Fairy Tales

Did anyone else find this story really interesting? It is so different from usual fairy tales, there is not as much bad things happening to people. There is the isolation, but that doesn’t seem as bad because they are not hurt physically. It just dealt so much more with the characters and their imaginations [...]

Is it possible to plagiarize yourself?  If so Peter Shapeley is guilty.  He writes in “Charity, Status and Parliamentary Candidates in Manchester: A Consideration of Electoral and Charity Fields and the Social Basis of Power, 1832-1910″ published in 1999 that:
“Voluntary charities offered such a demonstration of apparent individual values.  This was a period when charity [...]

Wondering how everyone’s essay’s going…  Mine is pretty tough.  The structure, among other things is shaky.  Right now I’m setting up a picture of a specific aspect of Victorian charity – then showing how my tale, “The Happy Prince,” responds / rejects it, then setting up another aspect of Victorian charity and comparing it with [...]

Did anyone else have trouble with tomorrow’s reading? I can’t get through it, it’s so dry. All I got from it was that politics are important in all works, but after that everything stops making sense. Same problem for anyone else?

Hi guys, I’m planning on writing about “Heinrich, or the Love of Gold” as well. I’m planning on focusing on materialism and greed within the working class. The entire tale basically revolves around this theme, so I should be able to do something with it. However, I’m having trouble developing an arguable [...]

Hey guys. I am starting to write my paper, but I also still have a little bit of research to do. I am writing about “Heinrich, or the Love of Gold”. The story itself criticizes  not only the idolatry of gold and money, but (I am hoping) also criticizes the ideas of self help and [...]

I found the readings on race and empire particularly relevant for my topic, and I was wondering if anyone else is looking at something similar. I plan on writing on the economic motives and effects of British imperial expansion, as they relate to “The Prince’s Dream,” which condemns Gold and the pursuit of it as [...]

How is everyone’s research going? I went to the library tonight and actually had some problems despite the instructions we were given in class. My results are really narrow and one of the books i really wanted wasn’t where it was supposed to be. Anyone having better luck than me?

I think I will write about Heinrich or the love of gold and how it relates to the materialism and the shrinking artisan class during the Victorian period. I am little worried about whether or not I will have enough material to fit ten pages. I think I might have to include another fairytale and [...]