The Six Darkest Fairy Tales: Gruesome, Gory And Grown-up Stories

Written by Ayça
Thought fairy tales were all pampered princesses and happily-ever-afters? Think again. The original versions of some of our best-loved fairy tales are a far cry from their Disney versions. We’ve glossed over the true nature of these nursery songs and bedtime stories for the best part of a century - so here are the darkest fairy tales from the bookshelf revealed.
 
LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
Charles Perrault, 1697
Today we’re more familiar with the Brothers Grimm version of this tale, where a girl and her grandmother are gobbled up by a wolf, but rescued by a huntsman. In Charles Perrault’s original, there is no happy ending. In this version, the little girl is a well bred young lady who is given false instructions by the wolf when she asks the way to her grandmothers. Foolishly riding hood takes the advice of the wolf and ends up being eaten. And here the story ends. There is no woodsman – no grandmother – just a fat wolf and a dead Red Riding Hood. The moral to this story is to not take advice from strangers.


 

 RAPUNZEL
Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de la Force, 1698
The original story, Persinette was penned by French noblewoman – and royal mistress – Mademoiselle de la Force. Persinette was kidnapped at birth by a fairy, who locked her in a tower with all the things she could ever wish for. The fairy was her only visitor and, as the tower had no stairs, she climbed Persinette’s long hair whenever she visited her.
However, a prince sees Persinette, climbs up her hair to the tower, seduces her and she falls pregnant. When the fairy discovers her swollen belly she banishes Persinette. The next time the prince visits, he finds the fairy in the tower who blinds him. The lovers eventually find each other and the prince’s sight is restored by Persinette’s tears.


 GOLDILOCKS AND THREE BEARS
Robert Southey, 1837
In this heart warming tale, we hear of pretty little goldilocks who finds the house of the three bears. She sneaks inside and eats their food, sits in their chairs, and finally falls asleep on the bed of the littlest bear. When the bears return home they find her asleep – she awakens and escapes out the window in terror. The original tale (which actually only dates to 1837) has two possible variations. In the first, the bears find Goldilocks and rip her apart and eat her. In the second, Goldilocks
jumps out of a window when the bears wake her up. The story ends by telling us that she either broke her neck in the fall, or was arrested for vagrancy and sent to the “House of Correction”.


　

SNOW WHITE
The Brothers Grimm, 1812
In the tale of snow white that we are all familiar with, the Queen asks a huntsman to kill her and bring her heart back as proof. Instead, the huntsman can’t bring himself to do it and returns with the heart of a boar. Now, fortunately disney hasn’t done too much damage to this tale, but they did leave out one important original element: in the original tale, the Queen actually asks for Snow White’s liver and lungs – which are to be served for dinner that night! Also in the original, Snow White wakes up when she is jostled by the prince’s horse as he carries her back to his castle in the Grimm version, the tale ends with the Queen being forced to dance to death in red hot iron shoes!


HANSEL AND GRETEL
The Brothers Grimm, 1812
In the widely known version of Hansel and Gretel, we hear of two little children who become lost in the forest, eventually finding their way to a gingerbread house which belongs to a wicked witch. The children end up enslaved for a time as the witch prepares them for eating. They figure their way out and throw the witch in a fire and escape. In an earlier French version of this tale (called The Lost Children), instead of a witch we have a devil. Now the wicked old devil is tricked by the children (in much the same way as Hansel and Gretel) but he works it out and puts together a sawhorse to put one of the children on to bleed (that isn’t an error – he really does). The children pretend not to know how to get on the sawhorse so the devil’s wife demonstrates. While she is lying down the kids slash her throat and escape.



THE LITTLE MERMAID
Hans Christian Andersen, 1836
The 1989 version of the Little Mermaid might be better known as “The big whopper!” In the Disney version, the film ends with Ariel the mermaid being changed into a human so she can marry Eric. They marry in a wonderful wedding attended by humans and merpeople. But, in the very first version by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid sees the Prince marry a princess and she despairs. She is offered a knife with which to stab the prince to death, but rather than do that she jumps into the sea and dies by turning to froth.
 

NOTES

http://www.history.com/news/the-dark-side-of-the-grimm-fairy-tales

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/index2.html

http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/the-eight-darkest-fairy-tales#image-rotator-1

Top 8 Villains in Literature

Written by Ayça

The fictional villains! We love to hate!
Love them or hate them, villains provide some of the most memorable characters in Literature.



