Marriage and family values in Asian folktales by Molly Ferguson https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales Please contribute a post from two of the stories we read for today about what these folktales suggest are concerns regarding marriage and/or family in these contexts. You may use a quote, paraphrase, or summary - put your names on your posts. en-us 2017-01-30 16:17:26 UTC 2025-03-13 01:54:04 UTC hello@padlet.com Values meferguson2 https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327715503 2025-02-13 16:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327715503 Tensions meferguson2 https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327715929 2025-02-13 16:45:06 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327715929 Complications/Reversals meferguson2 https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327716455 2025-02-13 16:45:28 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327716455 Urashima the Fisherman - Evan, Katie, Jasmine evanseid9 https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327854500 He values his family (is homesick), but also values his wife by not wanting to leave the Paradise

]]> 2025-02-13 18:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327854500 The Ugly Son https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327854843 Values appearance in marriage, looking for good-looking spouses.

Kady & Elia

]]> 2025-02-13 18:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327854843 Class Tensions https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327854902 In The Waiting Maid's Parrot, the waiting maid and Liang Hsü make eyes at each other across the room but they cannot marry. "though they could not exchange a single word, their affections were engaged" (91)


Elia and Kady

]]> 2025-02-13 18:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327854902 The Toad-Bridegroom - Annie, Allie, Emily, Hunter https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327855167 A childless older couple adopts a talking toad, and they are referred to as his foster parents. Their relationship is treated as normal and loving, despite the fact that the toad is magic. This implies that the normal family is comprised of a man, woman, and child. Thus, by adopting the toad, the couple could become a standard family.

]]> 2025-02-13 18:36:41 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327855167 Urashima https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327856257 Urashima took for granted what he had and then ultimatly regretted it. This value is valuing what you have and not to take it for granted. - Alana Quinten, Euiuzijn

]]> 2025-02-13 18:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327856257 The Toad Bridegroom - Evan, Katie, Jasmine evanseid9 https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327857323 Tensions between the 2 older sisters and the younger sister and the toad-boy

2 older sisters don't want to marry the toad (he's ugly), younger sister doesn't care about his looks; older sisters laugh at her

]]> 2025-02-13 18:38:13 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327857323 https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327857377 Urashima the Fisherman - Missing his family while being away. When he came back, he had realized that he had lost it all which caused him to suffer and ultimately lead to his death. -Avery, Gwen, Whitney, Trista

]]> 2025-02-13 18:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327857377 Urashima the Fisherman - Raven, Sophia, Grace, and Elizabeth https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327857700 "Urashima the Fisherman" conveys complications and reversals. The complication in question is that Urashima fails to make a definite decision between living in paradise with a wife who loves him unconditionally, and living in familiarity with his parents. It also conveys reversal when Urashima leaves the paradise land to return to his village.

]]> 2025-02-13 18:38:36 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327857700 The Ugly Son and The Waiting Maid's Parrot https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327858567 There is tension between different classes getting married which is shown in The Ugly Son when the family of gamblers and the rich family get married. The Waiting Maid's Parrot also shows this tension with the waiting-maid marrying a matron scholar.

  • Annie, Allie, Emily, Hunter

]]> 2025-02-13 18:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327858567 The Toad-Bridegroom (Elizabeth, Raven, Sophia, Grace) https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327858875 This story creates a tension that is related to marrying outside your class. The toad's foster parents are worried that not only is he a toad, but their family is poor while the family whose daughters he wants to marry is very rich, and it would not have been socially acceptable to marry someone who is different than you or holds a different position in society. Additionally, there is a tension created when the rich father is worried about displeasing the gods but not marrying one of this daughters to the toad, showing that it was important that a marriage not only be approved by both families but also by the gods, who were greatly respected.

]]> 2025-02-13 18:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327858875 The Fly https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327858992 In The Fly, there is a reversal of power from the usurer to the young boy in the story, as the boy ultimately succeeds in the end.

Elia and Kady

]]> 2025-02-13 18:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327858992 Value - Open-mindedness https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327859019 The Toad-Bridegroom teaches that good things happen to people that ignore looks in favor of an individuals merits and potential. The message of the story is that more than looks matter. The old couple and youngest daughter ascend after they show profound kindness and acceptance toward the frog.


-Sophia, Grace, Raven, Elizabeth

]]> 2025-02-13 18:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327859019 The Ugly Son - Grace, Elizabeth, Sophia, and Raven https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327860460 A gambler had an ugly son and wanted to find him a beautiful wife. To do this, he has to trick the girl's father into believing he was not born ugly but rather cursed to be ugly. Marriage among higher social classes is typically rooted in appearance.

"This made the young man outstandingly ugly. His parents were wondering how on earth they were to get him married..."

]]> 2025-02-13 18:40:52 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327860460 "The Waiting Maid and The Parrot" (Tensions) https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327861585 In this story, the waiting maid and Liang Hsu fall in love by first sight. Although the parrot points at the fact that they are perfect for each other it seems as if it can be considered forbidden love. Tensions arise when they are unable to connect. For example, both the bird and the waiting maid dying. Then the only way for them to see each other again is through resurection and a life beyond death.


Trista, Gwen, Whitney, Avery

]]> 2025-02-13 18:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327861585 Ugly Son https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327862231 The main tension here is the parents falsy advertising their son to a a rich family. When the bridegroom chooses his looks over his life, the rich family believes that he became ugly. Ultimately, it works out for the gambling family because the bridegroom recieves his father-in-law's fortune. - Alana Qiunten Euizujhn

]]> 2025-02-13 18:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3327862231 The Fly https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3333035789 In "The Fly," we see how a child can still hold much knowledge and be clever. The rich man thinks he can pull one over on the little boy; however, the little boy knows what he is up to and was prepared to trick him in front of the judge. After the judge made his decision, they were all able to laugh it off- including the rich man. This shows that their culture is able to value a child's wisdom and values a child more as a person rather than an object.


Taylor O'Dette

]]> 2025-02-18 16:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3333035789 Urashima the Fisherman https://padlet.com/meferguson2/nightingales/wish/3333039190 Urashima was in love with goddess and was able to live with her and her parents for three years. When Urashima began to feel homesick, his wife and in-laws gave him the opportunity to go back to his homeland and if he finds he wants rejoin them in paradise, all he has to do is squeeze the box but he must never open it. Even with explicit instructions, Urashima does not follow directions after discovering 300 years has passed and opens the box. He is then met with the realization that not only is his family and friends long gone, he can also never get back the perfect life that he had with the gods.


Taylor O'Dette

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