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Who is the main character of "Aladdin"?
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Nez</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:45 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Mariposa79 wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">True, but Old School fairytales, Grimms Stories, or Nursery Rhymes were told as bed time stories to teach kids lessons and morals ( whatever what's considered to be moral in that era). Its the use of melodrama, to make the antagonists character obvious on who is bad. You're right they might disguise them as dragons, trolls and witches. Sometimes character profiling could sometimes send out the wrong idea. For example, my godson asks if all step mothers are evil. Not all step mothers are evil. I think I know the reason why they are portrayed to be evil. Maybe because they are the second wife of their husband who had children from a previous marriage. Jealousy could be the issue bc the first wife was the first love and the child could be the make of that first love. So it gives the excuse for the second wife to treat the child rudely and mean because they are not their own. That or the author was going through some childhood issues. <br /> <br />truthfully, that isn't the case for all step mothers.</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Yeah. My oldest sister is having that same problem with Skyler. She loves Skylar, but she's worried that she won't love her the same way and it's harder because her birth mother is still a part of her life.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Mariposa79</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:44 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">True, but Old School fairytales, Grimms Stories, or Nursery Rhymes were told as bed time stories to teach kids lessons and morals ( whatever what's considered to be moral in that era). Its the use of melodrama, to make the antagonists character obvious on who is bad. You're right they might disguise them as dragons, trolls and witches. Sometimes character profiling could sometimes send out the wrong idea. For example, my godson asks if all step mothers are evil. Not all step mothers are evil. I think I know the reason why they are portrayed to be evil. Maybe because they are the second wife of their husband who had children from a previous marriage. Jealousy could be the issue bc the first wife was the first love and the child could be the make of that first love. So it gives the excuse for the second wife to treat the child rudely and mean because they are not their own. That or the author was going through some childhood issues. <br /> <br />truthfully, that isn't the case for all step mothers.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Nez</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 6:39 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Mariposa79 wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Nez wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Riiiiight, Syera Quixote. <br /> <br />It was more or less supporting what Mariposa said and monsters aren't always in the form of dragons or trolls.</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />lol I never saw this until now. <br /> <br />Also they teach you that curiousity will get you in trouble.</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Yeah, but at the same time, a good amount of curiousity can you to adventure and often fortune.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Mariposa79</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:41 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Nez wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Riiiiight, Syera Quixote. <br /> <br />It was more or less supporting what Mariposa said and monsters aren't always in the form of dragons or trolls.</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />lol I never saw this until now. <br /> <br />Also they teach you that curiousity will get you in trouble.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Syera</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:33 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Yeah, yeah, you're just jealous... because unlike you guys, I actually HAVE a windmill in my backyard to attack! <img src="http://www.springhole.net/smileys/swashbuckle.gif" border="0" /> <br /> <br />(Yeah, I know what y'all meant. I was teasing. <img src="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif" alt="Very Happy" border="0" />)</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Nez</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:17 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Riiiiight, Syera Quixote. <br /> <br />It was more or less supporting what Mariposa said and monsters aren't always in the form of dragons or trolls.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Syera</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:15 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Nez wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">G.K. Chesterton said that "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br />I'll keep that in mind. <br /> <br />*Attacks windmill*</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AladdinsGenie</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:18 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">...I like that quote <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Nez</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:55 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">G.K. Chesterton said that "Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Mariposa79</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 12:12 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Ok, I've done research about why fairytales are so grimm. It was a way of telling children the battle between good and evil and the consequences that these characters faced. It's some kind of a form of melodrama because you know who's bad and know who's good. <br /> It gave a lesson to learn from. Some ppl say it's way to make kids behave by telling them these stories.In cinderella, we all know that she married royalty but we don't know the prices that the stepmom paid for being so mean. I've read that the stepmom got her eyes removed by blackbirds. <br />Over centuries, the story has been twisted and changed into the story that is not so gory or grimm into what we all know.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Syera</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 9:17 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span> <table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"> <tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Jazmine wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Woa, WHAT? I have all of the original Grimm's fairy tales (and yes, they ARE unedited), and it doesn't say ANYTHING about Sleeping Beauty getting raped. What whacked-out version are you talking about?</td> </tr> </table> <span class="postbody"> <br />Raped, as in the prince discovered her while she was asleep, fell madly in love/lust with her, made oo-ooh with her, and got her pregnant. She later gives birth to twins, one of whom attempts to suck on her finger, which dislodges the piece of wood from the spindle. <span style="font-style: italic">Then</span> she wakes up. And more stuff happens. <br /> <br />I think it was <span style="font-style: italic">supposed</span> to be romantic, but when you get down to it, it was pretty much rape. <br /> <br />And speaking of the Brothers Grimm, even their stories were mild in comparison to even older variations of the tales they wrote down. <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html" target="_blank" class="postlink">Check out this website for more grisly, gruesome fairytale fun!</a> <br /> <br />A 'rape version' of the story can be found <a href="http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0410.html#basile" target="_blank" class="postlink">here.</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>AladdinsGenie</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:56 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I think there's a version even before the Grimm fairy tales where she does get raped, but she was dead to top it off <img src="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif" alt="Laughing" border="0" /> <br /> <br />Do you still want the link to the story, APK?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Druix</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:44 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Woa, WHAT? I have all of the original Grimm's fairy tales (and yes, they ARE unedited), and it doesn't say ANYTHING about Sleeping Beauty getting raped. What whacked-out version are you talking about?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>APK</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:24 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Disturbing fairytales</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Remember how we discussed the origin of fairy tales and how disturbing they were? (Sleeping Beauty gets raped, etc) I can't find the thread now, but I remember that someone posted a link to a site that had information about that. Does anyone happen to remember that site? Much obliged ^_^</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subBlack/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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