Fairy Tale

The Used Woman — Katelyn Leary

Many of the tropes that we find throughout fairytales have to do with women, and they aren’t positive…

The Loss of a Parent

One of the most popular tropes in fairy tales is the loss of a parent. The role of the parent is one of the most important…

Seven: The Perfect Number of Sins

by Joshua Toback

Royal Transformations

Katie Cox, Ellie Zimmerman and Claire Cromley

Human Sacrifices: Fairy Tale or Real Life?

Rakel Jonsdottir, Kennedy Little and Breanna Mitchell

In fairytales sometimes we see that people are given up as human sacrifices. In “Beauty and the Beast”, Beauty sacrifices her life so her dad will not be killed. Her father…

Sidekicks to the Rescue

In almost every fairy tale from Perrault to the Grimms, the use of animal friends and sidekicks have always seemed to…

The Color Red

The color red shows up in multiple fairy tales and can be interpreted in different ways. In Charles Perrault’s Little Red Riding Hood, the color red represents maturity and beauty. Little Red Riding Hood is a story about a girl who goes into the woods on her own and is almost killed and sexually…

Being Beautiful has its Perks

In “The Ugly Duckling” by Hans Christian Andersen, a duckling is made fun of and teased for the way he looks. He is called ugly by his entire family, including his mother. He is tormented so badly that he runs away and throughout his journey is bullied by other animals and people. He eventually…

The Power of Three

Eleanor Hatch ❈ ENG255 ❈ Jan. 22, 2018

The “rule of three” is a writing principle…