Maleficent - Robert Stromberg (2014); Evil Thing - Serena Valentino (2020); Moon Palace - Paul Auster (1989); Women's Voice and Images in Folk Tales and Fairy Tales - Luma Al-Barazenji (2015) - Women Empowerment

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[...] Orphans in the storm, that kind of thing.' `Exctly.' Document Extract from ResearchGate's article "Women's voice and images i Folk Tales and Fairy Tales' by Luma Al-Barazenji, published in April 2015 The role of women in folktale and fairytale has a pioneering consideration. It presents their effective voices and presence through being queen, princess, maid, stepmother, and witches. Topics like evil and good are discussed prolifically through different female images to legitimize the representation and value of women in many cultures. [...]

[...] The fourth document is an excerpt from an article named Women's voice and images in Folk Tales and Fairy Tales' posted by the website Researchgate, and written by Luma Al-Barazenji in April 2015, describing how women were represented in fiction, and the place of feminism in their stories. Considering the three documents, we can wonder to what extent literature empowers women. We will first discuss the independant side of these female characters, then we will study their strength, and finally their background stories which make them more complex than trditional female characters. [...]

[...] Maleficent - Robert Stromberg (2014); Evil Thing - Serena Valentino (2020); Moon Palace - Paul Auster (1989); Women's Voice and Images in Folk Tales and Fairy Tales - Luma Al-Barazenji (2015) - Women Empowerment Document Maleficent, by Robert Stromberg, May Document Excerpt from "Evil Thing", Serena Valentino "Good afternoon, Cruella, my dear," she said, putting her cheek out for me to kiss it. see you're wearing that red dress again." Pricket to spend a blissful hour with my mama. I was mortified. [...]

[...] A lady is never seen wearing the same dress twice, Cruella." I was livid with Miss Pricket. How could she let this happen? How could she let me wear the same dress twice? "Miss Pricket, would you mind ringing for tea? Then, please, the both of you, do sit down. You're making me nervous hovering around me like a couple of birds." "Of course, your ladyship." Miss Pricket pulled the cord hanging to the left of the fireplace mantel, then sat down in one of the leather chairs across from the couch where Mama and I usually sat. [...]

[...] General Wu was in his last sixties by then, and his days as a man of influence were apparently over. Kitty spent her childhood in Tokyo, was sent to American schools, which accounted for her flawless English . Kitty was just fourteen when she arrives in Massachusetts to enter the freshman class of the Fielding Academy. Given who she was, it did not take her long to fit in and find a place for herself. She acted and danced, she made friends, she studied hard enough to get decent grades. [...]