HUMA 2680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tex Avery, Acculturation
4 Apr 2016
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Traditional fairytales are oral, literary fairytales are written by authors. 16th century fairytales are found in italian literature, 17th-18th century they are found in french literature. Most fairytales have heroines as passive mostly sleeping or inactive, waiting to be rescued or helped. Red riding hood poor unfortunate girl who encounters a wolf on the way to her. The heroic man saves red riding hood and her grandma. It is originally a folklore that was collected by charles perrault. There are different versions in almost every language, every continent, every culture. Fairytales and folktales tell us a lot about life, society, our problems, and ourselves as a whole. They do not make sense in their literal forms but they do make a lot of sense if we focus on their implicit meanings and ideologies. People listen to these stories in their childhood and remember them almost throughout their lives they are very important and remain etched in the memory.
