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Bernheimer "Fairy Tale is Form, Form is Fairy Tale"
--> use the part that how fairy tales help people to understand the world, that's why modern-retelling story writers writes their stories.

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Modern retellings integrate ideas that are important to us to the stories, and help people better understand the world in fairy tales. For example, feminism, peer pressure, and gender minority.

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Classic tale are not perfect stories. It only paid attentions to the points that they wanted people to think about while leaving a lot of questionable plots. These plots are dangerous to people and the modern retellings tend to fix the problem.

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Modern Retellings are unnecessary at all.
They are not as famous as the original tales.
They're just repeating what people have talked about for hundreds of years.

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Carter "Notes from the Front Line"
--> use with "Beauty and the Chad," to explain what are authors thinking when they create modern retellings.

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Tosi - "Did They Live Happy Ever After?"
--> use with "Beauty and the Beast," talk about correction of moral flaws.
--> use with "Bluebeard"/"East of the Sun," to talk about how important to integrate feminist ideas into writings.

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"Beauty and the Chad"
--> more realistic than any other variations: Belle is not the perfect heroine.
--> fit in the society: talk about modern issues in modern wording.
--> feminist, gender minority.

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"Frog King"
--> the importance of motives
--> classic fairy tales are not always right, people need to know that.
the princess doesn't want to save the frog. In the opposite, she wants to kill the frog.
Does someone like her deserve the happy ending?

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"East of the Sun West of the Moon" / "Bluebeard"

--> women are blamed for their curiosity. The concept of blaming the victim.

It's really hard to be a heroine because people have unreasonable requirements for women: they want women to be perfect while men can make mistakes.

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"Beauty and the Beast"
--> Belle ignored her sisters  when they turned into statues.
--> it doesn't fit the description of "nice person," which is a moral flaw.

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Why do we need modern retelling tales?

--> because modern retellings are stand on the shoulders of classic tales, correct flaws based on current values, and deliver message that are new and revolutionary.

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Fairy tales have been a part of people’s life for hundreds of year. While classical tales stay in the society, new variations emerge. Why do the classical tales and the new variations exist at the same time? Some people may argue that it’s not necessary. However, in fact, the new variations are exist based on the assumption that people already know the classical tales. They are standing on the shoulders of giant, correcting flaws within the original tale, and deliver new messages.