ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Little Red Riding Hood, Red Riding, Snoring
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Oldest form of storytelling: usually involve magic (e. g wizards, talking animals, etc) Oral tradition spoken stories are simple. Sub-di(cid:448)isio(cid:374) of (cid:862)folk tale(cid:863), a story (cid:271)elo(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g to (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) people: circulated through societies and created different variations. Purpose was to entertain and delight, as a method of instruction. We (cid:449)ill (cid:374)e(cid:448)er k(cid:374)o(cid:449) the (cid:862)origi(cid:374)al(cid:863) stories si(cid:374)(cid:272)e they (cid:449)ere (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged as they (cid:449)ere (cid:272)ir(cid:272)ulated: there are 105 known versions of cinderella to date. Many fairy tales are translated from different languages. The language used is the print version of an older, oral story: shown in the language and grammar. Since stories belonged to the people, the ending may have changed based on who was being told the tale: the rich may prefer the hero/ine to profit from his/her struggle. Fairy tales represent the ideology of the culture in which they were produced. The (cid:858)(cid:271)zou(cid:859) tricks red into eating the flesh of her grandmother and drinking her blood.
