FYS Week 6

Reading the other blogs from my FYS I have noticed they are very thorough and have much more thought than mine. They contain multiple paragraphs and pictures to match descriptions. The blogs themselves are decorated and colorful whereas mine is black, but I like it that way.  Other blogs have the information that was asked and more. Comparing to them to mine, they have more information whereas mine are short and sweet.

FYS Week 5

Snow White is a tale of maturation and growing up. In the Disney version, they add songs and adjust certain plot points to make it seem more mainstream and more for children. They change the scene where the queen asks for Snow White's lungs and liver and she asks for her heart instead. She also makes no mention of eating them. In the Story, the Dwarves have no names and are actually neat and tidy. The Disney film takes away most of the original motifs and turns it into a Damsel in Distress story. There is in fact only one attempt by the queen to poison Snow White as opposed to the three in the original story.

FYS Week 4

Someone can reach success with magic or marriage. Marriage is a very easy way to achieve success, if one marries the right person. However, success has a very different definition for everyone. Success to one may be wealth and riches, while success to another is happiness with their spouse. In fairy tales, such as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, success is achieved through magic. It is a common theme in these stories and will remain as such throughout time.

FYS Week 3

The original tale of Hansel and Gretel is a story of growing up. The children are abandoned, captured by an evil witch, and must think logically to escape. The MGM version keeps the basic motifs, but takes a few liberties of it's own. They share any qualities actually; the characters and plot are kept consistent from the original, but the film altered the ending slightly and added its own quirks. SONGS WERE EVERYWHERE IN THE FILM. The filmmakers probably added these to reach out to children. Many family films have songs and this would keep it competitive with the rest of the films coming out around the same time. The altered ending and plot points were added because the writers wanted to create their own version of the classic fairy tale.

FYS Week 2

A fairy tale has infinite definitions for an infinite number of people. Each person takes something different away from the stories they hear and creates a new definition of the term "fairy tale." I believe a fairy tale may be defined as an iconic piece of literature created to P.I.E. Persuade, Influence, Entertain. There are so many different versions of these fairy tales and none of them are quite the same. Each author, each storyteller, has his or her own methods of persuasion, his or her own morals to share, and his or her own ways to convey the story in such a manner that the story will never be forgotten. It is the duty of the storyteller to convey the messages they desire to be shared and those messages vary greatly depending on your own definition of a fairy tale.

FYS Week 1

I chose this seminar because I love to read and have always loved these types of short stories. Even before I was accepted at McDaniel I had read many Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Learning these stories gives an insight into entire cultures and gives us more knowledge of how we communicated different events and morals. The first week of class was great. I learned things I did not expect to even touch when first entering the class. I not only learned about adaptations of these fairy tales, but also where they came from, why they were written, who the audience was, and what the overall purpose of them was. I look forward to the rest of this class and learning all about these fairy tales.