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The Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

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The Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

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In 1740, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, a French author from Paris wrote the story, "La Belle et la Bête". Gabrielle-Suzanne first wrote, "Le Phoenix conjugal"and also wrote two fairy tales called, "La Jeune Américaine ou les Contes marine" and "Les Belles Solitaires" in 1740 and 1745. "It is the oldest known variant of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast." Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite Disney movie and that is why I chose to look further into it for this assignment because for it being one of my favorite movies I did not know enough of the history behind it. For fun, I watched a parody video made on Youtube called "Bonjour, Girl!". It was very funny to watch. I like to watch parody's of fairy tales because I love comedy and turning something usually serious into something light and funny. Here is the link to the parody video I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcuI6K9daIw#t=138. I highly recommend you watch it, you will not regret it.

-Brianne Martinoni

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I read about Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot, who is considered the original author of the tale Beauty and the Beast. http://humanitiesresource.com/ancient/articles/Beauty_and_Beast-Final.pdf                          She was born in Paris, and in 1740 published the story, which was over 300 pages long. Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beauty.html) was the next to abridge and republish the story. It shouldn't be surprising that this story also has many versions, links to which can be found here: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0425c.html. I thought it was interesting that there are so many different titles. Red Riding Hood sticks to similar words or phrases, while this story sometimes includes fairies, serpents, bears, or beasts. For example, one version is titled "The Singing, Springing Lark."

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I read about Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot, who is considered the original author of the tale Beauty and the Beast. http://humanitiesresource.com/ancient/articles/Beauty_and_Beast-Final.pdf                          She was born in Paris, and in 1740 published the story, which was over 300 pages long. Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont (http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/beauty.html) was the next to abridge and republish the story. It shouldn't be surprising that this story also has many versions, links to which can be found here: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/type0425c.html. I thought it was interesting that there are so many different titles. Red Riding Hood sticks to similar words or phrases, while this story sometimes includes fairies, serpents, bears, or beasts. For example, one version is titled "The Singing, Springing Lark."

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In 1982, Roald Dahl wrote the "Revolting Rhymes." He re-wrote nursery rhymes with a new twist. He first published his writing in 1942 after being in the Air Force. "Revolting Rhymes" includes the fairytales Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, and The Three Little Pigs. I like the new additions he added into well known fairytales. Hearing and reading fairytales from when we were young and then reading a new version is fun and interesting. It adds excitement and surprise because you never know what to expect next. Roald Dahl is able to create an interesting story with new events occurring in well known fairytales.
http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/stories/1980s/revolting-rhymes
https://allpoetry.com/The-Three-Little-Pigs

-Jacqueline Munoz

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I decided to research about Shelley Duvall as I saw that she has twenty-seven adaptions of fairy tales. Back in the 80s she delivered some of the popular fairy tale stories that we know today and love. Her stories were on TV so there were many different episodes regarding a particular fairy tale and included some well-known actors such as Robin Williams. Her retellings of the fairy tales were known to be mostly bizarre, yet she went to include some comedic and dark elements into the stories. Her series ran for 6 seasons and the very first show debuted in 1982 with the story of “The Frog Prince” starring Duvall’s “Popeye” co-star Robin Williams. Her stories were not like the typical animated stories as they appealed to both children and adults. The humor in the stories were easily understood by both age groups yet the actors for the characters in the stories was what caused the most attention of the adults to these episodes. For each episode, the sets were traditionally constructed and made each story unique in its own way. Duvall wasn’t known for adding just “simple” twists, the twists  that she would go to include in her work were something that was incomparable to other stores and were hard to define by the audience.

To read more about the specific stories she included here is the link below:

http://screencrush.com/faerie-tale-theatre/

To view here collection on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfp_r1A709h_A4T5QlnD1nZs7RWo97leF

Stephanie Perez

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This piece of work is very well known around the world. This is so because it incorporates many different types of fairy tales into one. It brings the magic of Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel and the LIttle Red Riding Hood together in one sitting. The basics of the story are that the couple wishes to have a child but soon realize they cannot, so they set out on a journey to break the curse that the witch has brought upon them. Later, in 2014 it hit the big screen and was a huge hit.

Anjelica Gonzales

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This piece of work is very well known around the world

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In 1979, Angela Carter published "The Bloody Chamber". In the story of The Werewolf, little red cuts off the paw of the wolf she encounters in the forest. When she arrives to grandmother's she realizes that her grandma is missing her hand. This shows that her grandmother was the werewolf. Little red then inherits all of her grandmothers money. This story sets little red up to be sneaky in that she could of planned to steal her grandmothers inheritance. The bloody chamber is a work that reflects its time period where feminism and strong female characters were beginning to seize in literature.
- Tori Esposito

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In 1979, Angela Carter published a novel entitled "The Bloody Chamber." It was a series of fairytales that had feminist overtones. One story within the work was a bout a little girl who went to visit grandma. Along the way, she encountered a werewolf. She cut off the werewolf's paw and continued her journey to grandma's house. At grandmas she saw that her grandmothers hand was missing and that she was the wolf all along. Grandma then dies and little red inherits all of her money.

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This version of the tale of the Three Little Pigs takes a quite interesting turn. To start, Dahl follows the typical storyline in a humorous way in the eyes of the wolf. As time passes, however, we get to the point of the pig with the brick house. This is where the story takes the biggest turn. Rather than the wolf giving up and the pig living "happily ever after", the wolf decides he will return, and this time, with dynamite. In a panic, calls up Little Red Riding Hood to help save the day. This is the first time I've actually seen two differing fairy tales become mixed in with each other, and I think it is quite cool to see. But what makes the story a little more interesting is that she ends up also killing the pig as well! Like this version is essentially crazy in what it entails.

- Nick DeGruccio

You can check out his version of the story at this page:

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Comments & analysis: The animal I really dig, / Above all others is the pig. / Pigs are noble. Pigs are clever,

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The Adventures of Robin Hood, a 1938 film directed by Michael Curtiz, is a version of this fairy tale that I had never heard. I chose to watch this film because when I was young I watched the Disney version of Robin Hood.

I wanted to start off by sharing the story I am familiar with. When I was little, my mom told me the story of Robin Hood the way Walt Disney told it. Robin Hood was the town crook that stole money to help the poor in his town. The King kept all the money for himself and would send his people to take everything from the town. Robin Hood fell in love with a maiden and stopped his ways to start a family, but before he began that part of his life he killed the king and became the new king of his town.

