Final Review - Second Half Flashcards
What is the difference between folklore and literature
folklore = oral tradition that is recored
literature = has an explicit author
What is the “Story of Grandmother”?
the girl eats granny’s flesh and blood thinking it’s meat and wine
she asks to leave the bed and go out to pee/go outside
the wolf said yes but tied a rope to her leg
she tied it to a tree once she got outside and escaped
What did Perrault include at the end of his version of Little Red Riding Hood?
a moral (he always did in his literary works)
- warning against pedophilia → specifically for young girls and warning against people around them
What is unique about the Grimms’ version of “Little Red Cap”
they’re more strange and freakish
it has two endings:
* the hunstman fills the wolf with stones and it dies
* AFTER they drown a wolf in a trough after luring it with sausage water
What is unique about Sexton’s version of Little Red Riding Hood?
- it’s an example of confessional poetry
- at the beginning she explains different examples of deception where one’s inner life is different from their outer (con-artists deceiving as housewives, a woman having an affair, a suicidal comic, the poet herself)
- uses the C-section performed by the huntsman to use the wolf (deception) as the ‘mother’ of our issues
What does Luthi explore in his criticism
folktales have an abstract aesthetic
purposeful tonal effect to make folktales depthless
(ex. naming things based on a colour or element of their clothing, and not describing anything else)
What does Darnton explore in his criticism
national boundaries of folktales (French vs. German)
FIND THE MAIN IDEA OF THIS
What does Haas explore in his criticism
nationalism in folktales
What does Zipes explore in his criticism
the guy who talks about Disney and how they started up
What does Propp explore in his criticism
the difference between oral and written tradition
- - changes how we think about literary fairytales and the written recorders of folktales (Perrault, Grimm, etc.)
- ATU → looks at the shapes of fairytales (plots) and categorizes them
Summary of “Fitcher’s Bird” by the Brothers Grimm
a sorcerer disguised himself as a poor man and begged from door to door to capture pretty girls
- he went to a house with three daughters and ran off with the oldest one when she offered him bread
- he just touched her and she magically went into his basket
- he goes on a trip but gives her the keys to the house first
- says she’ll die if she opens the door that the little key opens
- he gives her an egg to take wherever she goes, something bad will happen if she loses it
- she explored the house and opened the door
- she saw a bunch of dead people in a basin and dropped the egg into it
- the blood stains wouldn’t come off
- when he returned she gave the keys and egg back and he knew she had been in the room
- he chopped her head off
- he did the same thing to the second daughter
- the third daughter was taken too, but instead of bringing the egg with her when she explored she left it in a safe space
- she opened the door and saw her sisters, when she put their body parts together they came back to life
- he comes back and says she passed the test and now they are to be married
- she says sure but he has to bring her parents gold first
- she put her sisters in the basket with the gold
- this made it extra heavy but she said she’d be watching him and not to rest on the journey
- the third daughter planned the wedding, inviting people over, as the sorcerer was on his walk
- she disguised herself as a bird and walked right past the wedding guests
- putting a bejewled skull in the window so it could look like her
- her brothers set fire to the house once she left
What is the sparksnotes version of Fitcher’s Bird by the Brothers Grimm
- 3 sisters
- a sorcerer who touches people and they get put into his basket
- rolls around in honey and feathers to disguise herself as Fitcher’s bird
What is a summary of Mr. Fox
Lady Mary had lots of lovers, but her favourite was Mr Fox and they decided to marry
they decided to live in his castle after the wedding
close to the wedding hay, Lady Mary walked to find the castle
on various walls and things variants of “be bold, be bold, but not too bold lest that your heart’s blood should run cold” were written
Lady Mary was braved and open a door that led to a room with dead bodies of young ladies
she started to run out but saw Mr Fox who was bringing in an unconscious young lady
he saw a ring on the new one’s finger and tried to pull it off, unable he cut the finger off instead
the finger went into Lady Mary’s lap in her hiding place
he kept going up to the bloody chamber
the wedding day comes
she tells him of her ‘dream’ at breakfast
retelling her day at his castle
she pulled out the ring to prove it
he was cut into a thousand pieces by her brothers and friends
What is a summary of Robber’s Bridegroom
a miller decided that only the perfect suitor would marry his daughter
one who was rich showed up and he agreed to marry him to his daughter
the girl didn’t like him, she didn’t want to visit him
she used peas and lentils to mark the path to his house as she made her way
when she entered the house a bird in a cage warned her against it
the house was empty except for a woman in the kitchen
she said that cannibals lived there and they were going to eat her
she told her to hide
the “robbers” came home with a different maiden, drunk
they made the new maiden drink to death and then they prepped her to be eaten
