EDRD 319 Spring 2011 1 Story Title: Rapunzel We All Long for a Friend Or Someone to Love Us
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Story Title: Beauty and the Beast P/G returns and tells the child what has happened, the selfless character volunteers to go to the beast to save the P/G Motifs: The P/G and selfless character go to the mansion where invisible servants Q212 Theft punished serve them at a magical table R13.1 Abduction by wild beast P/G leaves but promises to return to check up on selfless character, R9 Captivity miscellaneous selfless character is left in solitude W11.5 Generosity toward enemy Selfless character decides to talk to beast one day and loses fear of the D314 Transformation of ungulate animal (wild) to person beast, they begin talking everyday Tale Summary: A merchant has three daughters; his youngest is selfless and The beast doesn’t meet the selfless character one day and so the asks only for a rose when he returns from his journey. The merchant stops character goes to look for beast in a garden to get the rose for his daughter when a beast comes and Finds the beast dying and confesses love, breaking a spell put on the punishes him for thieving a rose from his garden. His punishment is death or beast who now turns into a beautiful human. to bring his youngest daughter to live with the beast. The merchant’s Human Essence: daughter agrees to live with the beast so her father can live. When the Kindness toward others you’re afraid of can result in a new friend father and daughter arrive at the mansion invisible servants at a magical Family love table serve them. The father leaves once the beast arrives and his daughter True love lies inside of you not the outer appearance lives in solitude for many days. One day she decides to talk to the beast Stealing gets you into trouble because she is so lonely. At first she is scared but then they begin talking Bibliography: about many things and she is no longer scared of the beast and begins to fall in love with him. One day the beast doesn’t come to talk to the daughter Ignaz and Joseph Zingerle, "Die singende Rose," Kinder- und Hausmärchen and she goes off to find him. She comes across the beast dying in the garden (Innsbruck: Verlag der Wagner'schen Buchhandlung, 1852), no. 30, and falls upon him in tears confessing her love. The confession of love pp. 183-88. breaks the spell put on the beast and he becomes the prince. They live happily ever after. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Das singende springende Löweneckerchen, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales -- Bare Bones: Grimms' Fairy Tales), 7th ed. (Berlin, 1857), no. 88 One parent/guardian and one selfless character Joseph Jacobs, Europa's Fairy Book [also published under the title European Parent/guardian goes on a journey, plans to bring back gift for selfless Folk and Fairy Tales] (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), no. 5, character pp. 34-41. Before getting home from journey, P/G steals the gift from a stranger’s property Wentworth Webster, Basque Legends, 2nd edition (London: Griffith and The property belongs to a beast that catches the P/G stealing from him; Farran, 1879), pp. 167-72. consequence is death or giving the beast the character the gift was for EDRD 319 Spring 2011 1 Story Title: Rapunzel We all long for a friend or someone to love us Motifs: Going behind someone’s back can get you in trouble Q212 Theft Punished True love conquers all R41.2 Captivity in a Tower H212 Recognition of verse by song Bibliography: R111.1.8 Rescue of princesses from witches Giambattista Basile, The Pentamerone; or, The Story of Stories, translated Q217 Treason punished from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor, new edition revised and edited Tale Summary: by Helen Zimmern (London: T. Tisher Unwin, 1894), pp. 56-62. Rapunzel is the story of a child who is raised by an evil witch because Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm Rapunzel, Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's her father stole crop from the witch for Rapunzel’s mother when she was and Household Tales -- Grimms' Fairy Tales), 7th ed. (Berlin, 1857), no. 12. pregnant. Rapunzel grows long, beautiful hair and lives in a tower; the only way up to the tower is to climb Rapunzel's hair. Rapunzel sees nobody but Isadora, Rachel (Retold and Illustrated by) Rapunzel (New York: The Penguin the witch until a prince wanders by one day hears her singing, and climbs up Group, 2008). her hair. The witch punishes Rapunzel, and later