STUDY GUIDE

you need to know:

• Little Mermaid
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Cinderella
• Hansel and Gretel
• Beauty and the Beast
• Sleeping Beauty
• Snow White
• Rupunzel
• East of the Sun, West of the Moon
• The Juniper Tree

+commentary by Tartar

+ look at different versions of the stories

+Displaced FT's too

+ Humpty Dumpty/ Alice in Wonderland/ Jabberwoky/ portmanteau

QUESTIONS:

1. Who is the archetypal lady named in Finnegan's Wake that we discussed in class? OR more specifically the portmanteau- multilevel word A- Prank Quean
2. What is the privaleged number in FT's? A- 3
3. What is misplaced concreteness? A- Rupunzel- whether someone's hair can hold a human's weight- fallacy
4. According to the index (Arney Thompson) what is the fairy tale for 333? A- 333
5. How does the collective unconscious show its self in FTs? A- archetypes
6. What is the following quote from and who says it: "If you're really crafty you'll get them both"? A- the wold in Little Red to himself
7. 3 parts of universal quest according to Joseph Cambell A- 1) separation, 2) initiation, and 3) return
8. 3 parts of the triple goddess A- 1) mother, 2) crone, and 3) triple goddess
9. Why is there no such thing as an original? A- all lit is displaced myth
10. What do you recognize in someone when you bow to them? A- the divine
11. "I'm not history, I'm ___________!" said the genie in Aladdin. A- mythology
12. Cinderella's differences between Perault and Grimm? A- ash girl in Grimm version
13. Hans my Hedgehog, Beauty and the Beast, and East of the Sun are all _________ motifs. A- search for missing husband/ beast group
14. Which doesn't involve parents struggling to concieve? A- Bluebeard
15. Archetypal mythological mother/ daughter duo. A- Persephane and Demeter
16. Write a haiku about one of our chosen stories. hints: 3 lines (5, 7, 5 sylables); usually about nature, outdoors; declarations of images from story
17. What is the significance of blue in bluebeard's beard? A- otherworldlyness, fear... D- all of the above
18. What causes the transformation in Beauty and the Beast? A- love
19. Archetype of talking animal? A- Lucius from the Golden Ass
20. Why did cupid wake up when Psyche was looking at him? A- oil from the lamp landed on his shoulder
21. What is this: 'sisty ugler'? A- Spoonerism
22. Which Romantic poet thought that man knew everything at one time and then forgot? A- William Wordsworth from the Ode to Imitations
23. What mythical story did Beauty and the Beast come from? A- Cupid and Psyche
24. Bluebeard and genders: character flaws of sexes- an inquisitive women is worse than a murdering man
25. In which Grimm fairy tale is the 'witch' a character? A- Hansel and Gretel
26. Which author wanted to marry Little Red? A- Charles Dickens
27. What phrase clues you in that you are reading a fairy tale? A- once upon a time... and long long ago...
28. Who was Cinderella's mother in the Celtic version? A- Ewe