...Product/Service The Fairy Godmother is a small, locally-owned business currently based in Bloomington, Indiana. The main source of business comes from local customers interested in custom clothing. The two biggest revenue streams come from the custom production of prom dresses and drag costumes. The business does offer other services such as custom costumes for Halloween or fan conventions, regalia for graduation, and formal wear for any occasion. Currently, The Fairy Godmother does not have an advertising campaign and is relying solely on word-of-mouth promotion. The owner decided to move the company online and pursue a more active involvement in marketing with the hope of raising awareness and boosting sales. The owner had not considered going online with The Fairy Godmother until a former customer recently contacted her from Georgia. The former customer was in need of a new drag show costume. The customer had himself measured and then communicated with the Fairy Godmother via phone and email. The communications included pictures, sizing, fabric, and style preferences. With the all of these necessary pieces, the owner created and shipped her first non-local order. This transaction went very smoothly. The customer received the order within the given time parameters; furthermore, it was exactly the style he requested and the clothes fit perfectly. This customer was approached by several co-workers about the new costume. He gave them The Fairy Godmother’s contact...
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...Many people know of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes of their childhoods. Though when people think of these tales and rhymes, they don’t think about plagues, wars, sieges, or of walking on glass. But by shedding light on the hidden facts and meanings of these stories, people can be better educated of the stories and rhymes they thought they knew. An example to start with is Cinderella she had to pick beans and lentils out of the ashes to get her meals. With Miss Mary Mack it’s believed it was an African-American spiritual for children and in The Little Mermaid every step she takes it feels like walking on glass. So now people will know the true meanings and stories they thought they knew, and will never tell their kids again. First off is Cinderella and Snow White, these stories were both written by the Brothers Grimm and later published by...
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...class (peasants) triumphing over the higher class (nobles). In their original versions, most folk tales are not children's stories because of the violent nature of the story. Most folk tales come from true stories with tragic endings or violent and horrific events. For example, the “humpty dumpty” story was about a man who tried to commit suicide several times and succeed at the end. Also the “little red riding hood” story masked the ending of little red riding hood falling victim to a rapist. Unlike a folk tale which has cultural background, a fairy tale involves magic and fantasy. Examples of fairy tales are, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, “Beauty and the beast”, and Disney’s “Cinderella”. Usually fairy tales include fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, gnomes, and talking animals. Since folktales usually mirror the values and culture of the society from which they originated, a fairy tale can be a folk tale. In essence a fairy tale can also be a subgenre or genre of a folktale. Up until 1450 folktales were passed on orally, so not all folktales were the same. Because Folktales have been told by so many different people there were many different versions. In 1450 the printing press was invented and the folk stories were written in books. People around the world began to put more of their efforts in recording their cultural history by collecting regional folktales into books. That’s how our wonderful folktales from the 17, 18th, and 19th centuries emerged. There are three...
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...hopeful end of every fairy tale. Stories of a damsel in distress, waiting for her Prince Charming to make her the woman she knows she can be. A wife, a mother, a princess perhaps. Mothers and fathers read these stories to their children in storybooks every night before bed, leaving their daughters to dream about someday finding a prince charming of their own and indeed, living happily ever after just like mommy and daddy. However, not all “happily ever-afters” are quite so sweet. My life has been surrounded by not so happily ever afters. The adult relationships in my family have typically ended in divorce, betrayal, and abandonment, leaving the women of my family on their own. However, unlike the princesses in fairytales, these women are not waiting for their true Prince Charming to come and find them so they can be taken care of for the rest of their lives. They work hard every day to make a happily-ever-after of their own; on their own. Throughout the years of my life I have watched the women in my family create lives for themselves without their Prince Charming swooping her up onto his horse bringing her back to his castle to live a life of happiness, love, and prosperity. My mother, a single mother at the age of 21, stuck with a job that she hated and a two-bedroom that houses herself and her small daughter, managed to turn her life around. She went back to school at age 25 and started her own business, which is still successful to this day. My Godmother, who takes the role...
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...finest fashions one sister stating "I will wear my red velvet suit with French trimming." (Perrault). They went to these lengths so they could represent themselves as wealthy and therefore worthy for the prince. While Cinderella, who has nothing of value is left behind unable to go because of this socioeconomic division. Marxist state that one simply cannot jump ranks of class, and Cinderella has an internal realization of this knowing that it would be a fruitless endeavor. Cinderella, powerless on her own, is only able to go to the ball because of the help she receives from her fairy godmother. She is given a horse drawn carriage along with willing coachmen, footmen, and an exquisite dress made from “cloth of gold and silver, all beset with jewels” (Perrault). The small animals that are transformed have their freedom disregarded and become willing servants of the more powerful Fariy Godmother. Once Cinderella arrives at the ball she is believed to be a real princess based on the way she arrives and how she is dressed. Cinderella does not...
