Comparison of two short stories: Mrs. Pulaska by Christopher Burns and
My Good Fairy by Christopher Hope
Mrs. Pulaska and My Good Fairy are both stories in which a child describes a memory of a certain person. Both stories are written in the past tense "She had sought refuge among us" and "Nicomedus was a big giver". Both stories are also written in the first person, so the viewpoint is the same. In Mrs. Pulaska a child tells about Mrs. Pulaska's role in the community and how she differed so much from the normal people. In My good Fairy a child tells about Nicomedus, a generous person who actually is nobody. The narrator tells about his relation with this person and what kind of person Nicomedus was. In both the introductions the narrator is a child, in Mrs. Pulaska the narrator uses "my schoolfriends and me". The roles of these narrators are the same. They tell about what they know about the person in the story, and how they feel about them.
In Mrs. Pulaska the title person is the central character, everything said in the story refers to her. In My Good Fairy Nicomedus is the main character. Both may be seen as people outside of the community but they're portrayed in different ways. Mrs. Pulaska is someone people are afraid of "An emissary from an unknown world", this tells us people don't understand her. It's also someone people despise, she wears only black clothes and mittens, which suggest that she is mourning over someone, maybe her husband, but since the people in the town don't know they find the way she acts rather bizarre.
Nicomedus is a friend of the narrator; he was generous "a big giver" even though he looked poor. He was a servant of the people who lived in the house; he calls the child lord. He could make things appear out of nowhere and it was someone who was trusted. Nicomedus is not a real person. In the story the sentence "He'd wink or clap and suddenly something would appear" confirms this. It suggests he could be someone magical, or he had other powers, not something a normal person would do. Nicomedus was a very old and tiny person; he was already there when people entered the house.
There are thousands of versions of cinderella told all around the world in different cultures and languages. They are all similar and different in their own way and all of the similarities and differences can reveal something about the culture they originate from. Katie Woodencloak and The Irish Cinderlad have both have their own fairy godmother but they are not the same. Both fairy godmothers reveal something about the economy of the country.
Growing up as a little black girl, I rarely found dolls or princesses that looked like me. It was until I ran across the Rodgers and Hammerstein’s version of Cinderella movie starring the African American pop star Brandy as Cinderella. The made-for-television film was a remake of the Julie Andrews R&H Cinderella. But even the Julie Andrews version was based off the ancient folk tale. Although the movies are very similar, both films have a very unique touch to them.
'My Fair Lady' (1964) and 'Pretty Woman' (1990), both based on the 1938 film adaptation of the original 1913 stage play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, are both widely immensed blockbuster movies who have made it to the 'classics' list of movies that never get old, gaining infinite fame and success. The female audience swoon over the movies, wishing for a Prince Charming, a Henry Higgins, or a Edward Lewis to magically appear before them, for who wouldn't want to live the life of a woman who goes from rags to riches in a few days and falls madly in love with her savior? What woman wouldn't want to be swept away, rescued, and redeemed into heterosexual heaven? To be completely transformed into societies perfect image of what a woman
Cinder and Cinderella are basically based on the same thing, yet are very different. Although cinder and Cinderella have many similarities like,they both have a stepmother, they both go to the ball yet they go for different reasons.
The tale of Cinderella has been around for hundreds of years. Generations continue to enjoy the story and share it amongst each other throughout our world today. Different versions have been made to the story since it was first published. The fairytale of Cinderella has adapted and changed with our cultures and times in diverse ways to appeal to all types of audiences in the modern world. When comparing the tale of Cinderella between Charles Perrault’s and the Grimm brother’s versions, there are comparative changes made to the story. Some of the notable changes comparable between the two stories are; the figure that helps Cinderella achieve her wishes, the types of wishes granted, the reason for her departure from the ball, and the fate of her stepsisters at the end of the story. While these changes are prominent changes in the story line, the outline of the story is similar.
Life is more interesting when doing things that are not done on a daily basis. For me, going to an opera is very rare; in fact I have never gone to one until January 31, 2016. The name of it is called Rusalka , an Italian opera. There were many intriguing moments during the opera, which caught my attention even more. From the live intensifying music of the orchestra to the tragic storyline, I loved every bit of it.
