Fairy Tales

I’m curious what everyone ended up picking as the topic for their review.  I’m going to write about “The Bloody Chamber” since it seemed like one of the more substantiative pieces, and I also thought it would be interesting to compare it with “Bluebeard.”  It seemed hard to write the pre-Draft for this because there [...]

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 [...]

Hi all,
I’m writing about the gore in the Grimms Tales, and how it may have related to nationalism.  It’s been easy to suggest things, but I’m having trouble finding any really convincing links between the two.  I think, however, that this might be unavoidable – everything on a subject like this will be conjecture – [...]

I just got on and have about two minutes to do this…  One idea would be to write about the various skins (donkeyskin, leatherskin, etc) that Cinderella wears, how they represent the other elements of the story, cinderella’s character, etc.- perhaps the dresses could be tied into this?