...Happily ever after doesn't have to mean I do. We are in the middle of a society going through some major changes and among these changes needs to be the end of the institution of marriage. In this day and age divorce rates are reaching 40-50% , 90% of couples describe that they have lost the passion and, in 80% of marriages there has been an affair. Conservationists are arguing that same sex couples are ruining the sanctity of marriage but have we not already done that ourselves? It is time to accept it. It’s just not in our nature to be with someone "forever" and social science is proving this now more than ever. This is not just a recent problem, though; Plato refers to marriage as a "natural enemy" for the "commonwealth". It is time to stop being conditioned by society and ask our self why law is needed to keep people together if it’s such a natural act. What is the proof to this inhumanity you might ask? Well in America there is a divorce every 13 seconds, which is 6,646 divorces per day with divorce rates reaching as early stated 40-50% with those who do remain married describing themselves as unhappy. Those who disagree with this put forth that this is because of young people getting married who do not know what they are doing, but, the average age of couples going through divorce is 30 years old. There is then the fact that first time marriages have a 41% chance of permanent separation and it only gets worse from there with 60% chances for second time and, a 73% chance...
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...“And they lived happily ever after….” The 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...
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...“children’s story” Also, she the setting of the story in a good neighborhood, just people trying to be safe and you could kind of tell reading into the story a little disaster is coming, it is nothing brutal but it works for a children’s story type of theme. A fairy tale genre always ends up kind of automatically clashing with children’s stories. Gordimer is using a fairytale by saying in “For when they began to live happily ever after they where warned by that wise old witch, the husbands mother, not to take anyone of the street” This sentence right here is kind of what you get out of a fairytale genre and a children’s story genre. When they mention “happily ever after” You usually hear that phrase all the time in childrens stories or children type of things. For example: when you are watching a disney movie, which is a children’s story theme/fairytale theme, you hear them say at the end of every movie with either that very deep or very high voice, or an old lady and they all say the same phrase after everything is done “and they lived happily ever after” Gordimer was using phrases so he could ease in too articulating monsters with a suburban family by mentioning the title phrase named “Once upon a time” just like...
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...Samantha Rodriguez English 101 Mrs.Sonnier October 30, 2015 Happily Never After When most people hear about the story of Cinderella, the first thing that pops into their head is the animated movie Disney had created. They think about the poor servant girl who was dressed in nothing but rags who cleaned the entire house and was mocked by her cruel step sisters and step mother. As the story continues, Cinderella then receives help from her fairy god mother and ends up at the ball where she meets her prince. The animated Disney version had become a big hit towards younger children because of the moral lessons they receive at the end of the movie. When kids think about Cinderella all they believe and see are the good things that can happen to them. They see the little mice and the happy ending where Cinderella marries the prince and they live happily ever after. This story was originally created by a man called Charles Perrault. Little do they know that there are multiple stories about Cinderella, some even containing violent and aggressive behaviors unsuitable for a child to hear. For example another version of Cinderella was made by Jacob and Wilhelm Grim which told the tale the same exact way as Charles Perrault, the only difference was that the step sister’s eyes were plucked out by birds at the end of the story for treating Cinderella badly in the beginning. Also, before Cinderella was revealed the step sisters were so desperate to be with the prince that they ended up...
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...inception in 1923. Instilled the idea of “happily ever after” to all the little girls in urban cities, bred the idea of prince charming and one true love from the tender age of 3.Now in 2015, after 90 years, it has successfully turned into an American pop culture icon. People instinctively associate Disney with American dream and the princess they created with our own life. Childhood is a time when most of our characters are built. It is the crucial time when the very essence of our own individuality materializes. And every child act like a sponge, they devour every last bit of info thrown at them and assemble themselves accordingly. The mere impact of Disney can simply predicted by the annual revenue generated annually which is 48.8 million USD in 2014 alone. The focus of my research would be how Disney has impacted our characters over the years. The ripple effect it has into our life goals, expectations and aspirations. Due to globalization, the scenario in urban cities of our own country in no different, except for the lower class of our society and those who cannot afford a TV, Disney has almost affected every working class of our society. And Bangladeshi young girls are no different from western suburban teenagers. They, too grow up watching Cinderella losing her glass shoe, Prince charming rescuing Aurora and Snow White living happily ever after. In the façade of innocent entertainment, girls learn that they “deserve” a happily ever after and they need a man to complete/rescue...
