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Nicholas Graves in Elon’s Fairy Tale Files

The Soldier’s Struggle with PTSD

By: Luke Matthews & Nicholas Graves

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Feminism and Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales have been around for centuries and because of this, there seems to be an evident gap between the…

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The Girl Who is Famous for Sleeping

Film Analysis Written By: Adam Cheifetz, Laura Parrish, Hannah Higgins

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The Pale Man’s Tinderbox

The idea of a grand hall inside a tree from Hans Christian Anderson’s “Tinderbox” aroused my imagination. This is one of the first fairy tales that I read that mentions such a hall. The fairy tale is not very descriptive of the hall except for saying, “a large hall, in which many…

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Brandon Brock in Elon’s Fairy Tale Files

The Missing Father Trope

It is a common trope in most fairy tales where the father is not. very involved in the overall storyline. What is…

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Gabriela de Oliveira in Elon’s Fairy Tale Files

The evil (step)mother

It is very common in fairy tales have an evil character in the story, and several times that character is the…

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Wait. Are You Guys Together?

In the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, a wealthy merchant with 3 sons…

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The Absent Father

It is a common pattern in Fairy Tales that the father of the family plays an absent and rather silent role throughout the…

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Kaliah Alford in Elon’s Fairy Tale Files
Above: The story of “Snow White” written by The Brothers Grimm

The Escalator of Gender Norms

Fairy tales often portray women and girls in a certain way. These portrayals are often a reflection of the…

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The Power of Three

By: Gillian Mullin

(https://oakhouseschool.com/young/the-three-little-pigs/)

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Elon’s Fairy Tale Files
Elon’s Fairy Tale Files
A blog for Elon English 255, based on The Fairy Tale Review’s Fairy Tale Files. All blog written by Elon students studying fairy tales, old and new.
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