Indo European Folktales Study guide

Broad geographical grouping with a common linguistic background William Jones founded that Sanskrit was salary to Alan and classical Proto-London European no actual proof this group of people existed kinfolklore colloquial definition is a kinsperson taradiddle true or not? bookish definition how does a tale reflect the customs or set of a people Precursors to the Grimm Anne sacristan relation to the Grams Snow White Anne Sexton Focus fe gaynessful beauty Mirror motif Superficial anthropoid desire women is an object of beauty, man knows nothing else ab bug out her Mother-daughter affairQueen Is losing beauty with her senesce, grasping of Snow White because Snow White Is be advent more charming Happy ending Snow White is made to look alike a china doll she Is beautiful on the outside entirely empty on the Inside, an object to be viewed Similarities Real subject emergence Issues/themes ar similar Differences Narrative perspective Anne Sexton uses l & Identifies h erself as a middle age witch She critiqued patriarchate spoke to a contemporary New England audience New Issues/theme she spoke to a contemporary audience, she tells her tales In modern form applying them to todays company Angela C fine arterThe Bloody sleeping room and Other Stories Rewrote just about of the Blueberry tales She complimentsed to focus on the desires/thoughts of women Believed women could understand they had author Not romantic (as strange to Anne Sexton who was more romantic) Wrote Tigers Bride found on the Beauty and the Beast and Tigers Bride (merged stories) Her Version of Tigers Bride Narrative perspective include thoughts of characters Characters Bride coming of age pay back bad bewilder, gambles everything away Tiger puppet figure not sure what Hess Like on the Inside Father sells her In a game of cards, beast just wants to see her b be-ass He shows her his stuff and there are sexual encounters (because she turned on by the animal inside him and he brought out the animal in her) Themes of the bosh kindly restrictions, confinement, code of honor that restricted women, rejecting patriarchal ordering, outpouring of women (feminism), she doesnt go to save her father Regular mutation of Tigers Bride Enemy of patriarchate Patriarchy Ideals of the submissive wife Western Tradition Wives submit themselves to heir husband, husband is the head of the wife and savior of her body Russian folk The man is the head however the woman is the neck, the head will decipher the neck where it turns Less patriarchal than western society Wish Tales, completely the Wives tales promote patriarchal society Womens desires are irrational Female threats to patriarchy Pride (shrewdness) Insatiable and irrational desire Disobedience Women are etern entirelyy doing the opposite of what should be done Memento moor Re melodic themeer rove into paintings that you will casingually die Ex a feast, everyone is having fun, in a painting, and a skul l or crossbones as a reminder you are sacking to die Death tales reminders of death Deaths messengers Mourning A innate(p) process, assuage wo in general Have some sort of Lords Supper where we spate externalities the grief Monument Tale the Mustard SeedMelancholy Initialization of grief Dont get rid of it Tale The Place Where There Are No Graves Ate the dead bodies literally insideized death Parody seriocomical/satirical imitation Blatant discrepancies Criticizes certain Sheer Objects of Parody Disney righteous structure, technology, family structures, Americanization Fairy Tales Ideals of Beauty Methods of Parody Pop culture references Irrelevant and rude(a) humor Problems with Parody No alternative offered Must rely on what it ridicules American Dream Used music and color for the first cartridge holder Made propaganda during WI for the US Disneys Re lending of Fairy Tales Challenges Length Objectionable subject exit M oral exam murkiness Its hard to turn a pouf t ale into a film because the fairy tales are soon, theres not enough material, unreadable at times and some things are inappropriate Disney Formula Disney took oral tales Clear structure of trus iirthy and evil Heightened romance Omits a visual modality of the violence Romance re get ins sex Clear defined value administration Gender roles are traditional Cultural stereotypes engineering science and form Technology as a subject magic Visual elements vs He textbook Genre Hollywood musical Characterization Formulaic 19th snow Melodrama Innocent Heroine Gallant Hero Evil Villain Minor Characters secondary winding wives, animals, dwarves, sidekicks for common relief Family complex body parts Absent mothers Absent or inept fathers Americanization democratic Protagonists are all teens Domestic/submissive role of women Rags to riches with person-to-person ingenuity Made fun of nobility very a good deal American No direct violence between piece instead dyspnoeic objects (candle s) or animals Sublimation of Violence Irony Cinderella violence between animals instead of humans Royal Dahl Skipping background and analysis due to time constraints verse line form Plot somewhat disagreeent than pedigreeal but still similarModern details not from ancient past fit into modern society Tales linked together in a fairy tale military personnel Fairy tale audience what children want to hear, didnt take out much of the violence or crude stuff Woman as a victim making fun of this and gives his tale a feminist twist, women pee a sense of power Techniques of parody Form and style hoar with adult type of humor, uses a lot of slang, emphasizes the difference between tales past and now Characters and plot make us see the inconsistence in the original tale Know his version of Little Red riding punk Gilles De Raise A blueberry figure Murdered children Gunman the comminate Historical basis for the blueberry character Murdered several of his anterior wives and his fo urth wife found the body chamber Real event Fourth wife was Saint Therein Saint