Now, the 1938 version I read was about a man taking the original king, Richard Lionheart, captive by the Duke of Austria. The king is then gone so his conniving brother, Prince John, takes the throne. He raises taxes to take money for himself from the people and to make sure he is always the king. “Robin Hood” or as they call him, Sir Robin of Locksley or Robin, does not agree with King John’s ways so he goes against him. Eventually the original king that was taken comes back and exiles Prince John and his followers. He then makes Robin the Baron of the towns and advises him to marry his maiden.

Overall, I found the two very fascinating because they are completely different. The film is the adult version, with taking someone captive, battle scenes, and more. While the Disney version is a fox, the people of the town are other critters, and they use bow and arrows that miss their target, and is filled with a lot of child comedy. As I read the adult versions of these tales, I find myself shocked that I was so immature and childish when I found out that my reality when I was a child was kind of a lie. If you google the Disney version and compare the movie picture to the one i posted below, you will see the obvious difference in adult vs child.

The link to synopsis film if you haven't watched it or heard the story:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029843/

By: Brittney Collinson

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This version of "Little Red Riding Hood" where Little Red Riding Hood is known as Little Red Cap was a fairytale in Europe around the 17th Century. There were many different versions of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood' but the Brothers Grimm version "Little Red Cap" was one of the most well known. In this version of the story little red riding hood, little red's grandmother is sick. So Little Red Riding Hoods mother packs her a basket of thing to bring to her grandmother. Her mother gives her a quick lesson in making sure to say good morning, behaving herself, and not leaving the path. Only little red did not listen to her mother, she strays from the path to look at flowers and she talks to a wolf along the way. When Little Red Riding Hood arrives at her grandmother house she finds the wolf dressed as her grandmother in her bed. He had eaten the grandmother before little red got there and now he eats her too. The wolf falls asleep snoring very loudly and three huntsmen nearby happen to hear him. They get to grandmother house and cut the wolf open to find that little red and her grandmother were alive and inside. The huntsmen left with the wolf, the grandmother ate her cake and drank her wine, and little red learned her lesson to listen to her mother and never stray from the path again.

Alyson Gruber

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Italian Folktales (Fiabe italiane) was published by Italo Calvino in 1956. This book is a series of 200 different fairy tails. Calvino began his project in 1954 and he really was focused on creating a popular collection of Italian fairy tales. Surprisingly the majority of the tales he used were not created by him self and they were actually used existing work of folklorists and noted them as his source.

-Cody Finley

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"Mules and Men" is a written collection of African-American folklore that have been circulating among the black community in America during slavery and up until 1935 when the book was published.  "Mules and Men", written by Zora Neale Hurston, was an attempt to gather all the tales told by black Americans in to help them "articulate the 'aesthetic experience ' of black culture," and to ultimately help them understand themselves through the lense of folktales. As religion was very important to the black community for most of their time here in America, many of the folktales contained in the collection have a religious aspect to them. For example, eleven of the folktales contained in "Mules and Men" out of the dozens of stories contain either the words "heaven," "preach," "God," or "Devil." Many other folktales also have slavery involved in them since many of these stories had been told since the times of slavery.

--Marcus Elia

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: 1819- The Goose-Girl http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm089.html                                                I had never heard the story of The Goose-Girl before. The Goose-Girl is about a princess who is sent away to a faraway land. On her journey, she is accompanied by a waiting maid and the princess’s horse Falada. As long as she wears this special charm her mother gave her, no harm can come to her. As the princess’s journey continues, she asks the maid to go fetch her some water. The maid tells her no and makes the princess fetch her own water. As the princess is drinking water over the river her necklace falls off and goes down the river. This is a perfect chance for the maid to take advantage of her. She tells the princess to take her clothes off and switch with her. The maid orders her to take an oath and not tell anyone of this or else she would kill the princess. As they get to the palace, the maid poses as the princess. The real princess is ordered to guard the geese with a boy named Conrad. As the two were on the goose meadow, the princess combs her hair while Conrad watches. He plucks a couple her hairs and the princess angrily orders the wind to take his hat off. That’s when Conrad goes to the King and tells him what happened. In the end, the maid is killed and the prince and the princess marry and rule the kingdom. I was expecting this story to be about geese and turning into magical creatures but as you can tell I was wrong. This picture is of Conrad and the princess in the goose meadow.

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: 1819- The Goose-Girl http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm089.html                                                I had never heard the story of The Goose-Girl before. The Goose-Girl is about a princess who is sent away to a faraway land. On her journey, she is accompanied by a waiting maid and the princess’s horse Falada. As long as she wears this special charm her mother gave her, no harm can come to her. As the princess’s journey continues, she asks the maid to go fetch her some water. The maid tells her no and makes the princess fetch her own water. As the princess is drinking water over the river her necklace falls off and goes down the river. This is a perfect chance for the maid to take advantage of her. She tells the princess to take her clothes off and switch with her. The maid orders her to take an oath and not tell anyone of this or else she would kill the princess. As they get to the palace, the maid poses as the princess. The real princess is ordered to guard the geese with a boy named Conrad. As the two were on the goose meadow, the princess combs her hair while Conrad watches. He plucks a couple her hairs and the princess angrily orders the wind to take his hat off. That’s when Conrad goes to the King and tells him what happened. In the end, the maid is killed and the prince and the princess marry and rule the kingdom. I was expecting this story to be about geese and turning into magical creatures but as you can tell I was wrong. This picture is of Conrad and the princess in the goose meadow.

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I read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This version of Alice in Wonderland was created in 1865.

When I was growing up, I remember watching Alice in Wonderland movie, which was produced in 2010, and Johnny Depp played one of the main characters. The movie was about a girl who was returning to Wonderland to help Hatter and the White Queen return to her throne.

Reading Lewis Carroll’s version was very different from the movie but was interesting. The majority of the characters that were found in the movie were present in her story, but the sequence of events did not follow the same pattern. Also in the book, Alice is portrayed to be a young schoolgirl where in the movie she is around 19 years of age, and her visit is not the first one to Wonderland. In the movie I felt there was more conflict, sneaking around, and fighting than what was portrayed in the book.

In the book, every chapter was a new adventure and sometimes it felt choppy and lacked full development of the story and characters. Also, at the end of the book, Alice wakes up from a nap and does not need to wish herself back to reality.

