterbury Tales in a period of economic evolution in England, so it is unsurprising that social strata is an important theme. It is perhaps most significant in the representations of members of the new middle class. A central question this new social grouping rears is what constitutes power in society, especially within the context of their specific community. As seen in The Tales, wealth isn’t the only factor influencing power struggle among the classes. The late 1380s and early 1390s England experienced a period of significant social turmoil. The plague was responsible for the deaths ...

An analysis of the problems associated with the word "Troll" require a study of the words etymology in relation to its origin and the way in which it has evolved and developed throughout the years. An analysis of the research available on the etymology of the word suggests Scandinavian origins that can be traced deep into the Scandinavian folklores. The word "troll" is, therefore, quite ancient as well as complex and contradictory in nature. The various Scandinavian countries identify trolls as mythological creatures in their literary cultures. However, trolls do differ in their nature from the various countries, meaning ...

Thesis Proposal

Thesis Statement There are conspicuous differences regarding the extent of racism that readers perceive through narratives when comparing the experiences of people reading stories from the 21st century point of view and others reading the same narratives and interpreting them on their own terms.

Introduction

Racism entails distinguishing the superiority or inferiority of members belonging to a specific race based on perceived characteristics and abilities leading to discrimination against people belonging to races that people consider inferior. Many texts whether scholarly or not present information that may portray specific races as inferior while depicting others as superior. The way texts ...

The stories presented by Lawson are characterized by realistic illustrations of limited desires and needs of common domestic life and many hardships. Isolation is a very prolific theme in this the Drover’s Wife because the whole story explores the issues of loneliness, separation from mates and hard work by the women characters in the absence of their husbands. The woman is used to being left alone and it even states that she was once left alone for eighteen months. As a young lady, she desires to live like a princess and have a good life, and that is ...

Identifying the main problematics of the word "troll requires recalling its etymology, i.e. the very first time when it was used and its transformation over the centuries. An accurate analysis of the specific sources suggests that this word is quite ancient, multi-valued, and most notably, very contradictory. The word has Scandinavian roots and its etymology goes deep into folklore. The word "troll" has a direct relationship with nature because trolls, as mythological creatures, represent nature. On this basis, one can say that trolls from Denmark differ from trolls in Sweden, Norway, and Iceland. Despite the fact that the geographical ...

Fairy tales lure children with their simple and easy to understand style and magic in the story.

The common character in any fairy tale is an imaginary being with magical powers. For Example, in “the Cinderella” story, the protagonist, Cinderella gets gold dress and jewelry out of the blue from the fairy godmother in one version or the tree near her mother’s grave in another version of the story. These supernatural powers do not represent the real world. Inculcating this false view of the world through fictional fantasy in children, who are very impressionable in the young ages, causes insidious harm to them. Instead of fostering spirit of scientific thinking, they are doing the exact ...

Science fiction is nonexistent devoid of scientific and technological concepts. This essay aims at exploring how cautionary tales in science fiction make use of ideas rooted in science or technology. It focuses on four narratives and how their writers have incorporated scientific notions in creating admonitions. The four stories include Second Variety by Philip K. Dick, Slow Life by Michael Swanwick, Desertion by Clifford D. Simak, and Swarm by Bruce Sterling. These authors have used biological, chemical, physical, astronomical, or mechanical abstractions to warn the reader of impending danger in the narrative. In his narration, Philip K. Dick uses ...

“The Canterbury Tales” is a story well placed in its very setting and story-telling environment. It is, in itself, an actual microcosm of the medieval world of its day. It fits well within the uncharted and creative medieval times in which it was written, adding harmony. Shakespeare the playwright compares to Shakespeare the poet in his witty sense of realistic situational writing. As playwright and poet, both of his traits involve works of writing, which place certain characters in unusual settings, at the most unusual of times.allowing for the most extraordinary of outcomes! In Shakespeare’s plays, his poems ...

Introduction

Definition Change is necessary for the survival of any organization. As time passes, technology advances, peoples’ attitudes and values change, laws and political control change, and there is the need for an organization to keep up with these changes as well. Change management is the way people deal with these changes. In an organization, change management includes the definition of the new norms, talking to the stakeholders about the design of specific changes, and planning and implementing the transition to a new business process or organizational structure (Xiongwei, 2009). Even though it is necessary for organizations to improve some ...

Romanticism. Introduction. As many got tired of regularity and rationality of Classicism, people of art started to try to find a way to express their emotions and attitudes through methods more free from canons. They found such possibility in Romanticism. Romanticism replaces the Age of Enlightenment, and coincided with the industrial revolution, that was marked by the advent of the steam engine, locomotive, ship, photos, and factory suburbs. While education was characterized by the cult of reason, and was based on its principles of civilization, romanticism advocated the cult of nature, senses and all the natural in man. It ...