Therein (see above) Jane hoagy (the Piano) Had a blue filter on her piano The woman was damp and only used the piano as a means to notify Her husband (a blueberry character) chopped off her fingers so she could not return Margaret of Invader (the Heptathlon) Queen of Invader Defender of well known humanists and some authors in her writing Important figure in her time invention represents husband forgiving herRenaissance culture The Heptathlon Adulteress punishment Pretty high-pitched up in French nobility Progressive for her day Giovanni vacation (The Dodecahedron) Philosophies Poetry of the people Everyday people are close to temperament and the events in the past than the upper class Simplicity and authenticity Tales are something organic Monogenic One origin of the stories and then variations arose from that one version Polynesia Multiple origins of the same type of tale because the same people are going through similar experiences in diametric places Carol Jung Archetypes rise us ways to transformation and development Genres of Folktale Literature invention has historical grounding, is unspecific Ex Johnny Applauded Fairy Tales rely on magic to provide fantasy solutions to over come after problems Myths narrative projection make into a allegory, relationship deeper with the universe Fable moral, usually explicit, personification, very short stories, always have animals who parley, not like fairytale were they can talk through magical power but no magic is required for them to talk Everyday life situations Protagonists are animals Moral truth non magic Animals give Didactic function The Stake Tales The PanchromaticFunction of Folktales Explanatory tralatitious (accompany rituals) Social (help bring people together) Schools of Folklore Inquiry Origin Form import Style Origins Early Stages Distribution and dissemination of folktales Grimm Frederic Max Mueller Sch olar of Sanskrit solar mythology doesnt have anything to do with the sun, but the natural land Folktales are explanations of natural phenomenon Mueller Theodore Bendy German Orientals Studied easterly cultures Argued that tales began in India Folktales traveled through trio major avenues spoken traditions from merchants Arabic and Persian Translations Contact between Islamic and European Origins Historical and geographical method Reconstruct the history of a particular tale look at versions and triangulate what the common origin is Methodology assemble all the known variants of a tale from paper reoccurring theme, each element in a table Type a bunch of motifs strung together, a traditional tale that has a incomparable inning the motifs Form Two major schools Formalist Vladimir Prop Functions Actions that are interpreted by characters, how do these action move the tale, slow it down, or knead the overall structure of the tale Ex LORD meeting the barbarian? What function doe s this have?Functions happen in a certain order 31 possible functions, sequential, but not all functions appear in all tales Structuralism Levi-Strauss Myths reflect the logical structure of the human mind Binary opposition two things in nature that are opposed See formalist and functions above Believed folklore is a special form of verbal art Works of folklore and literature have diverse morphologies that folklore has specific structures Literary whole kit have an author, folklore works never have an author Literature is constant, folklore changes severally of peoples will Morphology a ascription of the tale according to its component part and the relationship of these components to each other and to the whole Max lithium & Style Stylistic Analysis Four Features of Folklore One Dimensionality Coexistence of a corporeal and enchanted world Happen to walk from a real world into an enchanted one Dependableness Absence of character motivation Dont exact to know the character hist ory to know their motivations Often found in fairy tales Lack of psychological depth Abstraction Extremes and conventions contrasts Ex turn eats an ox BC Hess so hungry Fixed formulas man living alone at top of a mountain, obviously is a troll Isolation ND Universal connection Lack of carry on relationship between characters On the other hand, everyone is connected to and affects everyone else Relationships either do not matter or you cannot escape them Style Performance concentrate on Approaches Focus of studies from social context to creative process of story utter Looking at the Changeling Definition a child who is exchanged by a supernatural being for a good human child unknown take the good baby and leave evil offspring bed clothing Why do these stories arise?Attempt to explain natural problems, material deformities Usually in the form off legend Luther believed in changelings Bethlehem Prefers fairy tales to other kinds of childrens literature Can learn about the inner pr oblems of human beings Children can better understand herself and complex world Fairy tales differ from childrens literature Parents impact the children most, then cultural heritage Hansel and Greeter Anxieties a child mustiness overcome Oral fixations Mothersource of nutrient to children, fail to meet oral demands Witchpersonification of the destructive aspects of naturalism Gingerbread houseoral greediness and giving into primitive satisfactionsJewelschildren transcend their oral misgiving and necessitous themselves of relying on oral satisfaction for security, and can free themselves of the image of the threatening mother (witch) Birdsall white, divine intervention, guidance Breadcrumbsstarvation, anxiety Expanse of pissingChristian allegory, symbolizes the way they have changed, maturity, baptism Teaches the lesson to explore your fancy, work together, and mothers are important Bluebirds Interpreted Blueberry tales as patriarchal power with violence, yet women can see thr ough the power of men and come on top with their sight Little Red Riding cap She is not yet ready for sexuality People say he only picked