ENGLISH 318 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lightning, Albus Dumbledore

• School: U of M
• Department: English Language And Literature
• Course: ENGLISH 318
• Professor: Lisa Makman

Document Summary

Tools for classifying folktales and igures in folktales: aarne-thompson classiicaion system. Animal husband (beauty and the beast, princess and the frog) The persecuted heroine: propp"s morphology of the folktale. Trickery by villain: jung"s theory of archetype. Harry poter, bugs bunny, briar rabbit, huckleberry inn, peter rabbit, mailda. Figure of wild old man, like gandalf, dumbledore, merlin. Animal husband tales: characterizaion of the heroine. Lily immediately loves the lion, but princess in frog king is reluctant to be associated with the frog: role of animal transformaion.