one of the new girl’s fingers fell in the lap of the hiding girl, but the old woman convinced the robbers not to look for it
they began to eat and the old woman put sleeping potion in their wine
the two women escaped when they were sleeping, following the sprouted lentils and peas home
the robbers appeared at her house on the day of the wedding
each person was asked to tell a story at dinner
the bride told about her “dream” of her experience at the cannibal house
when she got to the part with the finger with the ring on it she pulled it out, proving her story was true
the robber tried to escape but him and his buddies were arrested
Who wrote The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter, her version of Bluebeard
What is the first moral in Perrault’s Bluebeard
“you were too curious”
a generally strange moral
curiosity is an antonym of obedience
knowledge is a charm of curiosity
community and sisterhood is a charm of curiosity (like gossip)
“you can see a lot of examples of curiosity”
one can only seek out these examples if they are curious in the first place
which they’re being advised against in this moral
the moral is told from a similarly sadistic voice to the one Bluebeard uses
lecturing to women (”you”)
it doesn’t really make any sense because it doesn’t really reflect the story
What is the second moral in Perrault’s Bluebeard
telling “you” that husbands now are way better, and the experience of the heroine never happens anymore
suggesting that the wives now have the power as opposed to the husbands
Who are Gilbert and Gubar, what did they write
- critique the feminism in Snow White
- argue that it should be called “Snow White and her Wicked Stepmother”
What are the sparksnotes of “The Juniper Tree” (Grimm)
- male version of Snow White
- decapitates the boy with a chest lid with a sharp lock on it
- the mom tricks her daughter into slapping the decapitated boy → makes her think his death was her fault
What is the song featured in “The Juniper Tree”
my mother, she slew me,
my father, he ate me,
my sister, Little Marlene,
gathered up my bones,
tied them up in silk,
and put them under the juniper tree.
Tweet, tweet, what a fine bird I am!
What are the sparksnotes of Hansel and Gretel (Brothers Grimm)
- about famine, parents abandoning their children
- they get home the first time because Hansel dropped white stones on their way
- they don’t get home the second time because Hansel dropped breadcrumbs and birds ate them
- they find the candy house, get trapped, then Gretel kills the witch
- they get home for the final time with help from a duck → ride on his back one at a time across a body of water
What’s the last line of Hansel and Gretel by the Brothers Grimm
“My fairy tale is done. See the mouse run. Whoever catches it can make a great big fur hat out of it.”
What is a summary of “Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Anderson
- the emperor is convinced that dumb or unfit for their posts cannot see the clothes someone is selling to him
- no one could see them, but they faked being able to in fear that they were unfit
- a small child (innocent) finally said that the emperor wasn’t wearing anything, and the people became less scared to admit it too
- the emperor decided to continue showing off his ‘clothes’
What is the meaning of “Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Anderson
about imposter syndrome, innocence is the thing that cuts through fascism/monarchism
How is sentimentality used in “Little Match Girl” by Hans Christian Anderson?
- sentimentality → limited narrator, privy to the little match girl’s interior
- FOCALIZED → relates to a sentimental effect of the story
What is a summary of The Selfish Giant by Wilde
a giant has a nice garden but doesn’t want anyone in it
he puts up a sign banning kids, this makes it winter forever in his garden since spring didn’t want to come (because there were no kids)
until the kids break in and bring joy back
there’s one little boy who can’t reach a tree to climb so the giant goes out to help him
spring finally came, but the little boy did not come back → the giant was sad because they bonded
… the little boy turned out to be Jesus and invited the giant to heaven after many years
What is a summary of “The Happy Prince” by Wilde
there’s an admired statue of the happy prince
a bird stayed the winter for her lover, but tired of her and decided to nest at the feet of the prince
the bird noticed the prince crying because his statue is so high that he can see people’s suffering (unlike his life in the palace)
he enlists the bird to act as his messenger to help people he sees suffering (3 nights)
he gives them jewels, blinding himself because they’re his eyes
the bird vows to stay with the prince for the winter to keep him company
he gives the gold leaf from the statue to more suffering people
it got so cold that he died, prompting the statue to break in two
the statue was melted because it was ugly, and God brought up the bird and the prince to live happily in heaven
What are the (non-apt) titles of Little Red Riding Hood stories
- The Story of Grandmother
- The False Grandmother
- The Tale of the Tiger Woman
- Tselane and the Marimo
What are the titles of (non-apt) Bluebeard stories
- Fitcher’s Bird
- The Robber Bridegroom
- Mr. Fox
- The Forbidden Room
- Mast-Truan
What are the (non-apt) titles of Snow White Stories
The Young Slave
What are the titles of Trickster stories
- Hansel and Gretel
- Fulano de Tal and HIs Children
- The Juniper Tree
- The Rose Tree
- The Singing Bones
- Little Thumbling
- Vasilisa the Fair
- Momotaro, or the Peach Boy
- Jack and the Beanstalk
