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Fairytales, kindness and good deeds rewarded, but wicked deeds have…

- - - - overcomes the predisposed notions his family had for him, becomes hero of story
        
        "Sometimes it's this little urchin who will be the pride of the whole family"
      - family and kinship, sacrifice
        
        connects back to the feel-good morals
        
        "Enabling Disability": How do we explore the ways in which familial relationships are affected with a disability present in the family
        
        connects back to "Beauty and the Beast"
- - - - Flower or precious stone comes out of mouth every time she speaks because she was nice to woman at water fountain
        
        sister is rude and cursed to have snakes and toads come out of her mouth every time she speaks
        
        sibling rivalry
        
        In "Riquet the Tufted," element of looks vs. intelligence added
      - "the younger one, who was the very image of her father in kindness and manner, was one of the prettiest girls you can imagine."
        
        kindness and beauty conflated, one and the same
  - - - In "The Master Cat," the cat lied his way to the top of society in order to help his master. This led him to own a castle, marry a princess, and be given a new title.
        
        owning a significant amount of land and property can catapult you into a higher status and even affect who you marry
        
        series of steps, step-based story
        
        compared to more cyclical stories
        
        "Blue Beard" cycles
        
        Matrimonial: there is a marriage at the beginning and end of the story, showing this narrative is repeated
        
        Violence: the more women that become ensnared in Blue Beard's home, the more women will be subject to violence
        
        Wealth: One of Blue Beard's main attractions is his wealth, gets women this way time and time again
        
        social transmission
        
        Late 17th-century France was a strict monarchy with strict classes. This story offers hope that social mobility is possible.
  - - - trouble conceiving, concept that still applies to modern day
        
        Another modern idea: consent
        
        princess says yes to marriage because she wants Riquet the Tufted to bestow intelligence upon her, later realizes she was not in a position to know her answer to that question
      - "The Beauty in the Slumbering Woodland"
        
        love conquers all
        
        "all is beauty when we love, whatever we love is bright" --"Riquet the Tufted"
        
        Substitution
        
        substitution of the truth when the prince lies saying he is out hunting when he is really with the princess and their children
        
        human meat for animal meat when ogress wants to eat
        
        young fairy substitutes curse of death for curse of sleep
        
        Magical intervention
        
        "La Chasse-Galerie" ("The Flying Canoe")
        
        Flying canoe is source of magic
        
        example of an object being the source of magic rather than fairies or other humanlike creatures
        
        This story reassures us about the general human anxiety that comes with sleep. Sleep can be disquieting, as the difference between sleep and death seems slight. This story helps us distinguish between these states and shows us that sleeping for even 100 years will not hurt you.
    - - "A Pumpkin Seed"
        
        Short exclamations that draw us to the oral storytelling tradition
        
        Yesiree!
        
        Nothing!
        
        Oh!
        
        Generosity (nursing the hurt bird back to health) rewarded when main character receives pumpkin that creates luscious meals
        
        Mal intentions, on the other hand, have consequences. In this case, similar to "The Fairies," the consequence is that snakes and other vile creatures come out of the pumpkin.
        
        "a
        hellish mob of snakes, spiders, skinks"
        
        importance of food
        
        food plays key role in "The Foolish Wishes"
        
        main character wishes his wife would have a sausage for a nose, personification of food highlights its importance
        
        sausage nose means she cannot be queen, connects back to idea of aesthetics determining status
- - - - female empowerment, even
      - less superficial
      - speaks to the climate of the society in which these stories are written (late 1700s)
        
        sexism rampant in Perrault's work
        
        ugly sister in "Riquet the Tufted" is seen as unlovable even though she is extremely intelligent
        
        "The Little Red Tippet" moral: "Here we see that children so young, especially young girls, beautiful, striking pearls, fare very badly when they listen to just anyone." This moral essentially calls young girls naive.
        
        Related to both gender and social structure.
    - - superficiality of love and marriage in Perrault's stories
        
        constant pressure for women to look good and be fashionable, all about being perceived by men
    - - in "rags to riches," the main character acquires/achieves something that they were not assumed to be able to do
      - Modern examples
        
        "A Cinderella Story"