fairtytale Flashcards
(20 cards)
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Lima, Enchanted (film)
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- 3rd person
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Grimm, “Rumpelstiltskin” (208)
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- 3rd person
- More of a straightforward retelling of the story
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Cunningham, “The Little Man”
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- Language is stranger and ire
- Beginning talks about the want for a child
- “You…” à reoccurring language
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Perrault, “Bluebeard,” (FFT 204)
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- blue beard.
- Third-person pov.
- liked the neighbor’s daughters
- The youngest was convinced that Blue Beard was a fine person
- brothers saved her.
- Classic retelling
- Daughters get to choose who marries him
- Brothers come to save her
- End gives morals
- Shames curiosity
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Grimm, “The Robber Bridegroom” (FFT 222)
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- Father gives away his daughter to a man she is afraid of
- Man asks if she will come to his house
- A bird in a cage outside the house in the forest tells her to go home.
- Old lady puts her in a big barrel to hide her from the ogres.
- She told everyone the story at the wedding and the ogres were arrested.
- Not a typical blue beard story
- The daughter is promised to a man that she does not want to marry
- She is suspicious of him
- He keeps asking her to come to his house in the woods
- Goes to the house with all the murderers and the old lady tells her they will eat her
- Daughter exposes the husband to everyone
- 3rd person
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Grimm, “Fitcher’s Bird,”
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- Third person perspective
- It is a sorcerer as the blue beard character
- The oldest daughter of three is coax to him
- Keys once again with an egg to take care of
- She goes in the chamber and is killed
- He got the second daughter and the same thing happened
o The third daughter finds her sisters and attempts to put their bodies back together
o She covers them with gold and makes the murderer carry them home unknowingly
o The sorcerer’s house and gang are all murdered. - Sorcerer-disguises himself as a poor man and captured girls
- After touching him the daughter was forced to go in his basket
- House was nice and he gave her an egg to watch
- After going in chamber egg and key are stained red
- Did the same to the second sister
- Third sister is smarter
- Sent the sisters back to the parents in the basket the sorcerer carried
- Rolled around in honey to look like a bird
- Put a skull in the window to trick everyone
- Brothers and relatives sit the house on fire
- 3rd person
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Carter, “The Werewolf” (In the Bloody Chamber [BC])
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- Her mother asks her to take some oatcakes to her grandmother, who has been sick.
- The grandmother lives five miles away through the forest
- The mother gives the child a knife and warns her not to leave the path. The child sets off.
- The child is a mountaineer’s daughter and is experienced with the wild beasts and harsh country.
- When she hears a wolf howling, she takes out her knife. The huge, red-eyed wolf attacks her but the child cuts off its hand and it runs off, whimpering.
- The child wraps the wolf’s paw in a cloth and keeps walking, and soon reaches her grandmother’s house.
- child finds that her grandmother is sick in bed
- notices that the wolf’s paw has turned into a human hand.
- The hand has a familiar wart on it, so the child pulls back her grandmother’s sheets and sees that the grandmother’s hand has been recently cut off.
- The child calls for the neighbors, and together they drive the grandmother out into the woods and stone her.
- The child then lives in the grandmother’s house and “prospers.”
- Same vibe as Little Man
- Beginning starts talking about the Devil and how to keep away
- Third-person language with a feel of first person
- Imagery that makes it seem that she kills her grandmother
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Carter, “The Company of Wolves” (BC; also, in FFT 240)
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Scary Wolves in Wintery Northern Country. People of village carry knives so don’t get eaten. Little Red Riding Hood overcomes her fear going butt naked into the forest and has sexy time w wolf and later lay together in grandma bed
* People going missing and turned into wolves
* When you kill the wolves they turn back into humans
* Little girl going out into the woods despite warning
* Imagery about her just starting her period and being a virgin
* Red and white imagery
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Carter, “Wolf Alice” (BC)
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In “Wolf-Alice,” a girl who was raised by wolves found by nuns in a wolf’s den
- cannot speak, runs on all fours, and howls, and is not “civilized” The nuns try to teach her to act like a human, but she remains wild and untamable.
