ENG 222 Lecture 6: Lecture 6 - Blue Beard & Fitcher's Bird + Hansel and Gretel

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 222
• Professor: Andrew O' Malley

Document Summary

To reserve: course reserves, course code, list, ask for library. Sw and rapunzel were symbolic abstraction of concern over female reproductive circulation. Children are required for community to survive so they demonstrated what happens when females of age are kept away in towers/from suitors. Rapunzel shows disruption of circuit (refer to diagram from before). Rapunzel is removed from paternal home as infant. At age 12 (puberty), placed in a tower and isolated. After 12 + few years (marriageable age), prince arrives --> pregnancy. Driven from paternal home, at age 7; semi-dependent but not marriageable. Dwarves intervene as surrogate, non-sexual but male authority. Receives domestic training which she would have gotten at home for marriage. Witch/queen tries to kill her 3 times w/ beautifying items (for males): lace, comb; apple as forbidden (sexual) knowledge. In a coma for several years, allowing for maturity. Long interpreted (since perrault) as a warning against curiosity-- specifically of young female = concern over female sexuality.