Here is a link where you can read Lewis Carroll’s version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

https://www.adobe.com/be_en/active-use/pdf/Alice_in_Wonderland.pdf

Here is a book review of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/dec/23/review-lewis-carroll-alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland

-Gabriella Harrington

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I wanted to learn more about the Brothers Grimm and their works. With that I was searching through all of their tale that they wrote, and I came across the story Snow-White and Rose-Red. I originally choose this story thinking that it might be a versions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, but what I found instead was an interesting tale that is completely different from what I had expected. In this tale Snow-White and her sister, Rose-Red, come across a bear that turns out to be a prince, who was cursed by a dwarf. Instead of receiving the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, I was greeted to a unique version of Beauty and the Beast. All though the tale does not match Beauty and the Beast exactly, there are a couple elements that are similar. For example, a prince being curse into an animal/beast, and being saved a girl. Another thing that I find interesting is that the dwarf was considered to be the evil person in this story. In the Snow White and the Seven Dwarves version they are the friends that help Snow White. Yet in Snow-White and Rose-Red, the dwarf was awful. I really enjoyed this fairy tale and I highly recommend others to read this beauty.

Links:
http://www.bartleby.com/17/2/42.html (The Tale)
https://gatherednettles.com/2012/04/14/snow-white-and-rose-red-by-mercer-mayer/ (The Picture)

-Ariana Rasnake

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Shelley Duvall was born July 7th 1949, in Houston Texas. Shelley started out her career as being an actress and was casted in several different movies, having her previous acting skills in high school push her into the mainstream movies. Shelley won. "Best Actress at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival" (IMBD). Shelley became known for her take on fairy tales when she started doing her own dark or comedic remakes of fairy tales. Shelley had a lot of her friends participate in the six seasons the show appeared, "The series ran for six seasons and covered everything from popular stories like 'The Little Mermaid' and 'Cinderella' to lesser known tales like 'The Dancing Princesses".
Read More: Remembering Shelley Duvall's 'Faerie Tale Theatre' | http://screencrush.com/faerie-tale-theatre/?trackback=tsmclip.
Most of the shows were easy to tell that there was something different than what was being shown on television and what was being read at the time; her shows take something familiar or traditional and puts them into something futuristic for the time period.

Sarah Kramer

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Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (1956)

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Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (1956)

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From never hearing about a writer named Italo Calvino, was very curious on the works of an Italian short novelists and what kind of tales he could share. From a famous journalist from Italy, he published a book full of short stories called "Italian Folktales." One of the stories that caught my eye was his short story called "Twelve Oxen." This short story was filled with love and protection between those who care for each other and will protect them no matter what. It was a story about twelve brothers and their little sister who ran away into the woods from to live together away from their parents. The little girl bought twelve bowls of water from the witch and gave it to her brothers as a gift, but when they drank it, they all turned to oxes. She then had to take care of all of them, gets married to a prince, and then they all get protection from the prince's palace. The witch comes back, traps the sister, and turns into her. The Prince finds out, rescues the sister, kills the witch, and the oxes then turned back into her brothers.

What fascinated me about this short story was that it went into detail on how much the oxes meant to the sister when she knew that they were her brothers, and she did everything to still make them very happy. And looking into Calvino's other stories, the majority of them were about families protecting each other, no matter the consequences and problems that come their way. So it seemed that being Italian really makes you care for family, and that is what his stories have shown.
https://books.google.com/books?id=3Bwb6sTtLLEC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

- Chris Missimer

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Growing up I have always had a great love of disney movies, however, Snow White for some reason was never one of the movies I remember growing up loving. I did know that it was the first of the Disney films to be released and thought that looking up facts about the movie release could be interesting.

I found that Walt Disney had a great deal of hope that this movie was going to do well, because he actually borrowed most of the 1.5 million it took to make the movie. Luckily for him the movie was a great success; it received a standing ovation at its premiere in Hollywood on December 21st, 1937! At the time however, people were very skeptical that a film like this would do well at all, they claimed that adults would never sit through its entirety! The movie went on to make over 8 million dollars in the box office, more than any other movie of its time. The movie was released during the great depression so this was even more monumental! Even Charlie Chaplin claimed that the movie had "Surpassed our greatest expectations."

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has since been awarded as the greatest animated film of all time. It amazing that for my generation, disney movies were a part of almost every childhood. To think there was a time that they did not exist is really amazing. I enjoyed reading the history of the movie!

-Michelle Lensch

The link for the history can be found at:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/disney-releases-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs

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The Frog Princess: A Russian Fairy Tale 

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The Frog Princess: A Russian Fairy Tale 

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BY: Alexander Afanasyev

I decided to focus on one of the author's stories and i went with 'the frog princess'. It is the first Russian tale of 'the princess frog' and it is nothing like the disney version of 'The Princess and the Frog' In his version it is the princess who is disguised as a frog and is testing the man she is bound to marry and fails the last test that is set out for him. Unfortunately this particular fairytale doesn't have a happy ending. Because her so called fateful husband failed the last test and she was destined to dir under a wicked man who put her under a spell of being in a frog's skin. In a way the two compare to each other in a sense that they both got cursed into being frogs. Only one gets a happily ever after and marries a prince the other dies in sadness and the husband is left weeping upon his almost wife.
-Gaby Gastelum

http://freeronin.com/gr_files/blue_rose_frog_princess.pdf

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I thought this version very close to the Disney version. Where Cinderella has to deal with her stepfamily and becomes the family servant, doing all the chores and errands. Having no time for her and being ridiculed for wanting to have personal time. But once the prince proposed to have a ball Cinderella knew she would go to the ball somehow and someway. As her stepfamily ruined her dress and told her not to go the ball, a fairy godmother comes to save the day. Granting Cinderella’s wish of being the most beautiful girl at the ball. But the magic spell only lasted till midnight, and as Cinderella runs off she lost her glass slipper. The prince search far and wide to find for a match of the glass slipper. Sure enough Cinderella was the only one that fit into the glass shoe. The prince and Cinderella got married and lived happily ever after.  I thought Charles Perrault version and the Disney version were very similar. In Charles Perrault was very much like Shakespeare writing. Through the language and speaking. I liked both versions and this story.
-Callum Syme

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Shelley Duvall's Rapunzel by Kenneth Bartz

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Shelley Duvall's Rapunzel by Kenneth Bartz

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Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre was a new experience for me. I was surprised to see many names of fame involved in the making of the series, but am also moved by the uniqueness of the presentation of the fairy tale. It had just the right amount of harm and love to create a story that would be wonderful at any child's bedside. It grasps and presents moral themes that all can see and learn from and is reminiscent of a rural bedtime tale. This film adaptation was produced in 1983, airing on February 5, a part of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre, in which she herself played. It was fashioned after the Brothers Grimm tale of Rapunzel, in which a young girl is taken from her thieving parents and raised by a witch, only to be (in a roundabout way) saved, or found, by her prince where they then live happily ever after. It is a straightforward tale of love and it's many forms as well as their consequences.

