Results for Twists On Traditional Fairytales
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A young kitchen maid working in a castle in the mountains believes a woman seeking refuge one late night is a disguised princess. But as she helps the supposed princess head to the ball to meet her prince, the young maid will need to reckon with the possibility that this is not quite the fairytale she believes it to be.
The three wicked mothers of Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Snow White team up to regain their confidence and exact revenge on the daughters who betrayed them.
An eerie description of characteristic fairy tale elements and how they are embodied in characters.
Asked by his therapist to tell a fable, a man recounts his unenchanting life as a lawyer married to a depressed, drug-abusing woman, with a disabled son he's struggling to raise. By filling his unremarkable story with sorceresses, magic, and true love, he attempts to romanticize a life he's desperate to escape.
A King receives refuses to listen to claims from his barons and other powerful members of his kingdom that his thirty-three daughters are wicked, for they are clever and outspoken, and they work hard to elevate the status of women and the poor, acts which the barons find threatening. When the barons kidnap all thirty-three daughters, the kind but dimwitted king must figure out how to rescue them.
In this modern-day fairy tale, a young female protagonist butts heads with her overly-protective and potentially magically-endowed mother. As she grows up and has children of her own, she begins to understand the lengths that mothers will go to protect their daughters and younger selves.
Eager to get his children to stop fighting, a father tells them a story about dragons and kings; things take a disappointing turn when the children realize that their father doesn't know the end of his own story.
In a dark rendition of Red Riding Hood, a woman bored by village life longs for the dark mystery of the woods and the wolves therein.
A princess prophecied to bring about the downfall of her father, the king, must endure years of hardship and risk everything to be with her one true love.
Fleeing from a queen who intends to kill her, a female-identifying prince takes refuge in the Valley of Wounded Deer and learns to accept her death. Upon her return to the castle, she finds that her allies have other plans in mind.