what's the meaning of "the princess and the pea"?
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princess and the pea is a fairy tale about how scrutinous people can be. a prince wanted to marry a princess, but he wanted to make sure that she was a real princess. one stormy night, a woman knocks on the door of the castle and when the prince opened the door to let her in, she told him that she was a real princess. to test her, the queen removed the beddings on the bedstead and placed a pea. after which, she ordered twenty more mattresses and twenty feather beds on top of it. this was where the princess slept. the next day, the queen checked on her. to her amusement, the princess complained that she could not sleep all night because there was something extremely hard underneath the bed causing her to be bruised all over. the queen knew that only a real princess would be that sensitive. the story ends with the prince marrying the princess and the pea placed in a museum.
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Look - it's a poem about Persephone - the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. If there's an analysis on the web somewhere, you can find it with a google search. Ultimately though, you should be writing your own analysis, shouldn't you? Unless there is the highly unlikely possibility that your teacher wants you to analyze an analysis.
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I think this may be "The BFG (Big Friendly Giant)" by Roald Dahl.   Hope this is the one you're looking for.\n\n:)
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The poem describes the encounter between an unnamed knight and a mysterious fairy. It opens with a description of the knight in a barren landscape, "haggard" and "woe-begone". He tells the reader how he met a beautiful lady whose "eyes were wild"; he set her on his horse and they went together to her "elfin grot", where they began to make love. Falling asleep, the knight had a vision of "pale kings and princes", who warn him that "La Belle Dame sans Merci hath thee in thrall!". He awoke to find himself on the same "cold hill's side" where he is now "palely loitering".\n\nAlthough La Belle Dame Sans Merci is short (only twelve stanzas of four lines each, with an ABCB rhyme scheme), it is full of enigmas. Because the knight is associated with images of death - a lily, paleness, "fading", "wither[ing]" - he may well be dead himself at the time of the story. He is clearly doomed to remain on the hillside, but the cause of this fate is unknown. A straightforward reading suggests that the Belle Dame entraps him, along the lines of tales like Thomas the Rhymer or Tam Lin. More recent feminist commentators have suggested that the knight in fact raped the Belle Dame, and is being justly punished - this is based on textual hints like "she wept, and sigh'd full sore". Ultimately, the decision comes down to whether Keats wrote the poem as a simple story, or as a story with a moral: given his other work, this may be more an evocation of feeling than an intellectual attempt at moralising.
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You gotta kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince.\n \nThats how I interpret it.
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it comes from the fruit "baneberry" which was a poisonous fruit given to enemies in old England.\nThe actual expression is "bane of my life", meaning "he will be the death of me.
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This sentence is standard english.  \n\nSo is the Queen.
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Its a Barbie doll\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002Y0X06/104-3306045-0668748?v=glance\nShe apears at the film the princess and pauper\nIts a female version  The Prince and the Pauper  an 1882 book by Mark Twain that represents his first attempt at historical fiction. The book, set in 1547, tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court, London, and Prince Edward son of Henry VIII of England.
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It is a poem about the comic strip character "Little Lulu".  Specifically the poem is about her buying some ice cream.
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The Prince.  See link for the total context.
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Here's the derivation:\n[Middle English peple, from Old French pueple, from Latin populus, of Etruscan origin.]\n\nHere's what it is:\n1. Humans considered as a group or in indefinite numbers: People were dancing in the street. I met all sorts of people. \n2. A body of persons living in the same country under one national government; a nationality.\n 3. pl. peo·ples A body of persons sharing a common religion, culture, language, or inherited condition of life.\n 4. Persons with regard to their residence, class, profession, or group: city people. \n5. The mass of ordinary persons; the populace. Used with the: "those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes" (Thomas Jefferson).\n 6. The citizens of a political unit, such as a nation or state; the electorate. Used with the.\n 7. Persons subordinate to or loyal to a ruler, superior, or employer: The queen showed great compassion for her people. \n8. Family, relatives, or ancestors.\n 9. Informal Animals or other beings distinct from humans: Rabbits and squirrels are the furry little people of the woods. \n-MM
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It is written like 'Şehrin en iyi çikolatası' in Turkish but if u ask its meaning, I think it means beautiful and sweet girl other than the best chocolate :-)..
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I think it's very pretty. Means "Princess" in Hebrew...a Hebrew name for a Scientologist baby...maybe TomKat is thinking about converting to Kaballah, heh.
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oi it was not feminist. it is a classic work. look into the character of pearl.  both beautiful and worthwhile but very costly.  also look into the preacher's character. try to compare and contrast the daughter with the preacher. talk about the moral views of the time period, and it's effect on this story/characters
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I believe it's Princess
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Animalia\n\nThis is the scientific term for the animal kingdom (hence the hint, "But who is the king?")
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There is a specifc spot in the text that describes Queen Mab 0 it's probably about 50 lines long - she is the queen of dreams, and basically put the equivilant of sleeping dust on sleepers - giving them dreams - but she tries to give them dreams they want, or dreams that willhelp them (eg the solider dreams od battle, so that he wont be scared to fight).  She is tiny, her carriage is some sort if nut i think, like an acorn shell, but it describes it right in the text - this passage is often discussion in reference to fantasy/magic, while the Baz Lurhman version of the movie equates Queen Mab with the drug ecstasy, so a rather interesting interpretation. good luck finding the correct passage! once you find it, it's all there!