As I stated, this presentation gives the audience moral lessons in such a casual manner that one must almost accept them. The little play on impoverished parents ability to raise, the obsession of a hateful woman who longed for a child, and how that obsession itself is a barrier to a young girl's dream of freedom. More deeply, how her love flourishing (in some few seconds) brought about great change to her life and view of her mother, and the harm that decisions made can bring about to loved ones. The lessons are presented, as I said, on the surface, the exterior rather, so that the audience is free to pick and choose sides, but at the end there is a happy ending and blissful resolution, giving one a glimpse of a hopeful future.
Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmPr8_VKVM

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Shelley Duvall's Rapunzel by Kenneth Bartz

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Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre

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Roald Dahl: Interesting Takes on Normal Fairytales

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Roald Dahl: Interesting Takes on Normal Fairytales

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I chose Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes, this is because I grew up loving Matilda and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Within the book, Revolting Rhymes, there are six stories; Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, and The Three Little Pigs are all part of the book. Each story has new little twist than the ones most people know and love. http://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/stories/1980s/revolting-rhymes Fun fact of the day, the writers of the musical Matilda paid homage to Roald Dahl’s book Revolting Rhymes in a song called revolting children. The fact that all the stories are turned into poems, I think, adds to the storytelling aspect of fairytales. Roald Dahl has a special way with words when it comes to these stories. In each story he changes something from the “original”. In cinderella the prince does not turn out to be so nice and cinderella doesn’t marry that fella. Below is the link to find the PDF to the entire book by Roald Dahl.
https://vk.com/doc29170700_293148227?hash=843f0c864f358d3b80&dl=267841182d42962d59

The below picture is the cover of Roald Dahl’s book, Revolting Rhymes, it is an interesting one. The fact that the wolf is reading the stories to the children, who by the way look terrified, gives the audience a sense of what the poems inside will consist of. The poems/stories inside the cover are messed up and different from the ones we’ve come to know and love. The new versions written by Roald Dahl are for lack of a better word, interesting. The happy ending is there but not the way it normally happens.
-Zoie Spurr

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This is one of my favorite fairytale of all time. The simple storyline is that there's this king who kills his woman every morning after their night together. One day, a woman told the king a story before they went to sleep, but she didn't finish the story due to the sunrise. The king became curious about the story and kept  asking her to continue the story every night. It lasted for one hundred and one days and she became his queen. I really enjoyed this story because it shows that woman are intelligent and quick witted. Back in the days, woman were thought to be lesser than man and that they cannot fend for themselves. However, this fairytale proves that to be wrong and that woman can think for themselves.

This story has been translated into my different languages, but the first language was French. It got translated by Antoine Galland in 1717. He called it  Les mille et une nuitsand there were 12 volumes in the series. His story was the adapted Arabic's manuscript of Syrian origin and oral tales that he recorded in Paris.

Fun Fact
The story of Aladdin was told in one of the one thousand and one nights.

-Trinh Nguyen

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Anne Sexton was a great poet who was characterized by producing course, shocking, and mesmerizing work. She wrote confessional poems about abuse and mental illness. She talked frankly about the female body and sex, in a manner that could be mocking, crude, or reverent. Her work was critically acclaimed and at the same time vastly denounced.

Transformations was a unique work for her. It was her least out rightly confessional piece, though it contained pieces of her own story. It was written in 1971 as a part of the second wave feminist movement. The book is based on well-known Grimm’s tales. The new stories are sarcastic, gory, and narrated by a middle aged witch (a symbol that was greatly debated among feminists at the time). The book is also characterized by a dissonant quality since it contains at times ultra-feminist themes and some classically male value systems. I personally love the frank, sassy, inconsistent voice of the middle aged witch.
-Alison Koleski

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I selected the "The Uses of Enchantment" and actually found it super interesting because I am a psychology major and this has some topics of Freudian information in it. Bruno Bettelheim was a psychologist who thought that fairy tales had special symbolic terms that were used in dark fairy tales in example that was written by the Grimm Brothers. He believed children that would and could read these books and create their own reasoning's behind these terms and events that it actually would help them grab a better understanding of things. With being exposed to these things he believed that it would prepare them a lot better for life than others who did not have that type of understanding or experience.

For some reason the link to add photos is not working but here is a link to the image. My apologies. https://www.google.com/search?q=the+uses+of+enchantment&biw=1920&bih=918&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjO9J650pDPAhWCOSYKHbeYA7YQ_AUICSgE#imgrc=LRF223YhkEG8qM%3A

Other Articles:
http://gallimaufry.typepad.com/blog/2011/08/the-uses-of-enchantment-by-bruno-bettelheim.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Enchantment

https://www.ucy.ac.cy/nursery/documents/children_need_fairytales.pdf

-Dallas Hall

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I chose to learn more about the story of the wizard of Oz. This is by far one of my favorite stories and movies of all time. I use to watch it all the time as a little girl but I never ventured to learn more. L Frank Baum's version was very interesting to learn about. At first, I noticed only small differences here and there like the color change of the slipper from red to silver. I also noticed that the good witch Glinda frees the monkey from there curse which I thought was awesome detail to the story. I mean i knew the witch had powers but I must have missed that detail when i watched it as a kid. Its very interesting to compare the two and she what does make the cut of the movie and what does not. But also what factors of the story are continued to be passed down. It may be because the movie made certain things popular and therefore they become popular and are passed down over and over.

There is a link to a study website that goes in depth comparing the classic movie and the original story: http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz-by-l-frank-baum-summary-characters.html

Below is a picture of the cover of the original of the story.

-Aubrie Buechting

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I read the fairy tale feathertop and I had never head of it before. As I was reading it though it did remind me of several different fairy tales because of all the different aspects. The scarecrow that comes to life reminded me of the wizard of oz. Feathertop the scarecrow had to be smoking a pipe constantly to stay alive. I found this ironic because of the way it is written it seems so kid friendly in the way he describes everything.
You can read the story here: http://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/a-23-2008-12-13-voa3-83135842/128227.html

-Alexis

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I read a poem by Anne Sexton that she simply named Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Although it was in the format of a poem in stanzas, the lines didn't include a rhyme scheme, so the poem read like a story. It was the basic plot of Snow White and I was surprised by how much it followed the Disney version that I'm familiar with. It was the same concept of a stepmother and a magic mirror and Snow White living with the dwarves. The most significant differences are in the violent and disturbing details, like Snow White being strangled by some lace and the stepmother eating what she thought was Snow White's heart. Another important detail was that Snow White awoke from her sleep by coughing up the apple, not true love's kiss. I always thought that this was a detail that remained fairly constant across the renditions of Snow White, but in retrospect I can definitely see it being a Disney fabricated idea. I also found it very interesting that such a gorey, "classic" poem was written in this era (1960s-70s), because at this point it seems that fairytales were much more clean and
meant for children. After further research, I learned that Anne Sexton was well known for writing about "risky" topics like drugs, abuse, etc, so the style makes sense.
I found the poem from this link: https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/snow-white-and-seven-dwarfs

I like the image I attached because I always tend to imagine the Disney versions of these fairytales, so it's cool to see a different type of illustration.