-sent to the Duke. Meanwhile, the Duke is lying in his bed, caught mid-transformation, neither wholly human nor wholly beast. Wolf-Alice watches him and licks his bloody face. As she licks him, the face of the Duke begins to appear in the mirror across the bed. The story is told in third person.
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Sexton, “Red Riding Hood” (Moodle
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- Many are the deceivers
- Stand-up comic
- Even sexton is a deceiver heart surgery with enjambment.
- Funny sarcastic little red as she notes its flaws
- Poem
- “All the deceivers”
- Gives different scenarios (old Jennie, a comedian that kills himself, and herself)
- Retells Grimm’s version
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Sexton, “Cinderella” (Moodle)
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- The stories of fortune
o Except for the story of the rags-to-riches real estate agent - Begins the Cinderella story with “once” because it only will happen once
- The tree at the grave gives her magic
- Wax collects her gold shoe
- Doves peck the sister’s eyes out
- Ends with a sarcastic “That story”
- POEM!!
- Beginning talks about stories of rags to riches
- Normal Cinderella story
- 3rd person
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Broumas, “Cinderella” (Moodle)
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- First person perspective
- Questioned the hand picking of women for their beauty
o Then once picked their little purpose - I’ll die young
- like those favored before me, hand-picked each one for her joyful heart.
- Poem
- Talks about life after being chosen by the prince
- FIRST PERSON
13
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Carter, “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” (BC)
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- Beauty, the heroine of this story, waits at home for her father to return. There is a snowstorm going on outside, and she fears for his safety. He promised to be home by nightfall, but it is now dark out. Meanwhile her father’s car is stuck in the snow. He had been in town meeting with lawyers and trying to “restore his fortunes,” but with no success. He doesn’t even have enough money to pay for gas or to buy a white rose for Beauty, the one gift she had requested.
- Father steals a rose at Mr. Lyon’s mansion
- The next day Beauty hears roaring in the hills and wonders if the Beast is hunting. She soon gets into a routine of whiling away the hours in comfort and silence and then talking with the Beast every night, and every night he kisses her hands just before they part.
- Beauty leaves for the winter and her father lives extravagantly in London, and though they talk often of the Beast his home starts to seem like a magical place in another life.
- He tells Beauty he is dying, as he has lost the will to hunt and eat after she left him, but he will die happily now that she is there. Beauty flings herself at him and kisses the Beast’s paws, promising never to leave him again.
- Mr Lyon turns into a human and Mr and Mrs Lyon – live happily ever after, walking with the spaniel through the garden.
- Third person
- Modern Beauty and the Beast
o Mr. Lyon fixes his car for him
o Dad takes white rose for daughter; shows picture of daughter
o Brings daughter for the beast - Sacrificial lamb
- Lion, different order, godlike, halo
- Came to care for him
- Licked her hands; she is still human
you know this one babe
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Carter, “The Tiger’s Bride” (BC) THINK OF BUCK!!
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- The heroine and her father have traveled from Russia to a city in the south, where the madness of warmth and luxury comes over the father, even though it is still winter. Everyone who stays in this city must play cards with a mysterious “Milord,” who is also called “The Beast.” The father has a gambling addiction (LIKE BUCK!!), and he gleefully loses everything to The Beast as the heroine watches, angry and frightened.
- Mom is dead
- The Beast is huge and bathed in perfume, with yellow eyes and a face like a beautifully painted-on mask. He wears kid gloves over his clumsy hands. He is a tiger.
- The heroine laughs and says angrily that she will allow The Beast to “visit” her only once, but she must have a sheet over her face and be in complete darkness. She desires no money unless The Beast pays her what he would a prostitute. The Beast is clearly struck by this outburst, and a tear falls from his eye.
- The Beast licks the heroine’s hands, and she fears his rough tongue will rip off her skin – and it does. Layer after layer of skin disappears, finally revealing fur, and the heroine’s earrings turn to water, and the heroine herself becomes a tiger.
