ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nuclear Family

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Symbolic abstraction about female sexuality (and regulating it: worry/anxiety about draining resources. 12 years old when she goes to the tower (age of puberty, important detail: kept in tower by witch (female, kept for a few years = rapunzel has reached marriage/children age, normal circuit for regulating female reproduction: Girl under father"s control eligible male suitor children. Unusual state because father replaced at a young age by the witch, woman at prime reproductive age is being prevented from reproduction = problem. Problem fixed by arrival of prince (p. 155 he will love me better . Prince impregnated rapunzel = nuclear family is reunited/restored at the end (with their children) Similar to rapunzel because normal circuit is interrupted by queen/stepmother"s arrival, snow white is expelled from father"s protection/home at age 7: ages of man model: 7 = end of helpless infancy (measured life in units of 7 years) Functional: she can be exiled and theoretically still survive w/o parents.

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