New Stories
Take- An old castle, half of it ruinous,
A long gallery, with great mnay doors some secret ones.
Three murdered bodies quite fresh.
As many skeletons. in chests and presses
Mix them together, in the form of three volumes, to be taken at any of the water places before going to bed.
From reading this we had to create our own Gothic Recipe.This is an example of Chris.C Gothic Recipe.
take a nightmare and shroud it in mystery
Form it in the most horrosome setting dark, cold, sinister.
Take a victim pushed into this.
Press on with the terror
Which is the odd one out/why?
As a class we decided which fairytale was the odd one out and why, here are the following fairytales.
- Cinderella
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Snow White
- Sleeping Beauty
- Beauty (from the beast)
I thought that Cinderella is the odd one out because with her story her is more naturalistic, it hasnt got any evil magical characters although theres the step mother and two ugly sisters. But they are humans. However fellow classmates thought differently Red riding Hood was the odd one out because Red Riding Hood is the youngest, she isnt from a high status and she gets rescued by an ordinary person.
What are Fairy Tales?- we wrote about what comes to mind about fairy tales
- Magic
- Love
- Quest
- Prince/ Princess
- Damsel in distress-the women is helpless.inncoent,perfect,naive
- Morals-teaching kids whats good and evil
- Villians
- "happily ever after"`
As a class we evaluated that fairy tales could be outdated, it stereotypes boys always being strong and masculine and girls being soft, weak, helpless. As a class we had to read "There Was Once" and answer the following questions. article can be found in sirs blog "the Snow child"
- What is implied about the characters that traditionally feature in fairty tales?
Pricne, princess, beautiful character, always white, wealthy, woman are oppressed, jealous characters, villians
2. What expectations does an audience bring to this base on their previous experience of fairy tales
expecting quests, marraige, "happily ever after"
3. What new features has the author brought to the story and how do they help to entertain and make a point
making it more urban, ethnic, questioning the status of person,
Carter:
My intention was not to do 'versions' or as the American edition of the book said, horribly "adult" fairy tales but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories and to use it as the beginnings of new stories
The snow child
- she changes the meaning of death
- changes character
- no stepmother
- more bleque, dark, more of a sexual nature
- Bold, gothic colours
- graphic descriptions
- disturbing images
- detailed description
HOMEWORK:
Read Sadgroves post "The Snow Child" comment/ answer questions
Read "The Bloody Chamber" (page 1 - 43)
comment on this blog
Rosie,
The snow child seems to do what the article “there was once” had ridiculed against. There was no heroine, no good or evil, no quests,
ReplyDeleteNice blog Rosie. Very helpful as I missed the leeson. Fairytales do focus on gender stereotyping; the ones mentioned above obviously convey that.
ReplyDelete"The Snow Child" is a rather disturbing story, the actions of the husband makes the reader question the author's moral message in which she tries to display.
I found 'The Snow Child' disgusting, then later reader 'The Bloody Chamber' and found that that was even more disturbing. Carter seems to continuously express her feminism through disturbing sexual scenes <---- if thats what we're supposed to call them.
ReplyDeleteHowever am enjoying learning about fairy tales :D
Esmeralda ;)
snow child well that is disturbing and I still cannot figure out Carters purpose and aims in presenting an innocent story in such a way.
ReplyDeleteAisha
This has already been mentioned but I was also slightly disturbed by the tale. However I do understand the symbols that Carter portrays and their uses.
ReplyDeleteThe questions were actually quite helpful in allowing me to understand the uses behind the many symbols in the story such as the rose and the blood.
Roman A.
The Snow Child compared to Snow White seems completely different. There is no happy ending but the disturbing sex scene and it seems to show Snow White`s father`s desires which ruiens the original inocence.
ReplyDeleteTamsin