-Mariana Chacon

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This is a book of some of the first collections of Negro folklore collected and published in this time period. This is a collection of what they used to call "big o lies", traditions, and stories told by slaves and the black community. This was a project Zora Neale Hurston started in the early 1930s when she went back to her hometown of Eatonville, Florida to gather these stories. These may be stories of ancestors in slavery, or may just be stories of "Jack" or "John" outsmarting the devil. These stories could be considered fairytales as many parents used them to teach their kids lessons but are not what most people think of when they hear the word fairytale. I don't know any of these stories except one about "John and dis frog"; the frog may have been the devil when he went to fetch water for his master. These show how cultures shape stories and fairytales.

-Ariel Patterson

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The Bloody Chamber
Angela Carter has a book of fairytale shorts that are far from innocent. Of course I had to look her up because this novel is titled The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories.
One of these other stories being Puss in Boots, about a cat that helps his master cheat at cards and get the girl. Who knew. Carters collection was published in 1979. The collection also offer other parallel but not reenactments (in her eyes anyway) of the "traditional" stories, even blending some symbols and themes together. Sounds very intriguing.
First edition cover art
-Cheyenne (CJ) Nielsen

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Feathertop is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in print in 1946 and has since been adapted into several other media forms including film, theatre, and opera. One film adaption (1955) starred actress Natalie Wood also known for her performance as Maria in West Side Story(1961).

Clip of Feathertop (1955):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CEwP-UQjWY

It's plot revolves around a
scarecrow by the name of Feathertop who is brought to life by  witch. He must puff on a pipe in order to stay alive and does not know of his origin. He falls in love with a local girl who is horrified when they discover his true form. *SPOILERS* Upon this realization he kills himself.
-Summer Solon

Audio Book of the Story:

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"Feathertop: A Moralized Legend" by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Unabridged reading of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Feathertop: A Moralized Legend". Published in MOSSES FROM AN OLD MANSE.

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Feathertop written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story

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The story I had always read and been told was the version where the Princess meets a handsome guy who she wants to marry. But, in order to marry him, the Princess must sleep through the night on a certain mattress which has a little pee under neath. She sleeps through the night and accomplishes this mission. One interesting fact I found online was that this short story has been told since the 1500s and has been around for every (well since then). This photo I love because it is exactly how I remember the Princess and the matresses form my child hood book my mom read me.

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I grew up always hearing about a fairy tale called “The Princess and the Pea,” but I never really knew much about it. I remember there was a movie based on the story, but that’s all I really know. For this assignment I choose the year 1985 from the Chronology timeline. In the year 1835, it says that Hans Christian Anderson published his first book about fairy tales, which includes “The Princess and the Pea.” I went online and found that it was a short story, and was able to read it in a short amount of time. The story is basically about a prince who searched for his one true love, but she had to be a princess. One night, during a terrible thunderstorm, a woman who called herself a princess, showed up on his doorstep. The Queen of the castle decided to put her to a test. If the woman was really a princess, she would be sensitive to the peas she put under her mattress. The woman did not get any sleep that night, proving she was really a princess. The prince married her and they lived happily ever after. It was interesting to see what this fairy tale was about, and now that I read it, I can kind of remember hearing bits and pieces from the story when I was younger. I googled the author and was surprised to see that he was also the author of my favorite fairy tale ever: The Little Mermaid!
-Veronica Nogueda
http://hca.gilead.org.il/princess.html

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I do not know much about Blue Beard but he seems like a very irrational person. In this this story he marries a young girl who he takes her virginity. Blue Beard has no rule and that is to not go into the forbidden room. This part sounds a lot like the first story in the Bible about Adam and Eve. Ironically the girl goes in the forbidden room and finds Blue Beards three previous wives dead. Blue Beard finds out about this and scars the girl for life with a mark on her forehead. Blue Beard though dies and the girl remarries the blind pianist. The marriage works out perfectly because the blind pianist cannot see the ugly mark on her face.

Joseph Marr

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Growing up I remember reading about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but it has been a few years since I have looked at it since. It is interesting to see how much I have forgotten in that time! All I really remembered was Snow White eating a poisoned apple that put her in something like a coma, and she woke up in the middle of the woods with the seven dwarfs. Although it appears that I had gotten some parts of the stories confused because the poison apple doesn't come into the plot until later... I had completely forgotten about the magic mirror and Snow White's mother turning herself into the evil witch because of her jealousy. The mother only did this because she ordered a huntsman to kill Snow White and when she found out that the huntsman did not fulfill that duty she decided to take the matters into her own hands and poison the child. Snow White was asleep for about a year before the prince that fell in love with her before noticed her in the clear casket in the woods by the dwarfs home. He kissed her and the spell was broken and they lived happily ever after!

-Shaye Haggerty

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I randomly chose and read Hans Christian Andersen's1835 'The Tinder-box'. I was actually quite amazed at the turn out of this story because I dint find a clear moral to it, except that love always wins. The story about how the solider kills the witch and keeps the gold and box to himself and using it to his advantage to see the princess and eventually end up marrying her, to me was very different fromany other fairytale I'ev read but if you're looking for the outcome you'd want if you were the solider than read this story. I also really liked that this story had dogs in it because I love dogs and I guess I got lucky enough to have a story with dogs in it. Andersen does a great job with telling a story with only the necessary details and makes it easy to read and follow with.

Read the story here!
http://www.andersen.sdu.dk/vaerk/hersholt/TheTinderBox_e.html

I really loved this picture of what the dog could've looked like because they depict it as and english bulldog and they are my absolute favorite breed of dogs.

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I read George Cruikshank's 1853 version of "Puss In Boots" from his "Fairy Library" book. I had never read or heard any versions of this story prior to this, but I remembered the Puss in Boots from the movie "Shrek" as a kid so I thought it would be interesting to read a story about who he was.

Surprisingly, I saw many similarities with the character's in this story compared to the character's in the movie Shrek, being that this story included a donkey (very briefly), as well as an Ogre, and a family of royalty. However, obviously the plot line was very different.

