https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2 Yuqing Wu, Essay2 Storyboard en-us 2018-11-17 16:20:31 UTC 2026-02-02 06:38:33 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Removelove.png rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305556422 Love, a universal theme, always plays a significant role in fairy tales that aim at entertaining children and teaching instructive morals. Various fairy tales revolve around the romantic relationship between characters and convey a happy ending that “prince and princess live in a happy life forever”. What is the importance of a love element in fairy tales?  Some people believe that the romantic relationship in the fairy tales brings out children’s imagination of future lives and their yearn for the romantic love. It is true that happy endings of the love relationship, such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Frog King”, will provide people with a desirable envision about their future. However, the idea reflected by the love relationship in the fairy tales is more comprehensive and complex, including the dominance of roles in the relationship, future danger about marriage and broader representation about love relation.


How do the author talk about whether the women truly know about their partner?

those three tales work on different female characters
even though 

different tales 
1. beauty and the beast
beauty

]]> 2018-11-17 16:21:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305556422 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305557086 Most people believe that romantic relationship in the fairy tales reflects the positive images of marriage.]]> 2018-11-17 16:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305557086 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305557401 1. Positive relationship among the Beauty and the Beast
2. Animal Groom - "while sex may at first seem beastlike, in reality love between woman and man is the most satisfying of all emotions, and the only one which makes for permanent happiness." (Bettelheim, 16)]]> 2018-11-17 16:29:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305557401 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305557874 The Struggle for Meaning - "The fairy tale, by contrast, takes these existential anxieties and dilemmas very seriously and addresses itself directly to them: the need to be loved and the fear that one is thought worthless; the love of life and the fear of death." (Bettelheim, 382)]]> 2018-11-17 16:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305557874 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305558126 The love relationship not only forms the positive image about marriage but also emphasizes the dominance of female power.]]> 2018-11-17 16:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305558126 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305558180 1. Some people might believe that the masculine Beast plays a dominant role in the relationship (power in the castle)
2. Also, in the film, film makers tend to emphasize the role of the Beast
3. Go! Be a Beast - "we are shown him enraged, crowding the screen, edge to edge ... he could snap her between his teeth like a chicken wing." (Warner, 315)]]> 2018-11-17 16:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305558180 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305558669 1. But the female power from the Beauty cannot be ignored.
2. Animal Groom - "Only if she comes to love him truly will he be disenchanted. For the girl to love her male partner fully, she must be able to transfer to him her earlier, infantile attachment to her father" (Bettelheim, 284)
3. Animal Groom - "This is an evolution from a primitive selfish-aggressive sexuality to one which finds its fulfillment as part of a loving relation freely engaged in." (Bettelheim, 309)]]> 2018-11-17 16:40:25 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305558669 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559273 1. Similar female power can be seen in this fairy tale
2. "A Feminist in the Kingdom of Trolls"]]> 2018-11-17 16:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559273 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559414 The love relationship might develop into a completely different direction, which warns people about the danger of marriage.]]> 2018-11-17 16:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559414 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559522 1. It shows the negative part of the marriage and love relationship.
2. Animal Groom - "BlueBeard is a story about the dangerous propensities of sex ... securely controlled." (Bettelheim 303)
3. One of the main theme in "BlueBeard" is related to the danger of marriage and warns people about making decision toward the marriage.]]> 2018-11-17 16:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559522 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559817 1. Admittedly, this hidden theme is completely ignored by Perrault in his moral about the sin of curiosity. 
2. Or someone might argue that the failure of marriage is attributed to the curiosity of female.
3. Taming the Beast - "Bluebeard proclaims the inability of women to resist temptation and cautions against the perils of idle female curiosity." (Tatar, 159)]]> 2018-11-17 16:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305559817 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305560106 1. But the moral of curiosity remain doubtful among the critics due to the double standards between males and females
2. Taming the Beast - "female curiosity if castigated as the death principle whereas male curiosity is celebrated as a liberating, life-giving force." (168)
3. So, whether the curiosity is a weakness of female or not cannot be decided.
4. We cannot determine the causation of the curiosity and the failure of marriage.
5. But we must acknowledge about the danger of marriage mentioned in the "BlueBeard". 
6. Taming the Beast - "The heroine's discovery that even the most exalted and noble personage can prove capable of beastlike behavior stands as the central horror o the tale." (171)

]]> 2018-11-17 16:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305560106 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305560218 1. The retelling can provide further definition about love relationship.
2. Once there was a time - "Products of the imagination are set in a socio-economic context and are used ultimately to impose limitations on the imagination of the producers and receivers." (Zipes, 12)]]> 2018-11-17 16:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305560218 rachelwu https://padlet.com/rachelwu/s4wqpli685q2/wish/305560362 1. Love relationship can be defined in a broader way involving heterosexual and homosexual.
2. The purpose of the retelling and the alteration of characters might be related to the social change.
3. Therefore, love elements in the fairy tales can be interpreted as an indicator that reflects the change of people's opinion toward human relationship.
4. The importance of the Beauty and the Beast - "Beauty and the Beast has also been a favorite among men and women in the gay community as well." (Griswold, 17)


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