ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Brothers Grimm, Century Media Records
16 Nov 2016
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Disbelief: ordinary suspicion, what you want to do to the audience is suspend their disbelief, long enough for their imagination to be swept away, horror has very good disbelief. The little mermaid: anderson invented it, not from the oral tradition, he does draw on mythology but they are original, disney takes it and adapts it, anderson ts in with fairytale genre: Magical transformation at the heart of the story. Main character of a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Transformation of crossing a threshold from one element to another world. Female curiosity is what drives her to the downfall (little red riding her walking off the path) Rewarded at the end for choosing not to kill the prince. Justice is not handed out in society. The reward isn"t what she set out to get, she wanted the love of the prince, and she didn"t get that she got a soul. Theres a lot of pain and violence: disney diverges.
