It was perhaps one of the oddest moments of her life. Anna angled her head around her sister as they both stared at the once glowing indigo doors, now dull and lifeless. The princess remembered seeing the castle filled with the breath of life, alive and brimming with splendors for the eye to see; but it seemed that with the absence of its master, it was like the very lungs of the castle had the wind knocked out of them. It was lifeless and sad, yet still captivating all the same. However, Anna found it odd for the reason that both her and Elsa were standing on one side of a door.
Granted, no one really stood behind this door, but Anna still counted it as an odd moment.
Elsa paused when they reach the top of the staircase. Anna sensed that her sister was slightly distressed. The Queen relented a brief story of what occurred when they captured her while on the sleigh ride up the mountain. Neither of them really wished to continue on the subject, for it brought up a certain distasteful prince and the near death of the Queen. To be frank, the castle before them held many haunting memories.
Why did I bring her here? Elsa wondered.
The Queen did not outstretch her hands like Anna expected, instead the doors opened by themselves and Elsa entered her icy domain. Anna was hesitant to follow, but did so anyway.
“Oh,” Elsa's voice sounded crestfallen and her shoulders drooped upon the sight.
Scattered all over the floor, lay pieces of the gorgeous fountain that once sat in the middle of the room. The Queen had a haunting suspicion that the Duke of Weselton's henchmen would wreak havoc on her castle while she was unconscious. Not much of the solid fixtures were damaged, but for what they could deface was tarnished and broken. Elsa asce...
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...e was at a loss of words. An amber glow danced across Elsa's dress, dazzling Anna as she sat up to take in the full view. She was used to seeing Elsa with a blue look, not as in sad but rather there was always a cool feel to Elsa's exterior; however, Anna found that the warm and golden appearance fitted her sister's just as well.
“Oh, Elsa,” Anna repeated. “You should wear that dress more often.”
“But Anna,” the Queen began, “I wear this dress all the time or at least different variations of it.”
“Well, you need take more walks in the sun then. The fresh air will do you some good and maybe you could gain a bit of color.”
Then Anna smirked and Elsa did too, glancing at her sister out of the corner of her eye. They sat there together, watching as the sun set in the sky. And Anna no longer considered it an odd moment rather one she would treasure for years to come.
The dress was adorned with ruffles all the way around the top of the sweet-heart neckline and sleeves, and also all along the bottom. The garment also had multiple layers. One layer was of a lavender color. There was also a layer on top of that, which was made of a more sheer-material and had stripes of off-white and lavender. This second layer was subtle enough to add shiny detail, without taking away from the beautiful purple color. The dress also had a sash of the second layer’s same material, around the waist. My garment was rich in
The story of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, has been elusive to historians since her death in 1536 at the hands of her husband. This, in part, can be attributed to the destruction of almost everything she touched soon after her execution. On orders of the king, the castles that were once her home had all memory stripped of her. Portraits were destroyed, letters disappeared, their symbol of the H and A intertwined had the A ripped away. The remnants of her time on the throne are pieces of history that were overlooked in the workers haste to strip the castles in preparation for Jane Seymour to become queen. There are few hints left of what really happened during Anne’s life and how important she was during her reign which has created the widespread infatuation with Anne and who she really was. Why is Anne’s life of such interest to us then? The reasons are many and include the desire to know her role in the English reformation, being the first queen of England to ever be executed, and the impact it had on her daughter and the later Queen Elizabeth I.
Her bedroom was closed but with an “open window” (463), with a roomy armchair she sank into. As she is looking out the window she sees “the tops of trees,” “new spring life,” “breath of rain was in the air,” and she could hear a peddler below in the street, calling to customers, and “patches of blue sky showing” (463). The author depicts in the previous sentence that when she uses “breath of rain was in the air,” rain is more like a cleansing so she could be feeling a sign of relief but can’t recognize it. She sat with her head on the cushion “quite motionless,” except when a sob came in her throat and “shook her,” like a child “continuously sobbing” (463) in its dreams. The author uses imagery in the previous
At the beginning of the story Arlene and her daughter, Champ, are at K-Mart. Arlene is looking for makeup and hair dye that will go with a dress that she is borrowing. This is where Viramontes first uses the phrase “it sounds right”. Now think, will this color go good with Pancha’s blue dress? – Pancha is Arlene’s comadre. Since Arlene has a special date tonight, she lent Arlene her royal blue dress that she deeps in a plastic bag at the end of her closet. The dress is made of chiffon, with satin-like material underlining, so that when Arlene first tried it on and strutted about, it crinkled sounds of elegance. The dress fits too tight. Her plump arms squeeze through, her hips breathe in and hold their breath, the seams do all they can to keep the body contained. But Arlene doesn’t care as long as it sounds right. (1-526 ) Here is a woman who tries on a dress that makes her feel young and beautiful. And, takes her back in my opinion to a time that outer beauty came naturally.
had gained a different status in Eva's mind. It became the precious object of memories, where private conversations and dreams were once revealed. Eva gazed with nostalgia at a faded color portrait of the smiling faces of the two sisters.