the prince is hurt falling Lang, Andrew The Grey Fairy Book (London: Longmans, Green, and from the tower; but eventually the prince and Rapunzel live happily ever Company, 1900), pp. 382-87. after. http://www.adlerbooks.com/fairyt.html Bare Bones: Child taken away for act of theft Raised by witch, kept captive in a tower Hair grows long in the tower and hangs down the window in order for the witch to climb to see her Prince walks by and sees/hears her, climbs up to see her Witch finds out about the boy and punishes Rapunzel by cutting her hair and throwing her out to fend on her own The boy is tricked by the witch and falls from the tower and gets hurt Rapunzel’s tears heal him Human Essence: Stealing gets you in trouble EDRD 319 Spring 2011 2 Story Title: The Tar Baby (Water-Well Version) Lazy character doesn’t help but still uses their solution Motifs: Other characters try to stop the lazy character but he/she tricks them into using it B299.2 Animals Dispute The characters then decide to make a tar man to keep guard J1117. Animal as trickster The lazy character gets stuck in the tar man and caught K419 Thief Escapes Detection- Miscellaneous The animals try to kill him for stealing their work W111.5 Other Lazy Persons Lazy character tricks them again and gets away J21.13 Never believe what is beyond belief Human Essence: Tale Summary: Working together to solve a problem Several animals that live in the forest go through a drought so they become thirsty. All the animals except the lazy rabbit decide to dig a well so Anger you feel when someone doesn’t help you and uses something you they can get water. The rabbit refuses to work and after the well is dug the worked hard on animals forbid the rabbit from drinking the water. The night falls and the rabbit sneaks to the well to drink the water. The next day they find the Tricking someone to get what you want prints of the rabbit so they have an animal watch that night for the rabbit. The need for something in order to survive The rabbit tricks the animal by singing and then drinks from the well again. The animals then decide to create a tar man to guard the well. The rabbit Bibliography: gets stuck in the tar man that night. The animals catch him and tell him how Botkin, B. A Treasury of American Folklore (New York: Crown Publishers, they are going to kill him but the rabbit tricks them again and escapes. 1944.) Bare Bones: Mcdermott, Gerald. Anansi the Spider: A Tale From The Ashanti (New York: Group of characters with one lazy tricky character Landmark Production, 1972). A dilemma that the characters work together to solve Schlosser, S. Spooky South: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings And Other Local Lore (Guilford, CT: The Globe Pequot Press, 2004.) EDRD 319 Spring 2011 3 Title: The Elves When the little men came back around midnight they found gifts for them instead of shoes to make and they were in joy. Motif Index: Q42.9. Q42.9. Cobbler gives new pair of shoes to poor boy and They danced and sang until they went out the door and was never says: You can pay me when you become archbishop. Generously rewarded to be seen again but he was doing well ever since they left. many years later. India: Thompson-Balys. Bare Bones Structure: Tale summary: poor couple/mysterious workers There was a poor shoe maker. poor was just about out of material The man was so poor that he thought he only had enough leather to poor left out what was left make one pair of shoes. workers come in-made items When he went to bed he had left the shoes sitting there for him on poor sold items-enough for two more his bench in the morning but when the next day rolled around he workers made items saw them complete. poor sold items-bought more material After he had opened his store a purchaser comes in and tries the poor soon became rich shoes on and they fit. poor made items for workers The purchaser gave the man more than what they were being sold works grateful and never came back for. The man was able to buy more leather for two more pairs of shoes. Human Essence: As he was doing more shoes that day he was seeing the pairs of shoes be complete when he would walk away so he got enough Poor shoemaker, being kind to them, having a great rest of life. money for leather for four pairs of shoes. Bibliography of Versions: Then one night he asked his wife if they could stay up and see who is making the shoes for him. "Brownie (elf)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Accessed on His wife agreed and they hid somewhere so that they couldn’t be September 11, 2006.