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...She is their household slave. Until one day her family leaves to go to Prince Charming’s ball and Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother gives her a dress and all the other ball necessities until midnight. At the ball, the prince is captivated by Cinderella’s beauty and dances with her the entire night. However, she has to leave before the clock strikes midnight and in her hurry, she loses one of her glass slippers. Prince Charming then tries to find the mystery girl by making every woman in the kingdom try on the slipper. Surprisingly, he succeeds. They get married and live Happily Ever...
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...Great Expectations and Fairy tales Tolkien describes the facets which are necessary in a good fairy tales as fantasy, recovery, escape, and consolation - recovery from deep despair, escape from some great danger, but most of all, consolation. Speak- ing of the happy ending,�all complete fairy stories must have it�However fantastic or terrible the adventure, it can give to child or man that hears it,�a catch of breath, a beat and lifting of the heart near to tears. (Uses of Enchantment, pg.143) Great Expectations shares many of the conventions of fairy tales. The one dimensional characters, the use of repetition, and the evil women seem to make the similarities strikingly strong. However, are they strong enough to conclude that it is indeed a fairy tale? It can not be ignored that it also falls short on some important areas, such as the traditional fairy tale ending. Is there enough evidence to classify it either way? Fairy tales have characters of complete good or complete evil. There are no characters who posses both of these qualities. In reading Great Expectations it is plain to see that there is indeed total goodness and total evil. This can be seen in many of the characters. There is no goodness to be found in Orlick. He plays the role of the bully. His hot temper results in the near death of Mrs. Joe and in the near death of Pip. Compeyson is another who has no goodness to be found in him. He is full of evil and hate. It was said that "He had no more heart than...
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...sitting near the chimney, because that was the only place that she could be totally by herself. The stepsisters teased her and renamed her Cinderella. The king announced a ball to find a wife for his son. Cinderella helped the two stepsisters get ready and got nothing in return. There came a point where she couldn’t take it anymore and she started to cry, at that moment her godmother showed up to help her with what she really wanted. She was going to go to the ball. Since her godmother was a fairy, she transformed a pumpkin from the garden into a carriage, six mice into horses, a rat for the coachman, and six lizards for six footmen. Lastly, she made Cinderella a beautiful gold and silver gown embroidered with jewels and a pair of glass slippers to complete the look. Cinderella left for the ball knowing that she must be back by midnight because all the spells would wear off and everything would change back. Cinderella was the prettiest girl at the ball. When the prince saw cinderella he fell in love with her. There was another ball the next day and he begged her to come back. With help from her fairy godmother, Cinderella returned to the ball. She was having such a good time with the prince that she lost track of time and believed the bell of midnight was only for eleven. She instantly jumped up and left the ball as her clothes turned back into her present clothes, leaving behind one of the glass slippers. The prince needed to find the girl again. He made a gentleman go out to take...
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...finding her prince charming. There are more than 1500 different versions of “Cinderella” from cultures all over the world. The story of Cinderella has been in existence since 1865 and published by George Routledge. This fairy tale is one of the oldest and most familiar to young children that inspire them to believe anything is possible. The literary elements in Cinderella include the setting, characters, plot, conflict, climax, and ending. The setting was in a faraway kingdom a long time ago. The characters included a young girl name Cinderella, her stepmother, two stepsisters, the prince, and fairy godmother. The Plot of this fairy tale is a young girl who is being treated unfairly, but dreams of finding her true love. She is being mistreated by her stepmom and sisters and works as a maid in the home. Cinderella begs to go to a ball and is told she could go after all chores are completed. Once she completes the chores and finds a dress, she is maliciously attacked by her stepsisters and destroys her dress. Cinderella was shattered and thought she would never recover from this. The conflict in this story is the continual dislike from the stepmother and stepsisters against Cinderella. The climax is so exciting in this story. After Cinderella meets her fairy godmother, she dresses her in a beautiful gown and sends her to the ball, Cinderella forgets about the time and at 12:00 midnight her fantasy is over. She runs out of the ball and leaves her glass slipper. The prince is searching...
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...page is something called a Medi-Talker. It is perfect for me so I print out the page for it and bring it home. Once I got to Mrs. V’s house I point to my backpack and she opens it and looks over the papers and shows them to mom. Once mom gets home she looks at the papers and once she decides that it is perfect for me she orders it online. It finally arrives on the Wednesday before Christmas. Once I opened it Mrs. V helped me program lots of words and sayings into it. The next day I showed up at school and showed everyone my new computer they were so surprised that it talked everybody crowded around my desk like they did for Rose. About a month after I got the Medi-Talker it was time for the Whiz Kids Competition. We all took tests to see who would make it even I took the test. After about 50 questions later I printed out the results and gave them to him. He was surprised that I took the test but he didn’t say anything. After he graded the tests he announced the highest scorers it was Paula, Claire, Rose, and Connor, but the person that got every question right was Melody Brooks. I got every question right I was so proud of myself, but everyone else wasn’t. They all thought my brain was messed up like the rest of me. Even Mr. Dimmings thought I was messed up too. When Catherine called Mrs. V and told her what happened Mrs. V told me we were going to study everything from geography, math, science, and language arts. We started studying and I learned so much like insects are arthropods...
