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...

“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...

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...