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...fought over it, while friendships began and have ended because of this concept. However what exactly is love, and why is it important to define this mystery? Are we all slaves of our own minds centered around our physical reactions, or we do we fall in love in the philosophical term? Philosophers have been asking questions such as “why do we need to love” or “what love is” since the beginning of time. When I was younger my mother would read me fairy-tale bed time stories or tales about a Prince Charming rescuing a beautiful process, with the two of them riding off on a horse into the sunset, to live “happily ever after”. However the story always ended there, and the idea of a happily ever after life is never fully described. With the increased divorce rates, and the changing concept of marriage in today’s society, the importance of studying the idea of love, or a happily ever after cannot be ignored....
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...and good triumphing over evil to automatically attract the eyes of young children. Disney uses these symbols and images to create those concepts so at that moment a little girl or boy who sees the cover of that movie immediately begin to beg their parents to get them that movie. In this paper I will be analyzing the movie cover of Disney’s Aladdin. To see how Disney uses their covers you have to know what story is being told. In movie Aladdin, Aladdin is poor boy who lives on the streets but dreams of living in the royal palace. One day in the market he meets a girl and who he instantly falls in love with, and shortly after finds out that she is the Princess of Agrabath. Knowing that Jasmine and he could never be together unless he was a prince, Aladdin gets the help of his friends Abu, Genie and the magic carpet. They help Aladdin achieve his happily ever after with the princess and avoid Jefar and his parrot Iago’s evil plans to take over the palace and marry Jasmine. All of this is represented on the cover of this movie which effectively draws the eyes of young viewers. One of the biggest desires young children have is to see how good will...
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...“And they lived happily ever after.” Sounds great, right? Well, that isn’t what happened in the Greek myth Orpheus and Eurydice. Eurydice, Orpheus’ wife, was tragically bitten by a snake soon after they got married. When she died she went to the Underworld like, according to the Greek legends, all other people. Orpheus, who happened to have the convenient talent to play the most beautiful music possible, was bereft – so he decided to go get her back from Hades. Consequently, he was able to use his music to bribe all the guards into letting him through and made it to the king and queen of the Underworld. Upon arrival, Orpheus sang a song to Hades and Persephone (the rulers of the Underworld and it’s inhabitants), which was so compelling...
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...Politically Correct Cinderella We all know the story about Cinderella who starts out by being simple farm girl. And of course we also know the evil stepmother and stepsisters, and the fairy good mother. We also know about the ending where Cinderella gets the beautiful prince and they lived happily ever after. There is also another version of the story. Politically Correct Cinderella is the funnier and modern parody of the Traditional Cinderella story. Politically Correct Cinderella written by James Finn Garner in 1981. In this essay I’m going to analyze the Politically Correct Cinderella story, and then compare it to the traditional Cinderella story, and finally end it by relating to the concept of “political correctness”. The Politically Correct Cinderella has the main plot as the traditional Cinderella Story. It’s about Cinderella whose birthmother had died when Cinderella was just a child, and then her father married the evil stepmother, with the evil stepsisters. But this story is written in a different way. An example could be the language: when he writes woman he write it like this: “wommon or womyn” – in this case I believe it is to keep it more correctly. It is also to see it from a feminist point of view, which change the way we perceive the story. The fairy good person is a man here, which makes it a lot weirder for us, because the fairy good mother was one of the central characters in the story we became familiar with. Just as we are used to the fairy good person...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Part 1 - The Wedding Day I know I'm not the only one who wishes her wedding to be her best day ever. Since I was a kid I always dream that my wedding will be as beautiful like Cinderella's or Airel's. Imagining that I will have my own prince charming, my happily ever after But I woke up one day realizing that life isn't a fairytale. It doesn't goes to your plans, you can't have your prince charming and some-times it's not a happily ever after. I realized it when my parents business start dropping, when we start moving out of our own castle. I used to have my prince charming, I used to imagine my dream wedding day with him and my happily ever after with him But I was wrong, as I said life isn't a fairytale, I can't marry my prince charming. And my wedding day, isn't as beautiful like Cinderella's Because today's supposed to be my best day ever. Today it supposed to be the start of my happily ever after. But again I was wrong, I don't have the fancy dress, I don't have my prince charming by my side, I'm not inside a church but in front of a judge. God was supposed to be our witness, he was supposed to be the one that will tie us. But it doesn't goes to my way again, today there's only a judge and a piece of paper in front of me. I'm...