Also, I found the story itself to be very interesting because of the many fairy tale elements with magic, and of course a talking cat walking around on 2 legs with a pair of boots on, and the fact that a basic man ends up being able to live "happily ever after" with a princess because of Puss' clever tactics. I don't want to give a way too much of the story, but I did enjoy reading it. Cruikshank's version is the type of fairy tale I normally think of because of the elements of magic, talking animals, and a happy ending.

Lastly, his illustrations were all very detailed, which further added to the story by giving the reader a better feel of what exactly the situations throughout the story may have looked like. The image attached below is one of Puss walking around the kingdom in his full dress, hat and of course, boots. This image was a screenshot I took directly from the book where I had read it.

This is where I found the full story: https://archive.org/details/cruikshankfairyb00cruirich

- Cami Barnes

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From 1704 to 1717, Antoine Galland translated the Thousand and One Nights into French ("Les mille et une nuits"), and published it in a series of 12 volumes.  In English, this tale is better known as Arabian Nights.  This was the first European translation of The Thousand and One Nights story collection, which is a set of stories that vary in number and content between editions.

The stories are tied together by a common plot: a king has decided that all women are unfaithful.  He decides to marry a succession of women, killing them each the morning following the wedding before they are able to be unfaithful to him.  Finally, he marries a woman named Scheherazade, who tells him a compelling story on their wedding night.  However, she only tells him the first part of it.  Desperate to know how the story ends, the king agrees to postpone her execution until the next night, when she will tell him the ending.  Each night, she ends the previous story, and then starts a new one.  This goes on for the titular one thousand and one nights.  Different versions have different specifics for the ending, but they do all agree that for one reason or another, the king grants Scheherazade a pardon and sparing her.

Galland's version includes many stories that weren't previously recorded as part of the collection, including some very recognizable tales such as "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves".

~Laurin Gray

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The story I read was by Charles Perrault, and it was called Blue Beard. The story was about a man who had a blue beard ironically enough. No women in the town wanted him despite how vastly wealthy he was. He was married before but no one knew what became of his ex wives. He married one of the most beautiful women in his town due to him wooing her with his extravagant homes and objects. He goes on vacation and gives her all of the keys to his houses/closets. However, he tells her not to open the smallest closet at the bottom of the stairs. When he is away, her curiosity gets the better of her and she opens it to find the dead bodies of all of the blue bearded man's ex wives. She gets blood on the key to that door and since it is a magic key, the blood will not wash off. When the man comes home and sees the key, he plans to kill the woman. Moments before he kills her, her two brothers come to her rescue and kill the man. The moral of the story is curiosity killed the cat (almost). I really enjoyed this fairy tale because I had never heard of it before and I like to experience new things.
-Andrew Zlaket
http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault03.html

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In between 1855 and 1863, Alexander Afanasyev published Russian folktales, containing 650 traditional Russian fairy tales. Afanasyev is seen by many to be the Russian counterpart to the Grimm’s Brothers because his collection of stories was so vast and well-collected. 19th century Russia held major significance to their traditional, simple folklore that was passed along throughout their peasant countryside. His collection of these folk tales was the first major attempt to collect these traditional, cultural Russian stories, and therefore had to have played a major role in establishing a Russian cultural identity that could become universal; it legitimized peasant Russian culture. One of the Russian folktales that he put in his collection is called Tsar Saltan:
https://books.google.com/books?id=Bv71KbM_ViAC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

It holds many of the same motifs as the fairy tales that we have all known in our beloved fairy tales: evil sisters, a prince-like figure, the desire for a hero. Makes it seem even more like the counterpart to the Grimms!
- Morgan Soehl

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I decided to watch Once Upon A Time once more, to get the full story of Little Red. Little Red, has a red cloak that is enchanted to stop her from becoming the wolf, but she blacks out and doesn't remember it. She thinks the wolf is her boyfriend so she chains him up for the night, she eats him on accident when the full moon comes out. Her granny tells her that she is the wolf and she must run because the village is out for her blood. Little Red runs away and finds a clan of wolves, one of which being her mother. Her mother and wolf pack teaches Little Red to control her powers, and that she is not a monster. She learns to control it and use it for good back in Storybrooke. She ends up killing her mother on accident, because her mother wants to kill her best friend Snow White. The wolf gene has been passed down and Granny was a wolf as well as her mother. I love this twist on little red riding hood, it makes the story so much more interesting, and how the wolf gene is passed down and Granny had it too and tried to protect Little Red. - Alexa Martinez
http://www.ew.com/recap/once-upon-a-time-season-1-episode-15

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Into the Woods is a musical produced by Stephen Sondheim incorporating many of the well known characters from fairytales into one cohesive story. It starts with a  baker and his wife desperately wanting a child. The beginning of their story closely resembles "Rapunzel", where the parents steal from a witch and subsequently their child is cursed. The rest of the musical chronicles their quest to have a child free from the curse and "beat" the witch. Along the way they run into Little Red Riding Hood, Jack from "Jack and the Bean stock", Cinderella, and many other iconic fairytale characters, each trying to best fate and get what they wish for.  I was interested in this publication because it was the first of its kind. A musical that brings to light all that we know about fairytales but incorporating them with a twist. There was a movie remake in 2014 and today I would say that Once Upon a Time on ABC closely resembles the themes of Into the Woods by meshing the stories together. -Ellie Cline
http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/intothewoods.htm
http://stageagent.com/shows/musical/1284/into-the-woods

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I read the story Feathertop by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This story was printed in the 1840's. I was not familiar with this story. Just hearing the title of this story it did not strike me as a fairy tale title. After reading it I realized that it really did have some of the elements that  think fairy tales usually have. The story about a witch turning a scarecrow to life shows that transformation scene that accompanies some of the bigger fairy tale stories such as Cinderella.  The ending was a bit of a surprise for me. Overall I enjoyed the story. The story I read can be found on this website.

- Sarah Bolanos
http://storyoftheweek.loa.org/2012/08/feathertop-moralized-legend.html

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I decided to further research Alexander Afanasyev since I have not heard of his name before. I became interested in what publications he had written. During the time of 1855 - 63, Alexander Afanasyev published Russian Fairytales, which contained 640 different tales. This publication was one of the largest folktale publications in the world. He is well known for this collection. The first edition of the collection was published in eight fascicules which gave him the reputation as the equivalent of the Brothers Grimm.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleksandr-Nikolayevich-Afanasev
~ Xia Q.

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I decided to do more research on Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre because it sounded like something my parents bought me to watch when I was a child.

In 1982, Shelley Duvall aired one of the first cable tv series for children. In total she produced 27 fairytale stories, sometimes holding a role in them but mostly just narrating, hosting, and producing. Her fairy tales held a wide variety of cast members that were big attractions at the time including Robin Williams, Paul Reubens, Carrie Fisher, even Mick Jagger, and many many more. Her director choices for different episodes drew in the older crowds as well. For example, Tim Burton- one we are all familiar with- directed the Aladdin episode.