Module

Matriculation Number Study Programme The Great Vowel Shift in the English Language is one of the most important events in the evolution of modern English phonetics and pronunciation. It occurred towards the end of the Middle Ages and carried on into the English Renaissance, culminating in the seventeenth century when vowel usage was more or less consolidated. The event was likely caused due to a complex combination of socio-economic factors as well as cultural and technological change, but its effects are of more immediate concern. The Great Vowel Shift is responsible for creating many of the rules of written ...

Immigration is one of the most complicated aspects of the human experience. Even though they may share species, people around the world are very different, with each culture housing its own world. Even though the United States of America was a country designed for and by immigrants, it has developed its own way of life that the people that go there have to adapt to. Many people soon see that the American Dream is really an illusion and that they must constantly fight to keep themselves afloat. There may be many similarities between how people react to this change ...

English 263: Holocaust Literature

Introduction The Holocaust experience remains something memorable in the world history as one of the worst events in the world. Various authors have come up with different literature pertaining to the Holocaust events and the experience. None of the literature can be deemed accurate compared to another. The experiences during this period by the Jews under the Nazi regime led by Adolf Hitler were extreme and in the modern civilized society, no person can subject to such torture and death without punishment. The Holocaust literature is thus an interesting topic for readers to study and understand. The two books ...

Human existence is marred by contradictions and Hesiod’s Pandora myth introduces man to the complexity of male-female relations as well as the futility of hope. This paper seeks to analyze Hesiod’s myth paying particular attention to the depiction of Pandora, the meaning of her name and the role that hope plays in man’s life. The paper further explores the parallels between Pandora and Eve of the Old Testament. The depiction of Pandora and Eve from the Old Testament is full of ambiguities that make it difficult to easily decipher whether they are intended to be good ...

La Jetée (1962) is a short science fiction film by Chris Marker. It is twenty-eight minutes long, totally in black and white, and it is comprised of a series of photos. The film describes a post-war experiment using time travel from the past to the future and vice versa in post-apocalyptic France. The director uses time travel by employing two techniques: the power of memory through a fairy tale’s illusion and the effect of photography. Like ‘Snow White’ and ‘Briar Rose’, La Jetée is a fairy tale, a political fairytale. It begins with a story of ...

The world as it is today is defined by culture. Different countries have varied cultures that define them which can also be used to symbolize their identity. People embrace their culture which is passed down from generation to generation as a means of preservation to prevent culture extinction. Culture includes art, knowledge, ethics, credence, law, practices and any other abilities and traditions acquired by human beings as society members. Culture can also be said to be a people’s way of life. This paper will, therefore, address issues related to art and world cultures. The community is defined by ...

Othello is a Shakespearean classic tragedy that has been adopted into different modern day versions in cinema and theatre. It is a tragic tale of envy, revenge, manipulation and murder. The 2001 British modern day adaptation of Othello sticks with the classical themes of jealousy, envy and murder. The Geoffrey Sax movie is set in modern day London that is witnessing riots due to police brutality. This paper seeks to explore the treatment of the theme of evil and revenge in the two disparate versions of Othello. Understanding the depiction of evil also means understanding the inner workings and ...

[Client’s name] Discuss how the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and one of the tales themselves could function as a criticism of the three estates of medieval culture; that is, the social hierarchy of the 14th century. How do Chaucer’s descriptions of the pilgrims in the prologue contribute to this? In the Medieval Culture there were three estates of the society. There were those, who prayed, those who fought and those who worked. In Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer the representatives of each estate go into the journey, and right from the Prologue each participant starts ...

The heroic narratives of the legend of King Arthur have somehow persevered through centuries and are still alive in contemporary times. Presently, societies are aware of the fable because of multiple depictions that range from movies to novels, all of which spin the tale in one way or another. Still, the depiction of King Arthur in such works revolves around a character that is not only victorious and strong as a leader but also passionate about his kingdom, ready to defend it from potential harm. Still, is it possible that King Arthur of Camelot and the documented adventures in ...

Most often, Fairy tales contribute to the cultural stability in the society by creating and implementing certain perceptions and ideas regarding the ideal behavior specified for women. In most of the fairy tales the women possess certain virtues which include the core notions of passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the males. It can be stated that women are portrayed to fulfill the needs of the male figures in the society. It is a regrettable fact to note that women characters from fairy tales always depend on the males for seeking any material possession in their lives. ...

