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This document analyzes and summarizes the story "The Prince and the Servants" by Jane Rollason. It finds that the prince's quest to marry the princess was motivated by a desire to obtain another kingdom rather than romance. It also notes that the female characters, the queen and princess, are depicted in a more negative or one-dimensional way compared to the complex male characters. The analysis concludes that the story reflects common imbalances in how fairytales portray men and women, and that children's literature should strive for more gender equality in characters.

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Generalization

This document analyzes and summarizes the story "The Prince and the Servants" by Jane Rollason. It finds that the prince's quest to marry the princess was motivated by a desire to obtain another kingdom rather than romance. It also notes that the female characters, the queen and princess, are depicted in a more negative or one-dimensional way compared to the complex male characters. The analysis concludes that the story reflects common imbalances in how fairytales portray men and women, and that children's literature should strive for more gender equality in characters.

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GENERALIZATIONS…

Literature primarily informs us about human experiences, and as such, it aids


in our understanding of ourselves, others, and the world. In this sense, literature is
very important to people, particularly young children and adolescents who are still
very new to the world. The Oxford dictionary defnes literature as "written works,
especially those thought to be of outstanding or enduring artistic merit." Children
and adolescent literature, or merely children's literature, are high-quality trade
books for children aged birth to adolescence that cover topics of relevance and
interest to those children through prose and poetry, fction and non-fction
(Tomlinson & Lynch-Brown, 1996).
This literary paper was able to achieve its overall goal thanks to the group's
collaboration and massive amount of teamwork, which was to classify the fctive
elements contained in the story, showcase the true personality and motives of the
characters included in it, reject the depiction of romance in the story, and reveal the
prejudiced characterization of female characters. It can defne the story's sources,
as well as its history and where and which book/s infuenced it, until it achieves its
amended and fnal form in the present. Whereas its relative methodologies in
connection to its execution involve analysis utilizing modules and learning resources
given as a foundation while actually paying attention to its elements of fction
present in it.
For the fctive elements, it is discovered to be a fairy tale story, with
backdrop settings, containing diverse characters from major to minor ones,
presence of indirect characterizations in terms of its speech, thoughts, efects on
others and their action, application of Freytag's pyramid, has themes associated in
terms of family, values, attitudes, and many others, character vs. character confict,
attuned to Chronological Plot, particularly, the Progressive Plot.
"The Prince and the Servants," by Jane Rollason, is not a completely fairytale-
like story, but it is still appropriate for both children's and adolescent literatures
because it has real-life implications that make it meaningful for its readers of any
age. It would be a driving force for them to recognize that "not all fairytales
consisting of princes and princesses falling in love and living happily together in the
latter portion" is certifably accurate because life has countless lessons to teach in
order to be erudite about the actual characteristics of people, notably those in the
guise of their deceptions.
With a thorough understanding of the entire story, it is discovered from the
entirety of this literary paper that the prince is a prince in disguise who isn't really
pursuing the princess for romantic purposes but due to his opportunistic mindset on
being able to obtain another kingdom considering that their kingdom is described as
being located in a small country and governed by a poor king from the beginning of
the story (his father). As a result, he may have been exhausted by the way they
lived, so he devised wise plans along his journey on how to overcome the tests and
obtain the princess.
Even though the author is a woman, women in the story are given lesser
emphasis and are mentioned less frequently than men. The queen is simply bad
and envious in the story, whereas her daughter, the princess, is kind and beautiful
but also lonesome. Aside from those characterizations, nothing else was provided to
adequately describe them. Men were the story's main protagonists and supporting
characters, from the prince to his father to his servants. . It thus bears similarities to
popular fairytales such as Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel, and The Little
Mermaid, in which men all have positive traits while women have negative sides
and antagonistic behaviors and roles played. As a result of the imbalance in how
fairytales are constructed, the author is attempting to demonstrate implicitly
through her piece that there should be an occurrence of gender equality even in
literary piece/s, particularly children's and adolescent's literature.

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