Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Wednesday, October 1






is for Jabberwocky.











Hans My Hedgehog:
  • lost in the forest and find a house
  • father hating the child (Oedipus)
  • East of the Sun
  • Judges story about 'Jephthah's daughter' and a rash promise
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Transformation of the beast
  • the #3 is important
  • iron shoes
  • daughter willingly giving herself for her father
  • husband and wife have a child (monster baby)
  • selfish longing for children- not caring if it's a monster

Motifs:

  • formulas- language: repetition of phrases
  • ugly duckling and negative outlook on self

marriage: the passing of property from one man to another- all marriage is abduction


Rose Daughter

Beauty

Rosemary's baby

Kafka's Metamorphosis

'willing suspension of disbelief' -STC

the motif of the beast marriage/ husband

  • bear
  • frog
  • beast
  • hedgehog

acts of violence lead to their happiness

reversal- Chaucer's Wife of Bath

crazy guy in HS-

  • Mariner Dave
  • Jesse Cheney: he was the 'crazy kid' from my HS. But he really wasn't crazy at all, he was a nice guy who was tortured because he was different. But one year, my best friend and I came to his birthday party and we were the only people there.

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