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At first glance at this cartoon, it could be seen that it's just a funny joke but in reality, it describes the unrealistic views of not only princess but also women. Women are expected to keep themselves looking presentable. They are expected to keep their hair nice and their legs shave with consideration to what is going on in their lives. The Disney version of “Rapunzel,” titled Tangled , shows Rapunzel with gorgeous long blonde hair, and for someone who is locked in a tower, it looks like they have their life together. This shows young girls that they should always look nice and have their life together when that's not the case. It shows that even in your worst-case scenario you should still look put together. While sometimes it is nice to do your hair and get dressed up while you're going through a rough time might help build confidence, it is also ok not to look presentable and let yourself go through the bad times.  By using the theme of this comic strip, we ca

“The Robber Bridegroom,” “Fitcher’s Bird,” both by the Brothers Grimm, and “Bluebeard,” by Charles Perrault, is about a man who wants to marry a woman and she finds out that he is a murderer. The woman comes up with a plan and catches the murderer.  In both the “Fitcher’s Bird,” and “Bluebeard,” there is a task the women must perform to gain the trust of the man. When the man finds out that she failed the test, he kills the woman and moves onto the next. In “The Robber Bridegroom” the woman is betrothed to the murderer and at their wedding, she tells the story she witnessed at the man's house. The murderer is then arrested and killed. My favorite of the three would be “The Robber Bridegroom,” because it reminds me of the show, Criminal Minds because the woman is forced to visit her fiance. When she gets to his house, she realizes that he's not there so she starts to explore. In the cellar, she finds an old woman who tells her that her fiance is

“Hansel and Gretel,” by the Brothers Grimm, tells the story of a poor woodworker who has two children named Hansel and Gretel. When a famine hit, it became very hard for the man to provide food for his family. One night the children’s stepmother told the man that he needed to leave his children out in the woods to be killed by the wild animals so they could have enough food for the two of them. The man did not want but the stepmother convinced him to do it. In the next room Hansel and Gretel good here what their parents were saying, so Hansel went outside and collected rocks. The next morning, their stepmother gave them each a piece of bread and told them to wait to eat until they were in the woods. While they were walking, Hansel left a trail of the rocks that he had picked up the night before. Once nighttime fell, the children were able to see the rocks shimmer in the moonlight and find they’re way home. The stepmother made the father leave them in woods again but this time she loc

http://joyreactor.com/post/510259 Little Red Riding Hood is one of the most well-known stories. The little girl is given bread and wine by her mother to give her sick Grandmother. Her mother warned her to stay on the path and go straight to Grandma’s house. While on the path, the little girl encounters a wolf, who asks where she’s going. Little Red explains that she is going to her Grandma’s house at the end of the woods. The wolf convinces Little Red to stray off the path and pick flowers while he runs to her Grandma’s house. While he was at the house, he tricked Grandma into thinking it was Little Red, broke in and ate Grandma. When Little Red arrives at the house, she notices that something is different about Grandma but she still got close to her. When she was close enough, the wolf ate Little Red but a hunter walked by the house and noticed that the door was open. So the hunter walked in and saw a wolf but instead of killing him, he cut open the wolf’s stomach

The Greek myth, “Cupid and Psyche,” is a story about a beautiful girl, named Psyche, who makes Venus jealous. Once Venus sent her son, Cupid, down to punish Psyche, he ended up falling in love with her. Venus then cursed Psyche by never allowing anyone to fall in love with her. After her parents learn that she is destined to marry a monster they leave her on top of a mountain where she is then carried away to a beautiful castle that is all hers and she meets her husband but is told she can never see him. One night she snuck into his room and found that it was cupid. So was so taken back how handsome he was that she dropped the candle and burned his skin. Cupid got so angry that he flew away. The castle disappeared, leaving Psyche to wander in sadness. She finally presents herself to Venus, who then gives her two tasks and with the help of other gods, she successfully completes them. For the final task, Venus sends Psyche to the underworld to get Persephone’s beauty box. When she does

The fairytale “Snow White” is one of the most known fairytales around the world, due to the various versions of it and it was Walt Disney’s big break. “Snow White” was Disney’s first movie that was in color, and just like any Disney fairytale, it differs from the original, written by the Brothers Grimm.    At the beginning of the Brothers Grimm version, there's a backstory on how Snow White got her name and how her mother had passed after Snow White was born. In the Disney film, they jump right into the evil stepmother with the magic mirror. In the Disney film, Snow White meets the prince early in the movie, unlike in the original when the prince doesn't enter until Snow White is in the casket. In the original story, the dwarfs tell Snow White that if she wants to stay with them she will have to keep house but in the Disney film Snow White offers to clean the house in hopes that they will let her stay. In the Disney film, there's a scene that lasts about 5 minutes