Duvall's stories had a twist that most kids were not used to during that time. Her stories were set in the older settings, with actual characters instead of cartoons filling the scenes, and the stories seemed just plain weird sometimes due to the humor that was not always intended for children. I haven't seen any of the episodes yet, but I'm assuming that they stories filmed related more to the older versions, like closer to the the early Grimm's Brothers' tales instead of the more recent tellings.

I thought it was interesting how Duvall was able to capture the attention of different audiences with her fairytales because most adults don't take much interest in fairytales, they mainly listen or tell them only when children are present. I think Shelley Duvall contributed to the modern day movement that is going on today, where everyone is putting their own twists on fairytales to try and grab the older generation's' attention.

I also found out that my parents had bought me this series on VHS when I was little, but that my dad had accidentally messed up the movie after watching it once because he messed with the tape trying to rewind it by hand. COME ON DAD!

-Gretel Machado

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I decided to research Charles Perrault because his name has come up several times in fairy tales, and I thought it would be interesting to read about the history behind the fairy tales that he has written. He was born in Paris France on January 12, 1628. He died in Paris, France on May 16, 1703. Before he was known as a great author and poet, Charles Perrault was a lawyer who was in charge of royal buildings. As we have already experienced in class, he is known for his writing of Little Red Riding Hood. He is also well known for writing Puss in Boots. An interesting thing about this is that he wrote these two stories, along with others (The Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard), for his children. Charles Perrault was not only an author of these amazing works, but he was a poet as well. The following websites are where I got my information.
http://www.biography.com/people/charles-perrault-9438047
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Perrault
NAME: Augustus Danielson

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I decided to do research on Bruno's Bettelheim's 1976 book "The Uses of Enchantment", because I had never heard about it before and I found out very interesting things about it. For example, Bettelheim was a psychologist who wrote the book to able to analyze fairy tales. I found that fact super intriguing, because I  always thought of fairy tales as something you could not analysis is psychological terms. According to him fairy tales can help understand the aspects of a person's maturing personality. The reason why is because fairy tales are usually designed to be told by adults to children. I really enjoyed reading about this, because it is something very different from the things I am usually used to hearing about fairytales. This reading is something I would highly recommend for someone interested in fairytales.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2907161?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2907161?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Link to the article I read about "The Uses of Enchantment".
-Michelle Sanchez

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So I read Gabrielle Suzanne de Villeneuve's version of Beauty and the Beast which was published in 1740. It seems that Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont gets most of the credit for writing Beauty and the Beast even though she wrote the "summary" in 1756.

Villeneueve and Beaumont have similar plot lines like six daughters and sons, the Beast asking for a daughter, and Beauty saying yes to the Beast's proposal after he asks multiple times before. Beauty ends up falling in love with him.

I like Villeneueve's version of Beauty and the Beast better. Her story is much longer than Beaumont's story (a whopping 362 pages) and includes more details. Some details included are back stories for Beauty and for the Beast. It turns out that Beauty is not really a merchant's daughter but an offspring of a king and a good fairy. She was switched because a wicked fairy tried to murder her. The Beast lost his father when he was young and his mother, the queen, had to wage war to defend the kingdom. The queen left him in the care of an evil fairy but when he got older she tried to seduce him. He refused and was cursed by transforming into a beast.

I didn't know Villeneueve's version and I found it very interesting. I was able to read 26 pages of it but not all 362 pages. (http://humanitiesresource.com/ancient/articles/Beauty_and_Beast-Final.pdf)

I had to research information from a couple of websites since I couldn't access the whole story. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast and http://talesoffaerie.blogspot.com/2010/03/debunking-some-myths-about-villeneuve.html)

I think it's funny how similar Villeneueve 1740, Beaumont 1756, and Sir Arthur Quiller's 1910 versions are. They all keep true to the 1740 story 362 page story but just super condensed.

Picture was found on https://www.tumblr.com/search/beauty%20and%20the%20beast%20prince

I really like this interpretation of Beauty meeting the Beast. Though the Beast is clearly modeled after Disney's 1991 film version.

~Laurel Reisch

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This version of Cinderella is extreamly similar to the Disney version that I had grown up knowing. The whole plot is the same, Cinderella is mistreated by her step family, goes to a ball, falls in love with the prince, she loses her shoes, mission to find the shoe, shoes owner is found, they get married happily ever after. However the big differences in this version is that it was far more detailed . It gave the whole back story on why Cinderella had been named that and why she was in her situation with her step family. The one thing that i thought was interesting is that cinderella does not speak with the mice or birds in this version! I kept expecting Jack Jack to come up and he never did. also Cinderella attended two balls not just one and the first time she left super early to twelve. All in all this was interesting and i could definitely see someone reading it to a crowd of little kids. This is an image of Cinderella, the animals used to form the coaches staff, the pumpkin used for the carriage and the godmother who is a dwarf (actually seen in the book by George Cruikshank)
~Allyson Murphy

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Red Hot Riding Hood directed by Tex Avery was made in 1943.  It is an eight-minute video that starts off like every single version of Little Red Riding Hood.  Little Red Riding Hood is skipping down the path in the woods to deliver her grandmother a basket of goodies.  The wolf was hiding in the woods wearing red suspenders waiting to eat her up.  Out of nowhere the grandmother, Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf start complaining how about this fairy tale has so many versions with essentially the same ideas and plot.  Tex Avery went outside the box to create a video of where the wolf is a big time celebrity in a city atmosphere.  Now, Red Hot Riding Hood worked at a nightclub and the grandmother was a rich widow living in an expensive city apartment.  The wolf was enjoying himself at the club and then witnessed Red Hot Riding Hood take the stage.

Instantly, he fell in love and tried to charm her with his good looks and confidence.  Red Hot Riding Hood ignored him completely and wanted nothing to do with the wolf.  The wolf followed Red Hot Riding Hood to grandmother’s apartment, but somehow beat her there.  The grandmother was in shock when the wolf entered the apartment and see couldn’t keep her hands off of him.  After attempts and attempts, the wolf got away from the grandmother by jumping out the window and landing on the street sidewalk.  He eventually went back to the club and saw Red Hot Riding Hood appear once again.  I really liked this version by Tex Avery because the wolf isn’t trying to eat Red Hot Riding Hood, but making the effort to treat her like a queen and be with her for as long as possible.  The grandmother shows the completely opposite attraction to the wolf then Red Hot Riding Hood does.  It kind of ironic how the wolf ends up being the prey for the grandmother compared to all the other versions when the wolf is trying to take advantage and eat Little Red Riding Hood.

