Essays on Into The Woods

According to Mircea Eliade, fairy tales and mythological stories are “models for human behavior [that,] by that very fact, give meaning and value to life (Bettelheim 35). This lends to the idea that fairy tales and myths, from the beginning, have been used as examples...

For the second outside of class event, I watched the film “Into The Woods.” The film displayed a mix of many fairy tales, but they were side-stories and helped advance the story of the main character. The fairy tales that I recognized were Cinderella, Little...

“Into the Woods” is a beautiful musical written by James Lapin with music by Stephen Sondheim that has a funny and unpredictable twist on childhood fairytales. The show made me laugh, cry, and feel as if I were in the woods with the characters. Through...

Bill Gifford gives account of Chris McCandless’s decision to journey “Into the Wild”, and includes various locations and people he met along the way. After summing up his adventure, Gifford gives justification as to why McCandless was “frightfully unprepared mentally and physically”. He includes McCandless’s...

The author, Krakauer, introduces each chapter with a quote because it gives the reader an understanding of what Chris McCandless read and how he interpreted it. The quotes were all Chris’s favorite authors and they probably impacted the way Chris thought. The quotes makes the...

Why do we fit in? humans go to extreme lengths to feel socially accepted. The current era’s main goal is to be seen as rich, intelligent, and popular. The protagonist, Chris Mccandless manifests the idea of freedom being more important to him than the other...