Most often, the Fairy tales contribute to the cultural stability in the society by creating and implementing certain perceptions and ideas regarding the ideal behavior specified for women. In most of the fairy tales the women possess certain virtues which include the core notions of passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the males. It can be stated the portrayed role of women is supposed to fulfill the needs of the male figures in the society. It is a regrettable fact to note that women characters from fairy tales always depend on the males for seeking any material ...

The Canterbury Tales is one of the greatest pieces of literature because of Chaucer’s story-telling techniques. He weaves together various stories and characters to create this memorable tale that continues to be studied and examined throughout the ages. However, some of the pilgrim’s tales are more engaging to the readers than other ones. For instance, the Knight’s Tale is filled with courtly love, jousting and war scenes, as well as the time honored knight’s code. It can be considered a tale of courtly love as well as an epic due to its writing style. Despite ...

The master craftsman, William Shakespeare, in his Othello and The Winter’s Tale portrays some curious facets of femininity, maybe deliberately or not. Desdemona in Othello is a Venetian beauty with astute and resolute individuality, while Hermione in The Winter’s Tale is mysterious and majestic. When we take the reality aspect, the former is more realistic and true to life, which has implications even in this modern present. The latter is to an extent unreal, and somewhat fantasy. Character is everything in Shakespeare’s plays; the works have no existence apart from the characters. In Shakespeare’s plays, ...

The May Fourth Movement and Chinese Literature

China has a long and rich history that stretches over several centuries. Part of that history, naturally, is a rich cultural history that includes a fine literary tradition. Unfortunately, most of that literary tradition is not well known to the West. Modern Chinese literature, that which is popular in the Western world, developed as a result of the cultural revolution that began with the May Fourth Movement. The May Fourth Movement was part of a cultural and political revolution in China that led to the birth of a new intellectual class in China as well as an opening up ...

Introduction

The objective of this paper is to compare and contrast two tales that are available in the Canterbury Tales. There were some twenty four titles to choose from and the two tales chosen were The Knight’s Tale and the Cook’s Tale.

Comparison Proper

In the Knight’s tale, the setting was in Greece at a time when the knights’ battle against Creon was just finished. It focused on the story of knighthood. There were two knights in the story named Palamon and Arcite. Knights have been known for their various typical aspects such as respect, morals, ethics, chivalry, piety, ...

Article Analysis

The cries of the goblin merchants give the story its haunting quality. Lizzie is more sensible than Laura, so she is more protective when it comes to heeding the cries, and she ends up protecting Laura.

Repeating Lizzie’s warnings over and over again provides an “aural lesson” for the reader, as well as for Laura.

There is some disagreement as to whether the nature of the cries is local in context or provides a larger comment about the class war. Rossetti’s poem is somewhere between the sounds of the streets around her and the literary evocations of that city that transform sounds into words. London had a reputation for being filled with a huge array of noises ...

Most often, the Fairy tales contribute to the cultural stability in the society by creating and implementing certain perceptions and ideas regarding the ideal behavior specified for women. In most of the fairy tales the women possess certain virtues which include the core notions of passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice for the well-being of the males. It can be stated the portrayed role of women is supposed to fulfill the needs of the male figures in the society. It is a regrettable fact to note that women characters from fairy tales always depend on the males for seeking any material ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction used symbols and intense imagery to tap into the dark and unknown parts of human existence. Hit gothic tales sought to redefine the ultimate human experience by showing the prevalence of horror in everyday life. Normal individuals are driven to rage and madness and they get to commit the most heinous crimes without reasonable justification for their actions. In “Legia” and “The Black Cat”, Poe relies on symbolism and imagery to show humanity’s relationship with nature and death. Poe explores man’s attempt at rationalizing the irrational. This paper seeks to compare and ...

The question of defining one’s gender has long been an issue. Contrary to the modern biological reduction that purports itself to be self-evident, people across the millennia have found different ways of being male or female. As always, art has been one of the greatest ways culture has had to depict this. Particularly, the lead young female characters in two short stories by women authors in the twentieth century will allow the reader to see one precise way of construction of the female gender, and the male one by subtraction. In Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” and ...

Fairy tales contributes to cultural stability in the society since they implement certain perceptions and ideas of how women are supposed to behave. In most fairy tales, women possess certain virtues which include passivity dependency and self-sacrifice. The role of women is to fulfill the needs of the male figures. It is regrettably to note that women from fairy tales always depends on a man for material possession. The male figure is perceived as a superior being responsible for making decisions in a family setup while the woman is expected to submit to her husband. Since I was a ...

Introduction

The depiction of female characters in television has long been one of Feminism’s great worries and battles. Throughout the decades, females have been shown as one dimensional and weak, often reduced to mere companions or prizes for the lead, male characters. The popular television saga Game of Thrones has long come under the view of these critics, yet many have reached opposite conclusions. Even though some contend that it is deeply Feminist, other critics believe that it is extremely misogynist, painting women in a negative light. The present text will argue that historical considerations and character development show ...

