Short Response Questions(Only need to answer 9 of them, you can choose)
- What problem might you encounter if you were a fairytale character who meets a fairytale protagonist with a strange body. Make a specific comparison/reference to a tale that exhibits a strange body.
- What is Kay Stone’s main focus in her article “Things Walt Disney Never Told Us”? What is her complaint?
- Short response: What are elements of a Bluebeard/ beastly bridegroom type tale? Mention specific details and the titles of the tales you are referencing.
- What is an ogre according to Maria Tatar? Give examples of two different types from two different tales we have read with the titles of those tales.
- According to Maria Tatar, what types of mothers do we frequently see in the Grimms’ fairytales. Give examples of two different types of mothers from two different fairytales we have read and name the fairytales.
- Bruno Bettelheim explains in his article “The Struggle for Meaning” why fairy tales affect children so greatly. Give two reasons or explanations for this.
- What is a cumulative tale? Give two examples of a tale that is clearly cumulative.
- In his article, “Once Upon a Time” (from his book, The Witch Must Die), Cashdan clearly rejects Freudian interpretations of fairy tales. How does he interpret fairy tales instead?
- According to Maria Tatar, what types of fathers do we find in the Grimms’ fairy tales. Give examples of two different types of fathers from two different fairytales we have read and name the fairytales.
- Name three characters as well as the names of the tales with strange bodies we examined in the second half of the semester.
- How does Maria Tatar define the term Once Upon a Time in her interview, “The Great Cauldron of Story”?
- What does Maria Tatar say (in her interview) about the original versions of fairytales and their original interpretations