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My notes from class on Friday...

Fairy tales that we should have read:

Little Mermaid
Little Red Riding Hood
Cinderella
Hansel & Gretel
Beauty and the Beast
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White
Rapunzel
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Bluebeard
Juniper Tree

Questions asked in class:

Q: What is a portmanteau?
A: Multi-level word combining two words

Q: What are the privileged numbers of fairy tales?
A: 3 and 7

Q: What is misplaced concreteness?
A: A question that isn't supposed to be asked during a fairy tale. Example Rapunzel's hair strength

Q: Which fairy tale is categorized as 333?
A: Little Red Riding Hood

Q: Collective unconscious manifests itself in what?
A: Archetypes

Q: "If you really crafty you will get them both"
A: Hansel & Gretel

Q: What are the 3 parts of the universal quest?
A: Separation, intuition, and return

Q: Why is there no such thing as an original fairy tale?
A: You cant trace from oral traditions, all displaced myth

Q: What are you recognizing in someone when you bow to them?
A: The divine

Q: Finish the quote from Disney's Aladdin. "I'm not history"
A: "I'm mythology"

Q: Difference between Grimm and Perot's Cinderella?
A: Cinderella is called Ashgirl in Grimm version.

Q: Beauty & the Beast, Hans my Hedgehog, and East of the Sun, West of the Moon are what motif?
A: Search for the lost husband & beast groom

Q: Which fairy tale do the women not have any trouble conceiving?
A: Bluebeard

Q: What are the 3 parts of the goddess?
A: Mother, maiden, and crone

Q: What is the mythological mother/daughter duo is frequently discussed in class?
A: Demeter and Persephone

Q: What is the significance of Bluebeard's blue beard?
A: All of the above

Q: What causes the transformation of the Beast?
A: Beauty's love

Q: Where was one of the first talking horses found at?
A: The Golden Ass

Q: Why did Cupid wake up when Psyche looked at him?
A: Hot oil hit his shoulder

Q: Sisty Uglies is an example of what?
A: Spoonerism

Q: What mythological story is Beauty and the Beast based off of?
A: Cupid & Psyche

Q: Which gender is usually being attacked for characteristic flaws?
A: Female

Q: Which Grimm Story has a witch in it?
A: Hansel & Gretel

Q: Who wanted to marry Red Riding Hood?
A: Charles Dickens

Q: What is a clue that you are reading a fairy tale?
A: Once upon a time...