certain parts of the fairy tale to prove his sway Promotes themes of sexuality Cinderella split of mother helps a child to preserve an internal all good mother while the mother is not good at all, but permits anger with bad stepmother as a different person to protect child from being overwhelmed bullshit and the Beanstalk Transition out of the oral phase into the phallic phase Why?Boy is coerce to sell cow BC it stops giving milk Beanstalk installation is Jacks dream, growth represents growth of sexual power Giants re Oedipal projections, father is rival and has to fight with his father to take his place Resolution of Oedipal conflict in the end Sleeping Beauty Undines Female virgin water spirit Defined by having to marry a man on earth to become a human SST. George / Dragon Slayers Ideals of chivalry token includes red cross Symbol of Engla nd Golden Legend Jacques De Favoring Frau Whole Freer tranquil by Grimm Didactic function teaches hard work and respect for high being Typical woman loses distaff, goes underground and meets Frau Whole who tests willingness to work Folk Hero People identify with See virtue embodied in them Teach lessons to those in power Ridicule those in power Disney (Beauty and the Beast) vs He Tale Rose in both stories, but in Vhf, the male picks a rose from the beasts estate, but in the Disney film, the rose is a different symbol Different family structure in film and Vhf only child in Disney, in the book there are ternary daughters and sons Message is similar in both looks can be deceptive, dont try on by appearances Simpleton Stupid boy, youngest of all sons Ex The Flying transfer and The Rabbit herd Overcomes impossible tasks to marry kings daughter, gets help from an older wise man pro-social side) Motif of three tasks to overcome The tasks usually involve the boy having a confrontati on with the king ( makeing place in patriarchal society) Animal Brides The fight different identity, gender roles, type of person you are, antisocial identity, sexuality can be linked to independence or freedom, put ring on finger which is the symbol of a chain, skin as protection for women hands trying to take the skin personal violation, controlling women Incompatibility of two worlds, social classes, etc Animal Bridegrooms Morals keep promises Arranged marriages and coming to cost with an arranged marriage Wild ManOrigins India, Roman Empire, Grimm in Medieval Christian Europe Wild Man represents the natural, wild aggressive tendencies of boys and the boy must rely on the aggressive/courageous tendencies of wild man and rules of society to have coming of age Promote pro-social and antisocial tendencies to have coming of age Frame Narrative Story within a story 1001 Arabian Nights someone is telling a story in the story Stake Tales Tales of Buddha Reincarnation, Buddha in diffe rent times and places Characterized by humor and imagination Jean De la Fontanne Political Unmask corruption and dishonesty of the courtroom Used animals not humans Criticism of political figures without using call The Paid Mostly about animals Had morals Quick thinking Oldest accretion of tales in Sanskrit Nobility Teach young princes how to act vampire amongst fairy tale and legend Definition corpse rise from the drab at night, get blood from humans Similar to todays zombies In Christian legends were souls of pain, not baptized, referred to as sorcerers Souls from purgatory Eastern European source Alasdair Fantasy Socio-historical Reasons for Vampire Lore in Eastern Europe Improper decode Christianization of Eastern EuropeBubonic plague Vela Tepees Drachma Romania Prince Historical Vampire figure Elizabeth (Ersatzes) Battery Slovakia Countess Took virgins blood, drank it, took a both in it, preserve youth She wasnt executed because she was a royal, but was locked in the castle the rest of her life Jeanne-Marie eel Prince De Beaumont Taught in schools for all social classes Wanted to teach proper conduct for young women Frederica Nietzsche (On the Genealogy of Morals) favorable and Bad / Good and Evil Talked about power in the Catholic church Nietzsche said the Catholic church gains power by telling people they should be cake and submissive Freud Stages of Sexual Development Oral as a baby, you get pleasure through oral things, such(prenominal) as sucking on thumbs Sadistic/anal little kids find pleasure in making bowel movements Phallic Genital you want pleasure via genital contact of the opposite sex and same age Latency Period of sleep Oedipal complex Bang your mom, kill your public address system Fools vs Tricksters Fools teach lessons by making themselves a fool Tricksters teach lessons by making you a fool Recitation Readings Donald Hawse mirrors, Mine, or Ours? Perpetual, the Brothers Grimm and possession ofFairy Tales Nationalistic ownership re sults in stereotyping Universalistic Belongs to everyone, but is wrong BC were all products of different stuff We should individually own them not have by Disney or a corporation Soar Shaves The Concept of childishness and Childrens Folktales Test Case Little Red Riding Hood Jack Zips Breaking the Disney Spell Folklore body is a common effort we all own it together Marxist Corporate ownership of what should be communal The Morals/Themes of the Tales The Shrewish Wives Manipulating the women by threatening to go back to her fathers place Public immolation Weaken Grizzlier Humiliation Sexual = he made her large(predicate) Social = marrying a beggar Financial = marrying a beggar (previously a princess) Morally/ethically = makes her steal and get caught Women Who Rule Their Husbands Show the risk of exposure of letting women be in charge Wish Tales Plot Structure Wish(sees) granted Asks wife for advice Wastes wish Woman tells man what to do with the wishes, which is a mistake Di saster results from weak husbands Talkative Wives Motif wife who negotiation too much Lesson women are chatterboxes, talk too much dopey Wives Another female character flaw foolishness