Rapunzel

Question 1

What are the relationships in Rapuzel?

Answer 1

Always in twos

• man and woman
• old woman and maiden
• adelecent woman and man
• twins

Question 2

How are the husband a wife not a stable relationship?

Answer 2

• Because the wife craves rapunzul because the husbands power is inataquit
• The husband is reduced to just a go between between the two woman
• this shows that the child does not actually belong to him but to the society of woman

Question 3

What’s the difference of their relationship in terms of strength?

Answer 3

• The couple that lasted the most is that of old woman and maiden
• Men are only there to measles in the affair of others
• the husband agrees right away to the sorcery demands because the child belongs to her body of knowledge
• it represents a more stable coupling then man and wife or the prince of rapunzel

Question 4

Why is there a magic to Rapunzel?

Answer 4

• It is that the story started off with a bad relationship between a mother and a father and the father was just the go between for all the woman
• then at the end it is a girl and a boy and a man and a woman live happily ever after after she’s given twins
• this shows the deviation away from the asexual of the clone from mother to daughter and to a woman giving birth to twins, one male and one female
• also magical power through her tears
• it represents woman’s knowledge and mixed with semen of the man creates a stable couple of male and female

Question 5

How does the story of Rapunzel tell the history of the nature of sexuality?

Answer 5

• Mother is an exact replica of daughter because husband was just in the middle
• turns into husband and wife relationship that’s how they could create twins
• this compares to the asexual organism that first started life, they were just creations of themselves (mother daughter cells) (male is in drudge of the mother daughter cells)
• when nucleus was introduced that’s when individuality was created but the price of that was death because there are not clones that can be passed on

Question 6

Why was rupunzel chosen?

Answer 6

• replicates the sexual drama of the fairy tale
• this herb has the power to fertilize itself
• but nature prefers not to because it leads to inbreeding, loss of diversity and loss of adaptive flexibility to survive changing circumstances