Link to version of film I viewed
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x262srt_tex-avery-mgm-1943-05-08-red-hot-riding-hood_fun

- Sean Crotty

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I read George Cruikshank's version of Jack and the Bean-Stalk. The 1853 tale was very interesting to read because it isn't very similar to the version we have today. I remember the story differently when it was told to me as a kid. This version has a fairy that guides the boy along his adventures when dealing with the giants and the bean-stalk. It was good to read this version because it gives you different aspects and new material to really think about because fairy tales are full of interesting things. In this version a flower fairy and friends sing a charm to save the day from a giant, I don't remember this happening in my childhood version but it's fun to read.
I thought it was interesting that in this version of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, a Danish Giant broke into a castle and made Jack's father a prisoner.

Online book with other tales:
https://archive.org/details/cruikshankfairyb00cruirich

Picture: This picture is from the Cruikshank version of Jack and the Bean-Stalk, from the scene/paragraph when the fairies sing a charm at the giant. This charm made the bean-stalk tangle around the giants arms and legs saving the people on the ground.

-Bailey Wetherbee

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I read, and thoroughly enjoyed, Hans Christian Andersen's "The Tinder-box". I had never heard of this story until this assignment, but that is ok because I think that I would not have enjoyed it as much if I had read it as a child. It is a rather quirky story and rather difficult to understand. I'm not entirely sure of what the moral of the story is. Usually a character is punished for greedy or self serving actions. But in "The Tinder-box", the soldier is only rewarded more and more for his rather selfish actions. It was rather interesting nonetheless and I thought it made a good story.

http://hca.gilead.org.il/tinderbx.html

the above link is where I read the story.

-Russell Johns

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This version of Little Red Riding Hood by Angela Carter is a bit different form all the stories we have read in class thus far. In this 1979 version, Little Red Riding Hood decides to abandon all of the warnings she knows and talks to a hunter that comes out into the woods. In the end the hunter actually turns out to be the wolf, an Little Red Riding decides to join him. This version of the story is very sexualized in a very blunt manor which I found surprising. In other stories the sexual nature is masked by double meanings or has double entendres, but in this one it is very explicit.

This version had some common themes we saw in some of the other versions of Little Red Riding Hood. In one part of the story it talks about how a man went outside to use the bathroom and ended up turning into a wolf. In the versions we read it’s usually Little Red Riding Hood using the bathroom to get away but in this one, it might be the reason the man turned into a wolf Another thing that this story also had in common with some others was that Little Red Riding Hood ended up taking off all of her clothes and burning it in the fire. In class, someone poised the question of whether or not it was a digestion issue or a sexual one. In this version however, there is no mistake that it is a sexual act.

This version of the story is defiantly for a more mature audience but I really enjoyed it as a whole. A fun fact about it is that in 1984, this short story got adapted into a movie by the same name.

http://cathlena.org/UF/ENC1102/Carter.htm

The link above is where I read “The Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter.
-Jennifer Ramirez

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I looked into Giovanni Straparola’s The Pleasant Nights and was rather surprised by some of the things I came across. The Pleasant Nights was first published in 1550 in the Italian city of Venice, the first edition of it contained around 74 tales. Of those 74 there is about 15 fairy and folk-tales. The entire book is broken up into thirteen nights with each night containing about five stories with a few exceptions. The narration surrounding the stories takes place at a party on an island in which the stories are told as a form of entertainment, the primary narrators being the female party-goers.

While I did not have the time to read the entirety of this work I did run across something while reading the short descriptions of some of the tales. Fable Four of the First Night is described as the story of a prince who promises his wife that after her death he will not marry anyone that doesn’t meet her credentials. After her passing, the prince comes to realize that his daughter meets his former wife’s criteria and as such decides to take her for his new wife. The daughter escapes the kingdom in some way and ends up in a distant land wherein she marries the king of the area. The reason this stuck out to me is that it shares a lot of similarities to Donkey Skin and Allerleirauh which both feature a king falling in ‘love’ with their daughter after the passing of their wife and the daughter escaping to another land wherein she marries a king.

An interesting fact about this book is that it features the first appearance of Puss in Boots. Personally I find it a little hard to rectify the image of an Italian Puss in Boots when I have become so used to the Spanish influenced version of the character voiced by Antonio Banderas.

Link to version of The Pleasant Nights that I looked through: https://archive.org/stream/nightsofstraparo01strauoft/nightsofstraparo01strauoft_djvu.txt
-Megan Kittredge

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I read L.Frank Baum's "the Wizard of Oz" I honestly have never read the true story I've only watched the different versions of the movie like the one with Diana Ross. Reading the original story was very informative because I got to know true parts of the story that are not included in the movies. For example, the fact that the whole story is not a dream but in fact Oz is a real place that Dorothy really went to.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/66583/13-facts-about-l-frank-baums-wonderful-wizard-oz
the link above pulls out some more specific facts of the original story that aren't included in the movies.

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I read Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's version of Beauty and the Beast. This was published in the year 1910.  This version is very different from the Disney movie. I remember watching it once when I was little, but this version is nothing like the movie. In this retelling, Belle is only called Beauty, and she has six sons and six daughters, Beauty was the youngest. In this version, the father willingly gave Beauty to the Beast to spare his life. Also, in this version, the Beast proposes to Beauty, but she refuses, then later accepts.

A fun fact is that Gaston, the main antagonist in the Disney movie does not exist in this retelling!

This picture depicts the scene where Beauty and the Beast eat together. I like it because the colors are vibrant and the drawing is detailed!

-Ani Ehramjian

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This version of Snow White is the version that I grew up knowing. But in recent years there have been new versions of the story of Snow White, such as Snow White and the Huntsman, or the depiction of Snow White in Frozen. Even though the Snow White version I know best was the original version that came out on a TV, it is not in any sense the original or normal story of Snow White.

Fun Fact about the 1937 version of Snow White is that all the back ground scenes were done in paint.http://aretheyoldenough.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/snow-white-and-dwarfs-snow-white-and-the-seven-dwarfs.jpg

-Ryan M. Maldonado

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I read Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea". I have seen a few different versions of this story in my childhood and was curious to see if his version was in fact the same as the others. I wasn't too surprised to find out that it was similar to the others I have heard, but a few small details were different.

http://hca.gilead.org.il/princess.html
This image was cool to see because it is the maids making the bed with the 20 mattresses and eider-down beds.

http://hca.gilead.org.il/princess.html

- Dempsey Dandos