In the Kingdom of Arendelle, two young princess called Anna and Elsa were very close and used to play together daily. Princess Anna has the power of creating ice and freezing. One day, Elsa accidently hits Anna with her power while they are playing together and almost kills her. Their parents take them to trolls who save Anna’s life, but make her forget her sister’s power. After they go back to their castle, Elsa locks herself in her room from fear of hurting Anna with her power. Their parents die when their ship sinks in the ocean and three years later, Elsa opens again the gates of the castle because it is her coronations’ day. On Elsa’s coronation day, Anna meets prince Hans and she decides to marry him and asks for Elsa’s bless. Elsa does not accept the marriage and gets angry, which makes her lose control over her power and freeze the whole kingdom of Arandelle. Elsa runs to the north mountain and Anna goes after her. While Anna is searching for her sister, she meets the snowman Olaf, the ice salesman Kristoff, and his reindeer Sven.
Before she opened the door, she asked, “Who is it?” But no one answered. A few seconds later there was another knock. Janine flung open the door, “What the...”
Frozen is a masterpiece about two sisters who suffer a broken relationship. Frozen premiered on 27 November 2013, and melted the hearts of its audience. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Frozen displays a relationship between two sisters which is strained due to a secret that should not be revealed. The eldest sister Elsa (Idina Menzel), discovers her powers to freeze anything that is touched. Anna (Kristen Bell) is trying to remain in the public eye, while Elsa wants to shield her powers from everyone, including her own sister. Elsa then flees from Arendelle, after causing a scene at a ball after being coronated. Anna then goes on a quest to find Elsa and bring her back to Arendelle to unfreeze the land. Frozen is a spectacular film due to its incredible storyline, popular music, and the amount of humor.
In the past all of Disney’s Princess movies tend to follow a similar plot line. It was always the same formula, the princess falls in love with the first man she meets and relies on him for comfort and guidance as they go off to live happily ever after. This formula has worked commercially and financially for Disney with movies like, Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (1937), Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Little Mermaid (1989), Aladdin (1992), and Pocahontas (1995). While these movies have turned Disney a huge profit they have never given young girls a strong, independent role model to look up to. These films, while entertaining and visually appealing, have taught young girls nothing but to find the person that they will spend the rest of their life with as soon as possible. Not one of the princess movies allows the princess to be anything more than something of a housewife. These women did not pursue any type of dream or career, they just fell in love with the first man they saw. Now while the Disney princess movies of the past have only been about finding love and riding off into the sunset, there was a Disney release last year that broke the cycle. Frozen, released in November of 2013, was a box office hit grossing over $400 million domestically and $700 million internationally. It did not focus on finding love for the main female character. Instead it built two strong female lead characters while focusing on the importance of sisterhood.
maid for the Queen of France. But a man comes beside her and D’Artagnan is
Anna plays the role of the classic submissive female married to David's classic chauvinist male. "Wanting to remain attractive to her husband, Anna attempts to conform to the eroticized and commodified images of women promulgated in the mass culture" (Bouson 44). Although the novel is set during the 1970"s, the decade of one of the great feminist movements in our history, Anna remains a woman who maintains herself for her husbands benefit. In a critical scene in the novel, the narrator sees Anna applying makeup. When she (the narrator) tells her that it is unnecessary where they are Anna says "He doesn't like to see me without it," and then quickly adds, "He doesn't know I wear it" (41).
The Main Street station, is the curtains to a large production as if the Magic Kingdom was a theater. As I wander beneath the archway, I notice that above the arch is a plaque that reads: “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy”. As I continue to stroll through the passage on the way to Main Street, there are posters of “upcoming attractions” that line the walls on both sides. I then step into Main Street U.S.A. and begin to hear the Victorian style orchestra playing over the speakers. I notice some Disney pals in Town Square greeting guests as if they were old friends. Then I begin to travel further down the street, and the smell of the caramel apples, chocolate chip cookies, and other sweets walk out of the open doors of the bakery and into the street. At the end of this turn of the century town, sits the one hundred eightyninefoottall, Cinderella Castle. This moment is a pivotal moment in any Disney vacation, because the castle is well known to millions. I get
The heavy door seemed like a prison door that was meant to keep inmates inside. The Nurse on the other hand who was attending the visitor’s desk was dressed in a white uniform. She was as cold in her reception, similar to the day that was cold outside. Marian does not tell the nurse her true intentions of being there except that she was a campfire girl wanting to visit some old lady. When asked by the nurse in a manly voice “Acquainted with any of our residents?” (122), Marian nervously pushing her hair behind and stammers “With any old ladies? No – but – that is, any of them will do”. (122) showing that the both of them were really not concerned about the
Ice is a powerful substance, having the ability to carry beauty wherever it goes, but it can carry danger as well. Like ice, people can be both good and bad; however, man’s power to decide can determine which way they fall in morality. In the movie Frozen’s pinnacle song “Let It Go,” Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez give the deuteragonist Elsa a lyrical introspection of escaping and running away from those whom she can hurt with her cold powers, and is now free to do whatever she wants in her mountain of isolation. Looking deeper into the song, however, Elsa’s troubled and misguided decision to evade her fears begin to surface and foreshadow her fate throughout the rest of the movie. Through the use of both figurative language and diction, “Let It Go” paints a vivid picture of the good in liberating oneself from fear and restriction, yet cautions the repressed soul of the bad in avoiding one’s problems.
Little Snow White 's stepmother was the most beautiful woman in the land. The queen had a magical mirror, which every morning she stood by, and asked, "mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" The mirror always answered, " you are, my queen". Now, she knew for sure that she was the only beautiful women in the world. However, when Snow White turned seven years old, everyone in the kingdom were mesmerized by her beauty. She surpassed even the queen 's beauty. One morning, the queen asked the mirror once again, "mirror, mirror in the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" The mirror answered her this time, " Snow White ".