Lord Voldemort(Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling)
In the series, Voldemort is the archenemy of Harry Potter.Voldemort’s obsession with blood purity He hates Muggle. He wants to conquer both worlds(Muggle and wizarding) for achieve pure-blood dominance. Like most archetypical villains, Voldemort’s arrogance leads to his downfall. He also suffers from a pathologial fear of death, which he regards as a shameful and wicked human weakness.



Joker (Batman by Bob Kane & Bill Finger & Jerry Robinson)
The Joker is archenemy of the superhero Batman,having been directly responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman’s life, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon and the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin. Joker has subsequently appeared in television programs, films, games, and on a variety of merchandise. Originally he introduced as a psychopath with a warped, sadistic sense of humor.



Darth Vader (Star Wars by George Lucas)
Darth Vader (born Anakin Skywalker) is the central character of the Star Wars saga. His face is covered with a mask, which has a helmet on top. Because he was badly burned when he caught fire in Revenge of the Sith. He has a personality disorder. He is also the father of both Luke Skywalker and Princess Leila, the two of the main protagonists of the original trilogy.



Dracula(Dracula by Bram Stoker)
Dracula is described as an archetypal vampire. Some aspects of the character are inspired by the 15th century Romanian general and Wallachian Prince Vlad Tepes the Impaler who was also known as “Dracula.” The character appears frequently in  popular culture from films.



The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis )
She is also physically powerful and amazonian, capable of breaking iron with her bare hands and lifting human beings off their feet. She retains her superhuman strength in other worlds.



The Queen (Snow White by Brothers Grimm)
The Queen, often referred to as the Evil Queen, is a main antagonist in Snow White. The Queen is a spiteful stepmother that is obsessed with being most beautiful in the land. The young princess Snow White makes her envious, and so she concocts several plans to kill the young girl through the use of witchcraft. A driving force behind this is the Queen’s Magic Mirror. The original tale is a lesson for young children against narcissism and pride.



Hannibal Lecter (Red Dragon by Thomas Harris)
Doctor Hannibal Lecter is a fictional serial killer. Lecter eats people.He is also highly intelligent, so that he can talk to people in a way that makes them afraid or disturbed. He considers himself very cultured, and often kills people that he thinks are stupid, annoying, or rude. He is a psychopath.



Queen of Hearts (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll)
She knows as The Red Queen. The Queen is a foul-tempered monarch, that Carroll himself pictured as “a blind fury”. Her most famous line, one which she repeats often, is “Off with their heads!”

Why do we still love Mr Darcy?

Written by Ayça

200 years old and still got it

Next January Pride And Prejudice is two centuries old.

I was 13 when I fell in love with Mr Darcy. Well, of course I have the BBC box set. And I’ve watched it at least 50 times. Those six episodes of absolute genius have got me through illnesses, heartache, snow days and multiple hangovers. And the Keira Knightley film version? Of course, I watched the movie. The book? Absolutely, yes. And the rest of Austen’s offerings? Read and re-read so many times, I carry all her novels around on my iPad.

But, my mild Austen obsession aside, let’s for one moment focus on the greatest victory in her back catalogue: Mr Darcy. A man so proud, so sure of his status, wealth, and position in society. That he felt he couldn’t be seen in company with the poorer Elizabeth Bennet. He takes great pains to keep her vulgar family from his friends.When he can’t deny his feelings any longer,asks her to marry him. Elizabeth rejects him angrily. But he protects her family’s reputation at great cost to himself without the hope of her ever knowing, or reaping any reward. I think this is love.
Two centuries of, Fitzwilliam Darcy is still the man for countless women “definitely would”. Keira Knightley, who played Elizabeth Bennett in the 2005 film version of Pride And Prejudice said, “I think every girl is looking for her Mr Darcy.”
Mr. Darcy always love Elizabeth. This makes him a new sort of hero. When Austen penned Darcy in 1812 she perpetuated the myth that a woman can change a man. Elizabeth makes him a better man. It’s a model for our love stories.So that’s it. A man who is generous and kind-hearted; who can protect, provide and listen, and who is prepared to change. That’s what Darcy stands for.


NOTES
 http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/why-we-still-love-mr-darcy#image-rotator-1

Romantic Lines From Literature

Written By Ayça

The Greatest Expressions of Love Ever Written
Autumn has arrived. The air smells like a love song.We chose the classic literature of several parts. Let’s start to read.

