Fairytales Discussion Questions

Fairytales Discussion Questions English 9

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Make sure you respond to the question clearly and accurately.

1. What important lessons do fairytales teach us? Be specific!

2. How have you applied a lesson from a fairy tale to your life?

3. How do you think fairy tales have traditionally set up gender roles—how boys and girls are expected to behave?

4. Do you think fairy tales will ever be written differently? Why or why not?

5. How do fairy tales give us a sense of history? Explain and give an example.

6. How can fairy tales be dangerous? Fairytales Discussion Questions English 9 H

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Make sure you are answering the question and writing in complete sentences.

1. Why do you think children need to hear stories about magic or enjoy them so much?

2. Why do you think Disney made light of such frightening fairy tales? What insight might Mr. Disney have had into human psychology? (How individuals think and experience thinking/emotions)

3. What do fairy tales seem to teach us about family, overall? Give an example.

4. Would you tell Grimm’s fairytales to your own children? Why or why not?

5. Fairy tales sometimes show us the darker side of ourselves, the villain in all of us. How is that true? Fairytales Discussion Questions English 9 GT

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Your writing should be thoughtful, clear and intelligent, as well as complete sentences and thoughts.

1. Why do you think children need to hear stories about magic or enjoy them so much?

2. Some people say gender is forced on us by fairy tales—girls locked in towers, princesses needing rescuing. Why do you think this is changing?

3. Fairy tales sometimes show us the darker side of ourselves, the villain in all of us. How is that true?

4. “Othering” is the act of keeping a group out of society by making them different and scary. In what ways do fairy tales OTHER groups of people or keep them out? Give an example!

5. Fairy tales sometimes show us the darker side of ourselves, the villain in all of us. How is that true?