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✴Fairy tale :
A type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments. Fairy tales may be distinguished from other folk narratives such as legends (which generally involve belief in the veracity of the events described) and explicitly moral tales, including beast fables.
✴Happy ending :
An ending of the plot of a work of fiction in which almost everything turns out for the best for the protagonists, their sidekicks, and almost everyone except the villains.
Jacob (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859), were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together specialized in collecting and publishing folklore during the 19th century. They were among the best-known storytellers of folk tales, and popularized stories such as "Cinderella" , "The Frog Prince" , "The Goose-Girl", "Hansel and Gretel" , "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Snow White". Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales, was published in 1812.
A hero (masculine or gender-neutral) or heroine (feminine) is a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or military strength, often sacrificing his or her own personal concerns for some greater good.
✴Grimm's Fairy Tales :
Cinderella
A young orphan girl is left under the protection of her evil step mother and sisters who make her cook and clean. She receives a letter from the palace asking her to attend the prince's ball however the step sisters don't want her to go and rip up her dress. A fairy godmother then appears and gives her a dress and carriage. Cinderella goes to the ball and dances with the prince but must be home for midnight so when the clock strikes 12 she runs out, accidentally leaving a glass slipper behind. The prince picks it up and vows to check every girls foot until he finds the right one. He eventually finds Cinderella and they get married.
Rumpelstiltskin
A husband and wife brag to a king that their daughter can spin straw into gold, so the king marries the daughter, who is just a normal person and cannot spin straw into gold.
So the king locks his now wife in a room with a spinning wheel and a pile of straw, the girl is so upset because I think he is going to kill her or her parents if she can't do it. So a little man shows up, and for her golden necklace, he agrees to spin the straw into gold for her.
The king is very happy so the next night he locks her in the tower with even more straw. Again the little man comes that night and for her wedding ring agrees to spin the straw into gold.
The same thing happens again, the king is so pleased, that he locks her in the tower for a third night with a whole ton of straw. She has no more jewelery to trade anymore so this time she agrees to give the little man her first born child to spin the straw into gold.
All is good and they live happily until eventually she gets pregnant. the little man comes back and lets her know that he will be taking the baby when she gives birth, but makes a deal, if she can guess his name in 3 nights then she can keep her baby.
It takes all three nights and I can't remember who overhears him, but someone over hears the little man dancing and singing his name, Rumpelstiltskin. So it all ends happily ever after because on the third night, she tells him his name and he has to go away empty handed.
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel are initially led into the woods near their home by their father. He takes them there begrudgingly at the request of their mother, who insists she does not have enough money to feed the whole family. After overhearing their parents' plan, Hansel and Gretel devise a plan to leave a trail of bread crumbs in their wake as their father leads them into the woods, so that they might find their way home.
After defeating the witch, the children eventually find their way back to their father's house at the edge of the wood. Their mother has conveniently died in their absence, leaving the children to lead happy lives with their father.
Hansel and Gretel was recently adapted for film in 2013. In the film, the protagonists are portrayed as teenage witch hunters.
Rapunzel
A pregnant woman sends her husband to a witch's garden to pick up some rapunzel since she's craving it, and tells him she'll die without it. The witch catches the husband stealing from her garden, and tells him he can take some but she gets the baby when it's born. The husband agrees, brings it back to his wife.
The baby is born, the witch takes the girl, raises her and has her hair grow very long. When the girl is old enough, the witch locks her in a tower with no exit, and only a window. The only way to get in is by having the girl, Rapunzel, throw down her hair so that the witch can climb it.
One day, a prince comes by and sees the witch climbing the hair into the tower, and after the witch leaves, he calls out, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." She lowers her hair, he climbs up, they have an epic love story -- until the witch finds out; however, this is after the prince got the girl pregnant.
The witch cuts off the girl's hair, and sends her into the wild and then ties the hair up, waits for the prince, and when he's climbing up (thinking it's his lover), she drops the hair -- and the prince. The prince is blinded in the fall, and roams the land in search of Rapunzel.
Eventually, he finds her, and she cries into his eyes. The tears cure him of his blindness. They have twins, and return to his kingdom to live happily ever after.
Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood decides to venture into the woods to visit her sick grandma. on her way she meets wolf and tells him her plans. The hungry wolf races to grandmas house and pretends to be little red riding hood. He devours grandma, dresses in her clothes and gets into the bed. Red arrives to find the door open and her grandma in bed. Oh! grandmother,' she said, 'what big ears you have!''All the better to hear you with, my child,' was the reply. 'But, grandmother, what big eyes you have!' she said.'All the better to see you with, my dear.''But, grandmother, what large hands you have!''All the better to hug you with.' 'Oh! but, grandmother, what a terrible big mouth you have!''All the better to eat you with!'. with that wolf ate little red riding hood. Wolf falls asleep and the huntsman spots his foe and cuts his belly open saving red and her grandma. they fill wolfs belly with stones and he dies when he wakes.
✴Protagonist :
The protagonist or main character is a narrative's central or primary personal figure, who comes into conflict with an opposing major character or force. The audience is intended to mostly identify with the protagonist.
✴Antagonist :
A character, group of characters, institution, or concept that stands in or represents opposition against which the protagonist must contend. In other words, an antagonist is a person or a group of people who opposes a protagonist.
✴Sidekick :
A slang expression for a close companion or colleague (not necessarily in fiction) who is actually, or generally regarded as, subordinate to the one he accompanies.
✴Cannibalism :
The act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings. A person who practices cannibalism is called a cannibal.
✴Villain :
An "evil" character in a story, whether a historical narrative or, especially, a work of fiction. The villain usually is the antagonist, the character who tends to have a negative effect on other characters. A female villain is occasionally called a villainess .
✴One Thousand and One Nights :
A collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories and folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights, from the first English language edition (1706), which rendered the title as The Arabian Nights' Entertainment.
✴Stephen King :
An American author of contemporary horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 350 million copies,many of which have been adapted into feature films, miniseries, television shows, and comic books.
A stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition. Stock characters are archetypal characters distinguished by their flatness. As a result, they tend to be easy targets for parody and to be criticized as clichés.
A Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
An adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold".Treasure Island is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story, and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action.
✴Jekyll& Hyde - Someone Like You
✴Sleeping Beauty- Once Upon a Dream
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