 
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

 
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
“To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life.”


The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
"I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who’s ever lived: I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough."


Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."


North And South by Elizabeth Gaskell
"All this gladness in life, all honest pride in doing my work in the world, all this keen sense of being, I owe to her!" And it doubles the gladness, it makes the pride glow, it sharpens the sense of existence till I hardly know if it is pain or pleasure, to think that I said he, stepping forwards with stern determination - "to one whom I love, as I do not believe man ever loved woman before."



The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James
“It has made me better loving you … it has made me wiser, and easier, and brighter. I used to want a great many things before, and to be angry that I did not have them.Theoretically, I was satisfied. I flattered myself that I had limited my wants. But I was subject to irritation; I used to have morbid sterile hateful fits of hunger, of desire. Now I really am satisfied, because I can’t think of anything better.”


Hamlet by William Shakespeare
"Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."


Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
"Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night."


Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”


Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
"It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy; - it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."

NOTES
http://www.goodreads.com
http://www.stylist.co.uk/books/top-50-most-romantic-lines-from-literature

Always books! Read all the time!

Written by Ayça

Autumn has a gloom. Here are books full of gloom!





Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department, armed with a lethal hypodermic, escorted by helicopters, is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve and read books!












Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.
Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: Neverwhere.





                                                                       



Alice in Deadland by Mainak Dhar
Fifteen year-old Alice has spent her entire life in the Deadland, her education consisting of how best to use guns and knives in the ongoing war for survival against the Biters. One day, Alice spots a Biter disappearing into a hole in the ground and follows it, in search of fabled underground Biter bases. What Alice discovers there propels her into an action-packed adventure that changes her life and that of all humans in the Deadland forever. An adventure where she learns the terrible conspiracy behind the ruin of humanity, the truth behind the origin of the Biters, and the prophecy the mysterious Biter Queen believes Alice is destined to fulfill.










Inferno by Dan Brown
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces… Dante’s Inferno.
I really enjoyed this book. I think it’s a bit different than the other previous three books. The other three books have similarities in having a story plot that creating a really blur line between history and fiction. But in this fourth book, the history is like the inspiration of the fiction story.








NOTES
http://www.goodreads.com/

Shingeki no Kyojin! It is an legendary anime!

 

Written by Burcu
Titans. It is like never happened. Anime’s topic may be weird or not believer but drawing is awesome. It feel it happened before like a saga.

 What is this titans? where did they come from?
Humans tries to research about titans. They dont know where they come from or why they attack on humans. titans eats humans but they dont eat for hungry. It is mysterious.

What is the story? Tell!
İts beginining inside of 3 walls. Eren wants to join in exploration team. Because he thinks walls is a cage for humans and he thinks it is normally for discovert the World. He tells to his mother. And she turned to angry When they are eating diner the huge titan breaks Wall. Titans come inside Wall and everybody run away. Mikasa and eren avoid them but his mother’s has no change. Before titan eats mother: she yells ‘run away’. Eren didnt want to go away from his mother but they bring far away. He promised for kill titans. Eren goes a military school. He meets new people and learning difficult thing in life. Everybody see him to like an idiot. Because his goal is big and too difficult. The bad thing started. İn cosplay parties alot people makes cosplay from SnK.

Where do i watch them? It isn’t on television
U can search in uncle Google or u can watch from Turkanime.tv

Century Lie: “I read it, I read it all”

 

Written by Ayça

People say lias about books. They say ”I read it.” in fact they don’t read this books. British newspaper The Guardian, made ​​a survey of 2000 people attended. These are results!

1.1984 - George Orwell (26%)
2.War and Peace (Savaş ve Barış) - Leo Tolstoy (19%)
3.Great Expectations (Büyük Umutlar) - Charles Dickens (18%)
4.The Catcher in the Rye (Çavdar Tarlasında Çocuklar) - JD Salinger (15%)
5.A Passage to India (Hindistan’a Bir Geçit) - EM Forster (12%)
6.The Lord of the Rings (Yüzüklerin Efendisi) - JRR Tolkien (11%)
7.To Kill a Mockingbird (Bülbülü Öldürmek) - Harper Lee (10%)
8.Crime and Punishment (Suç ve Ceza) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (8%)
9.Pride and Prejudice (Gurur ve Önyargı) - Jane Austen (8%)
10.Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (5%)