Ever After sells the possibility that Cinderella was a completely true fairy tale and reminds growing girls that they don’t need a prince to save them.
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Lots of college stories oddly have children as a focal point.
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This piece continues the exploration of the Mirror Queen’s motifs, or recognizable key pieces that we understand to be from particular stories, her characterization and use of the folkloresque from The Brothers Grimm. The folkloresque is the use of folklore to build fictional worlds; drawing upon elements of an existing story (or in this case,
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The Mirror Queen is a fictional, folkloresque rendering of many fairy tales but her carefully-constructed lore makes her feel real.
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