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Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales. Folk Fairy Tales. Oral tradition Reflect values of culture at the time Women telling stories to young children Peasant political information Brief, dramatic and memorable narratives Message stays with listener/reader Express multiple meanings Adaptable without changing story.

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Fairy Tales

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  1. Fairy Tales

  2. Folk Fairy Tales • Oral tradition • Reflect values of culture at the time • Women telling stories to young children • Peasant political information • Brief, dramatic and memorable narratives • Message stays with listener/reader • Express multiple meanings • Adaptable without changing story

  3. History Of Tales

  4. The Enlightenment • Mostly atheist or deists • Conscious mind is rational • Rational = Good • Reason leads to virtue • World is mechanical, rational, machine-like • Adulthood = Capable of mature reasoning • Perfectibility of human through intellect

  5. Romanticism • True meaning impossible through human reason • Reach ultimate truth through imagination, irrational, insanity and subconscious • Children are better humans • World = ambiguous place – Paradox, Dualities • Supernatural • Experience is real knowledge; books are theoretical

  6. Strangers • Central theme in fairy tales • Confrontation with something uncommon • Peasants want to stay or return home • Traveling is not good

  7. Women • Women are the focus of tales – “Old Wives Tales” • Temptation and Redemption through women • Paradox

  8. Fairy Tale Women

  9. Men • Children had few encounters with men • Fathers are often missing in stories • Seen as weak characters or aggressors

  10. Children • Romantics • Ideal people as they live in dreams • Capable of total innocence which is lost in adulthood • Main threat to girls are older women • Peasants • Children = Little adults • Expendable • Mortality rates, disappearances • Work in fields • Support parents in old age

  11. Adolescence • Biological equivalent of the Fall • Lose innocence through knowledge

  12. Three Approaches

  13. Folklore/Historical • Anthropological study of illiterate peasants • Closest to original versions • Peasant stories of people who subsist • Class information

  14. Freud • Most prevalent view of fairy tales • Instinctual drives – sex, aggression • Determined by subconscious

  15. Feminist • Focus on role of women or girls in tales • Women are victims • Gender issues • Aging – Older women as demons/witches

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