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...charge and the painful ambiguities inherent in its original form. References to such moral children's tales as Sandford and Merton indicate that, in his mind, there was no serious distinction between adult and adolescent morality, and that, like his acquaintance, Hans Christian Andersen, he used one to reinforce the other. . . . [At times] the fairy tale is of structural importance, as the Cinderella fable is for Great Expectations. Pip starts his career in a low state before a forge (if not a hearth), and, by the aid of a supposed fairy godmother, achieves a high station. Because Dickens means to convert the fable to a Christian purpose, Pip must relinquish the glass slipper of pride (a showy, but impractical item), and return to ordinary, but ennobled circumstances, freed from the fairy-tale illusions that have so long misled him. It is worth noting that Great Expectations is also a Christian tale, opening on Christmas eve, partly located in a manger-like forge, and progressing to a symbolic crucifixion (Pip's wounded hands, symbolic illness, and resurrection). The child's fairy tale has been merged with what Arnold described as the adult's fairy tale, and the models of Cinderella and Christ confused, with all the aesthetic fascination of the storybook figure, but also with the moral power of the divinity. Biblical parable...
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...For most little girls, growing up wishing to become a princess and finding their Prince Charming is nothing out of the ordinary. From the very first Disney princess movies in the early 1900s, young girls are portrayed naturally falling in love with the princess characters. However, the fairy tale ideals these movies contain are only in place to mask the negative impact that they are actually having on young girls. For years these movies have been teaching girls to be sweet, emotional and a damsel in distress so that their Prince Charming will fall in love with them and save them from danger. This trend is shown in multiple Disney princess movies where the princesses are dependent on their prince, these insecure and naïve princesses are not the role models that young girls...
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...The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats was written in 1819 and contains 42 stanzas of what one can deduce is a romantic love story, but John Keats includes more than just this generic genre. John Keats suggests that by utilizing and then complicating “fairytale” conventions we can distinguish an ambiguous relation to mortality. This relationship to mortality can be seen in the different characters, Porphyro and Madeline’s relationship, and at the ending of this particular literature. Not only does this literature have a general fairytale plot, but conventions such as "hoodwinked with faery fancy," (stanza 8), "Thou must hold water like a witch’s sieve,/ And be liege-lord of all the Elves and Fays…," (stanza 14), or “…tis an elfin-storm from faery land…” (stanza 39) are used to imply that this story has a fairytale nature. On the other hand, if we take a closer look at John Keats’s work, we see lots of “dark” imagery that leads us to ponder the topic of mortality. This underlying relation to mortality can be glimpsed when we examine some of the different characters. The characters in this tale can be easily correlated to characters found in a standard fairytale. For example your hero is Porphyro. He is the protagonist in this tale and has to persevere to win a fair maiden’s heart (Madeline being the fair maiden). The fairytale genre is shown because we assume Porphyro is a good, noble guy. Many people argue he is not because of the wording Keats uses that implies Porphyro is not...
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...the children, he continued capturing the animals knowing that these animals could kill him. * Cleverness - The title said it all, in the selection Anansi was clever enough to capture the harmful animals. IV. Literary Genre Fable usually features animals that behave and speak as human beings, told in order to highlight human follies and weaknesses. The selection is a Fable because it has animals as characters. V. Plot/Summary One day Anansi saw that the children was bored, he said that he needs to tell those children stories to prevent them from getting bored. So he decided to go to Nyame, the sky God to buy the wooden box of stories from him. The price were Onini the python, Osebo the leopard, Mmoboro the hornet and Mmoatia the fairy. He immediately went to the house of Onini and said that his wife told him that the stick is longer than Onini. So Onini laid beside the stick and Anansi covered him with his silk and brought him to Nyame. Next was Osebo, Anansi made a trap and it succeeded. Anansi helped Osebo get out from the trap but it was just an act, when Osebo got out he spun around the tree until he was completely trussed then Anansi quickly wrapped his silk around the leopard and brought it to Nyame. Anansin then poured the water over the hornets’ nest and offer them to stay inside his calabash but Anansi covered the hole so that the hornets can’t get out and bought them to...
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...real Cinderella. But they also have several differences, “The Little Glass Slipper” had a godmother to grant her wishes and “Cinderella-Brother’s Grimm” had a tree on her mom’s grave that granted her wishes. Both “Cinderella- Brothers Grimm” and “The Little Glass Slipper” have many similarities and differences in the setting, characters, and plot. In “The Little Glass Slipper” it says, “It happened that the king's son...
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