C LIT243 Study Guide - Final Guide: Donkeyskin, Chinese Cinderella, Catskin

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Comparative Literature
• Course: C LIT243
• Professor: Irene Sywenky

Document Summary

Andersen promotes what many readers might perceive as a cult of suffering, death, and transcendence for children. Lived during the romantic era in denmark, Role of the female in the socio-historical context. Rights of passage and coming of age, especially the age of 15, womanhood etc. Grandmother as an agent of knowledge for the little mermaid. Gender roles between the mermaid and the prince, Prince sees mermaid as a child, foundling , lets her sleep on the floor, Emphasis of appearance and status with shells on the fin, Sea witch tells mermaid her beauty will help her in her quest for the prince. Little mermaid is naive to cruelty of the human world. Cinderella is the most famous but not the most interesting in its structural analysis. Type 1 and type 2 what is the distinction. Cox categories 1) ill treated heroine, 2)unnatural father and 3) king lear.