ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Parthenogenesis, Antti Aarne, Gender Symbol

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

Document Summary

Version: start with one tale and then someone does something different with it. Variant: same tale emerging in different places at different times (one isn"t. Eng222 week six recap dependent on the other) 2 variants of the same tale: both come from folk tradition, perrault"s bluebeard : more extensive recodification, warning against female curiosity (sexual), tale was recodified as patriarchal policing of female sexuality. Doesn"t account for bluebeard as an unnatural destroyer of young women. Why police/restrict the curiosity of a married woman: grimm"s fitcher"s bird : closer to tale in oral form, more explicit female perspective. Outwits male victimizer and triumphs over him. No punishment for her curiosity took precautions and put the egg away before exploring/gratifying her curiosity. Focus on egg = female symbol, not focus on key = phallic, male symbol. Probably told by older female generation to younger. Symbolically abstracts (offers hopeful resolution to problem of male domestic violence)