In this essay I will write about fairytales. Fairytales are always not true and they have always stereotypes about women and men. Sometimes they can be not true and not fair. One example is when women need to cleen the house , make food, wash clothes and many other things that you need to do at home. This is not always true, but it can be true. For men it is like they need to have money and keep the family safe. This is also not always true, but also it can be true. More spesifectly I will compare two cindirella stories which are the norway and the france story. The france trory is original and it’s name is only ”Cinderella” and the norway story is named totaly diferent: ”Katie wodencloak ”. They are mostly diferent, because in the katie wodencloak it is very much traveling and in the cinderella story is not.
The target audience for “ Life of a Fairy” is children between the ages of five through nine. The values to a child are color, creativity, and imaginative. The parents value their child to be happy and entertained. Life of a fairy is a book that can keep kids entertained and their imaginations running every time they pick up the book .
As I was brainstorming ideas for my children’s book, I tried to think of ways that I could relate my book back to Pudd’nhead Wilson. I remembered that when I was reading the part where Roxy switched the babies she mentions that “de angels” (Twain, 12) were going to look down upon and protect Chambers who was about to become Tom. When I saw, the word angels I immediately thought of Fairy Godmothers and I decided that the Roxy saw kind of herself as a fairy godmother for her son because she was doing what she thought was the best for her son at the time. I decided to make my children’s book about princesses switched by Pearle, the Fairy Godmother. I focused on the moral of honesty is the best policy because if Tom and Roxy, along with Tatiana
A lot of the fairy tale stories that we have seen as young adults and even as adults are original folk tale stories that have been modified and rewritten to accommodate our new cultures. Cinderella happens to be one of these stories that have been changed over the years. There are many different versions of Cinderella, an African Cinderella, a Hungarian Cinderella and even a Chinese version. All of the Cinderella’s are similar in plot, but the author dictates the story’s theme based on the people whom he is writing for which completely changes the story’s tone, mood and other elements. While Perrault's version stresses the values and materialistic worries of his middle-class audience, Grimm’s' focus is on the harsh realities of life associated with the peasant culture. Perrault’s and Grimm’s Cinderella’s have the same plot, but their writing style is different which completely modifies the tale.
Although Cinder and Cinderella (Ella) have many similarities like their step-moms rudeness, they have more differences. One of the differences are, Cinder is a novel and Cinderella is a (Disney) movie.
Over centuries of children have been enjoying the classic fairy tales of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault. The fanciful plots and the vivid details allow children to be entranced by characters and adventures that can only be found in these stories. One of the most beloved fairy tales, which both the Perrault and the Grimms have their own separate versions of, is Cinderella. Cinderella is able to show how both versions are able to feed off the same plots while personifying the century and social economic situation in which they have lived.
In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologues, “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”, both portray women that are killed by their significant others. In “Porphyria’s Lover” her lover seems to be obsessed and not wanting to let her go, whereas in “My Last Duchess”, the speaker appears to be jealous by the woman. By having these two different deaths, why does Browning have the men commit these acts on the woman they love? Perhaps he wants to demonstrate and justify how these acts of crimes where done in the name of love or does he want us to acknowledge certain flaws that made them act on their crimes.
Comparing Little Red Riding Hood folktales is a multi tasks operation, which includes many elaborations on the many aspects of the story. Setting, plot, character origin, and motif are the few I chose to elaborate solely on. Although the versions vary, they all have the motif trickery, the characters all include some sort of villain with a heroin, the plot concludes all in the final destruction or cease of the villain to be, and, the setting and origins of the versions vary the most to where they are not comparable but only contrastable, if one can say that origins and settings are contrastable.
The Grimm brothers wrote fairytales in a time period where women weren't looked up upon as much as men. They weren't held up to high expectations. Fairytale society was similar to real society.Fairytales had female and male characters that reflected society.Fairytales taught us lessons about growing up and and what was expected but you may not have noticed. Fairytales started making female characters helpless and make characters strong and heroic, which was an exact mirror of societal beliefs of this time period.