Fairytales play an important role in the formation of personality in childhood. Knowing this, most parents read stories to their children. In fact, every fairy tale has a moral lesson that is presented in the form of a narrative. And children, by reading stories, automatically learn certain truths. However, some fairy tales might be more than instructive stories. Sometimes they can have quite ambiguous subtext. This paper analyzes the fairy tale "Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Probably everyone used to read this story as a child. It seemed that everything is clear in it. This paper presents a ...

[Client’s name] Discuss how the General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales and one of the tales themselves could function as a criticism of the three estates of medieval culture; that is, the social hierarchy of the 14th century. How do Chaucer’s descriptions of the pilgrims in the prologue contribute to this? In the Medieval Culture there were three estates of the society. There were those, who prayed, those who fought and those who worked. All the representatives went into the journey, and right from the Prologue each participant starts to tell the stories that show all the ...

It needs to be reckoned that literature goes on to mirror the society and the culture. Innumerable examples can be cited where the authors have delved into the socio-cultural or socio-economic factors of the world around in their texts through their creative eyes. Now, after the Second World War, the literature of the world saw the responses of the creative artist catering to the needs of the post-war era that encompassed human existence with all its surmounting effect. One can take into consideration the works of the stalwart poet, T.S. Eliot, who engaged in exploring the socio-political dynamics during ...

Using the text, “survival in Auschwitz" by Primo Levi and the text, Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk. This are two text are tales of personal experience in the death camp. In the text “survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi the author narrates his experiences of his ten months’ incarceration in the infamous death camp. The text is harrowing sad story of systematic cruelty and the miraculous endurance of the various forms of torture. The text is lasting testament to the unbreakable human spirit (Levi p 3). The text Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque ...

History of Sleepy Hollow Sleepy Hollow, Hudson River village defies the passage of time and has managed to preserve both its history and natural beauty. The village is known for its fabulous legends and great history and has a wide range of outdoor adventures and activities for the locals and tourists.The Village of Sleepy Hollow belonged to the larger province of the Native American tribe, Weckquaesgeck Indians, who are described as a Mohican Tribe or a Delaware Tribe1. The Sleepy Hollow countryside is made famous by the author Washington Irving. The village is located in the lower Hudson River ...

Each and every region on the planet has its own traditions and customs; basically, in the other words – its own culture. There is no doubt that all of these aspects or elements of culture are based on the geographical area of the aboriginal people’s living. Nature plays the prominent role in the humanity’s life. Folklore is that specific type of literature, which people are passing from generation to generation through songs, visual art, tales, legends, ghost stories, etc. According to this, there are a number of scientists and researchers all over the world, who are highly interested ...

The tale of America’s tumultuous racial history is fraught with conflict, fear and violence, as people of color throughout America’s history have had to fight tooth and nail for what freedoms and rights they currently enjoy. To that end, the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s were some of the bravest, most courageous activists within this movement, riding interstate buses to challenge the strict segregation laws that had been put in place throughout the Southern United States. In 2011, a group of brave Americans sought to recapture that activist spirit by reenacting their ...

The folklore refers to the wisdom, information and the human expression that is passed on anonymously from one generation to the other or circulated and transmitted as the traditional cultural behavior. The Canadian folklore includes the legends, songs, rhymes, songs, proverbs, superstitions, weather lore and the practices like the traditional craft-making and food making To become the folklore, the story, belief or custom must undergo the process of the ‘folklorization’ and meet the criteria approved by the community intended. The item may undergo the process many times to qualify. In Canada, the anonymity with the general recognition, variation and ...

There is a common discussion amongst those interested in literature about the metaphors and allusions in the works of Lewis Carroll. Lewis Carroll first invented the Alice character in the work Alice in Wonderland, published in 1865. Scholars studying Carroll’s stories, including Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass have debated whether or not he was able to weave together abstract notions into a cogent story, or if he simply delivered fractured fairy tales for a 20th Century audience. The truth is that Carroll worked purely within the realm of thte imagination, and although he did occasionally ...

Fairytales play an important role in the formation of personality in childhood. Knowing this, most parents read stories to their children. In fact, every fairy tale has a moral lesson that is presented in the form of a narrative. And children, by reading stories, automatically learn certain truths. However, some fairy tales might be more than instructive stories. Sometimes they can have quite ambiguous subtext. This paper analyzes the fairy tale "Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault. Probably everyone used to read this story as a child. It seemed that everything is clear in it. This paper presents a ...