Fairy Tales
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Transcript of Fairy Tales
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Year 7 English, Term 1 2014
Once upon a time…
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What is a myth?
A myth is a story that usually explains
something about the world and involves gods and other superhuman
beings.
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Examples of Myths
• Baucis and Philemon
• Medusa’s Head
• Quetzalcoatl
• Daedalus and Icarus
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What is a Folk Tale?
• A folk tale is a story with no known author. Folk tales are passed down from one generation to another by word of mouth.
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Examples of Folk Tales
• The Nightingale• The Seventh
Sister• How the Snake
Got Poison• Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves• He Lion, Bruh
Bear, and Bruh Rabbit
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What is a fable?
• A fable is a very brief story in prose or in verse that teaches a moral or a practical lesson about how to succeed in life.
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What is a fairy tale?
• A fairy tale is a type of imaginative writing that carries the reader into an invented world where the laws of nature, as we know them, do not operate.
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Examples of Fairy Tales
• Cinderella• Snow White and
the Seven Dwarves
• Ella Enchanted• Cinder Edna
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Fairy tales are part of the oral tradition of literature.
What makes the fairy tale different from folklore, fables, and tall tales is its use of magic and fantasy.
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The supernatural characters in fairy stories are not always fairy godmothers or winged sprites.
They may be magicians, ogres,
brownies,
goblins, gnomes, or leprechauns.
dragonselfs,
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Often fairy tales involve ordinary people who haveexperiences of a supernatural kind and are affected by charms, disguises, spells, or other fantastic occurrences.
In The Sleeping Beauty, a princess is shut up by enchantment in a castle and sleeps for 100 years; the thick wood that grows up around the castle is penetrated by a prince who awakens the princess with a kiss.
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Although the stories were told centuries ago to entertain children, many were originally written for adults.
As their popularity spread, the fairy tale came to have a major influence on children's literature.
Authors of Fairy Tales include:
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Collected fairy tales and published Tales of Mother Goose in 1697
Born in Paris, France in 1628
Among the eight stories in this book are The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, and Cinderella.
Died in 1703
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In the early 19th century the Grimm brothers of Germany traveled around the countryside collecting stories.
Fewer people know about the lives of the Grimm brothers and how they went about the countryside listening to folktales as told by those who had heard them from their mothers and fathers.
Their 200 stories commonly called Grimm’s Fairy Tales have been translated into 70 languages.
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Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was born on Jan. 4, 1785.
Wilhelm Carl Grimm was born on Feb. 24, 1786.
The brothers went to school determined to study law as their father had done.
However, while attending school, Jacob became interested in the legends and both discovered that they enjoyed folk poetry.
Because of these interests, Wilhelm obtained a job in a library and Jacob joined him.
The brothers were born in Germany.
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The brothers
The first volume of Nursery and Household Tales was published in Berlin in 1812
A second volume was published in 1815 and a third in 1822.
spent some 13 years collecting stories "from the lips of people" of Hesse in middle Germany.
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Sometimes there were several versions of the stories, andthese the Grimms combined into one.
It must have been difficult to choose between different versions.
Should Rumpelstiltskin ride around the fire in a ladle, or should he hop around it on one foot?
live in the sugar housefound by Hansel and Gretel?
Should a wolf or a witch
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The stories were kept alive by the German peasants of the time.
Wilhelm died on Dec. 16, 1859 Jacob died on Sept. 20, 1863.
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Another writer whose tales became universally popular was
He was born April 2, 1805, on the island of Fyn, off the coast of Denmark.
He memorized and recited plays to anyone who would listen.
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The only things that held his interest were the theater, books, and stories
When he was 14, he decided to go to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark.
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Andersen's writings began to be published in Danish in 1829. His first works were poems, plays, novels, and impressions of his travels.
In 1835 Andersen published Fairy Tales Told for Children.
He published these short stories with little appreciation of their worth and returned to the writing of novels and poems. However, people who read the stories--adults as well as children--wanted more.
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In 1833 the king gave him a grant of money for travel, and he spent 16 months wandering through Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy to learn and gather more stories.
France
Germany
Italy
Switzerland
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Andersen published 168 fairy tales in all.
"The real ones come of themselves," he said. "They knock at my forehead and
say, 'Here I am'."
Some stories that are well known from Anderson are:
The Princess and the Pea
Thumbelina
The Little Mermaid
The Emperors new clothes
He died on Aug. 4, 1875.
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...the appeal and popularity of the tales, continue to
entertain us and we live happily ever after.
Although these authors lived long ago and far away...
Grimm Brothers--Germany
Perrault--France
Andersen--Denmark