ENG234H5 : Cautionary Tales (Titles mentioned under each note)
Document Summary
Children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. Perrault is all about making royalty look good and make people admire the rich. Grimms are writing in the era of beethoven whereas perrault are writing in the era of. Grimms t ry to preserve the purest, most original form of literary tales (a lot of anti- Delarue: the story of the grandmother, pg: 32. Very scary for a children"s story, gruesome (how the child eats the flesh and drinks the blood of grandmother) Sexual connotation (little red riding hood undressing), use of the word slut (earliest meaning of slut means someone who doesn"t take care of their house) How does it make you sexual to be a cannibal, to eat someone from your family? (use of the world slut is pretty arbitrary) The child notices secondary sexual characteristics of the wolf (big shoulders, size etc. )
