ENG 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Middle Ages, Profit Motive
11 Apr 2016
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Fairy tales are a combination of different versions of the story: cleaning up some of the details. Ex: the ideas of the fitcher"s bird being brought up at the end of the story (almost out of no where, while it may have been important in another version of the story) Started way before the printing press and continued long after: pre-industrial peasant cultures. Folk tales were for (used by) everyone: they were not just written for children. While fairy tales were used as lessons for children they were more popularly used or entertainment. Fairy tales did not have a profit motive (not for $) Fairy tales are not just myths there is a very specific reason why certain stories include information based off of the time and place that fairy tale comes from. Reader"s expectations of a fairy tale: ex: home away home, magic, hero vs. villain.