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...William Shakespeare wrote in 1954 Romeo and Juliet and The West Side Story was written by Arthur Laurents in 1961. Both stories are about two star crossed lovers from different groups who dispices each other. Romeo loves Juliet but she is from the Capulet family and he is from the Montage family. Tony loves Maria but she is Puerto Rican and he is white. Both couple define the common stereotypes and secretly meet each other. Eventually these meetings lead to Romeo, Juliet, and Tony dieing. Both stories feather similar conflicts with similar outcomes. Both of their lives were forbidden, they lost people close to them, and neither of the couple got to live happily ever after. In the West side story Maria is a young Puerto Rican girl who is...
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...Let me tell you the tale of the amazing Trickster. He is a powerful being who can alter reality in a finger snap and there is barely anything in the world that can kill him. One day there was two brothers who were walking and the reason they were was because they were going to their new nice house they bought in North America. Originally they were from Canada and the reason they wanted to leave Canada was they wanted to start a new fresh life in North America. The two brothers names were Michael and Martinez. They were really fine hunters, especially with there knives. When they were walking into their house, the Trickster was on the side walk and made a beam of light from the sky descend onto the brothers which he did by snapping his fingers...
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...magic, Cinderella attends the ball where the Prince dances with her and falls madly in love with the beautiful girl in the glass slipper. At the stroke of midnight, Cinderella flees from the Prince's embrace, accidentally dropped her glass slipper. Distraught at losing the love of his live, the Prince sends an note throughout the kingdom, looking for the owner of the glass slipper. Every young woman in the area is asked to try on the slipper. When the note arrives at Cinderella's house, the stepsisters try the slipper on with no success. Cinderella tries the slipper on and it fits perfectly. She is taken away from her harsh world of her wicked stepmother and sisters and becomes the Prince's wife. Cinderella lives in luxury, happily ever after with her true love. Cinderella is headstrong and independent young girl who doesn’t let her anger and sorrow get the better of...
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...Well once again:) before Julia lived happily ever after with my dearly beloved wifey, she was living i a world born of yarn and cotton~ Little Julia would swing around all day among the cotton trees swinging from yarn vine to yarn vine And the big button of a sun would light up the comfy little world:) One day, she noticed a strange little hole in the fabric of her world>< Julia decides to see if she could mend the hole But just as she went nearer, the hole sucks her in and POOF!! The hole sealed up behind her She was in a dark place as she found herself on a soft landing Somehow the darkness frightened her and she cuddled with the softness of her surroundings and laid there hoping she was in a bad dream Hours passed and soon some clinking noises were heard, much too foreign to Julia's soft fabric ears The lights came up, and she found herself among similar looking monkeys just like her, and it frightened her a little She froze and prayed hard as she had been thrown into a strange new world and feels totally insecure Just then a dashing looking giant came and looked at her gently She could feel something warm in her little cotton heart Feeling secure with the giant she wanted to move and reach out to the giant but somehow she couldnt move a muscle Worried the giant would leave she began to panic To her relief the giant pick her up gently and brought her with him:) she was so relief that she was saved from the strange place and even though she isnt back...
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...There is also a mention of a "Elf Queen" which emphasizes more of a fairy tale. In most cases, all fairy tales have some sort of magical creature such as giants, elves, and centaurs. It makes the story a more pleasant tale to tell. In the Wife's tale she also often mentions how her story ends happily after a compromise is reached with the couple. "... So they lived ever after to the end..." This is the final element that shows that the Wife's tale is in fact, a fairy tale. After the husband gave up all of his power to the marriage, the old woman was no longer a hag, but now "..she was young and lovely, rich in charms." The knight and the woman lived in bliss and peace for the rest of their days which causes the story to be ended in a happy mood and no longer a trap for the knight. The moral of the story ended out to be, that "A woman wants the self-same sovereignty, Over her husband as over her lover, And master him; he must not be above her..". The phrase, "Happy Wife, Happy Life." comes into play in the Wife's tale. She demands and tells the travelers that when she got power over the marriage in her relationship with her five husbands, that there was no longer trouble and they lived happily. If the man does not give over power in the relationship, according to the wife, that it will not be a good...
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