- First person
- Mask
- Mirror
- Father lost her in the game of cards
- Licks her skin off, she is now a tiger
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Kumin, “Archaeology of a Marriage” (Moodle)
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- Modern-day sleeping beauty
- Analyzes the initial meeting of two people having sex before war
- Means something different for each of them
- Poem
- Sleeping beauty wakes up 50 years later
- The prince is out all the time
- Talks about him being in the navy
o She was ready to be married
o He was about to be shipped off to war - BORDER
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Carter, “The Bloody Chamber” (BC)
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- My little nun, weirdo, mom comes to save her
- FIRST PERSON
- Creepy
- Collector
- Viewed her predatorily
- Eyes/looking à monocle, mirrors
o 37 “the monocle”
o 10/11 “I found” “he stripped me”
Strip
Monocle
Monocle being worn by lecher in a book
Bed surrounding by mirrors
o 6 à mirror
They at the opera - Masking
- Lionlike
o Page 2 “above the syncopated”
Hear his breathing over the roar of the train
The way he moveso Page 3 “he was older than I”
Silver in his mane
No lines on his face à no sign of the way he’s lived
o God like à secure in his power
o 37 “the monocle”
Mane reference again - Connoisseur/collector
o 10/11 “he stripped me”
Collection of art
o Women
o White
o Artwork
o Torture devices
o Pornography
Lilies - Lilies
o 3 “even when he” - Connected to masking
- Compares him to lilies
o 9 “chauffer” - Tiger lilier
o 10 “and there lay”
o 11 “and I began”
White and staining from pollen à semen
Presence is overpowering
Associated with death
o 14 “I shook him”
Lilies in the bedroom à embalming parlor
o 19 “at last”
Violence
o 27 “yet at the center”
Lilies in the bloody chamber - What causes her to go wondering?
o Curiosity of who he really is
Goes to his office and goes through his desk
what da hell boi
17
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Atwood, “Bluebeard’s Egg” (Moodle)
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- Wife thinks the husband is stupid, she is
- Sally and Ed
- Role reversal where Sally appears to be a Bluebeard
- Ed is cheating on her with her best friend
o Past wives she is curious about - Sally claims to be smart and self-sufficient
o Shes says she can’t be nothing because she has Ed and a job
o Ed is at the center of her heart -> but she doesn’t truly know him - 3 forbidden chambers:
o The heart room
o The desk
o Ed
Puzzle
Developing polaroid
Forest
Nesting doll - Does things in hopes that it will make Ed take an interest in her… nothing does
18
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Oates, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” (Moodle)
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- Young girl is taken by Arnold Friend
- Third person
- Connie; knew she was pretty and that was everything
o INSECURE MOM:Her mother was once pretty but now she’s not – takes it out on Connie - Compares Connie to her sister June (plain, chunky, steady, and got all mom’s praise)
- Father was away at work; ignored everything
- Charm bracelets jingling
- Went to the shopping plaza with her friend (only because June went places with her friends)
- Eddie came and took connie away from her friend
o Every guy she met after him reminded her of Eddy - Arnold Friend drove up with Ellie Oscar
o Tried to get her to go for a ride
o Says he took interest in her and knows all about her
o Realized how old they were, tried to get them to leave
o Arnold gets more creepy and aggressive; “I’m your lover” “Iknow all about you” calls her honey
o He says he saw her at the restaurant that night - Eventually gives in and goes with him
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Block, “Bones” (Moodle)
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- Unnamed narrator’s perspective – 1st person
- Why is it a Bluebeard story?
o Blue hair and eyes; called Derrick Blue
o Everyone knows him (socially powerful)
o Wealth -> producer (makes or breaks people)
o Key and bones
o He retells her the story of bluebeard - Has safe sex (usually) with boys she didn’t know
- Tells her bluebeard story: she met him at a party
o She wants to become an artist, alive
o He was a promoter/powerful; she served him at a restaurant
o Hot in LA; she’s not from around there
o Starving – for food and to feel wanted by the men at the parties
o Crimson girl on the wall (painting)
o He said she was tiny like a doll and might break, offered to make him whatever she wanted
o Told her the story of bluebeard – has a key
o Bones of skinny, hungry girls that didn’t know their worth - She wants to rewrite the story where the girl saves herself with a knife
She got out alive to sing the story of the other girls’ bones
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POEMS
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KAM(KILL ALL MEN):Kumin Archaeology of marriage
B.C.:Broumas Cinderella
SRSC(THINK OF SHARUH KHAN AKA SRK):Sexton Red Riding Hood and Sexton Cinderella
