Why did you choose this class? What are you hoping to accomplish in the seminar? What is your favorite folktale or fairy tale of all time and why?
Despite the many different classes to choose from to fulfill my SIS requirement, this class immediately caught my attention. As a child, I spent more time reading and being read to than anything else. My grandmother and mother would bring out the old books of fairytales and I could listen to them for hours. They were for me, as with many children, a substantial part of my childhood and, like most, I always took them at face value. They were what they were and, quite simply, nothing more.
I have never broken down and analyzed fairytales before. The task seemed to promise that it would leave me with a new perspective that not only changed the way I view them, but have the potential to leave me viewing them in a negative light. However, I felt the same way about venturing to take any literature class and have since found that it is not as bad as all that. In fact, the literature courses I've taken, tend to be my favorite outside of those in my major. I’m hoping to get the chance to think about what I’m reading when I go through these stories again and see what I otherwise never would. The undertaking of reading several different variations from various cultures is sounds intriguing and I would love to see where certain renditions have come from and perhaps why certain elements were changed, added, or removed based on the societies that adapted them.
As per my favorite fairy or folk tale of all time, that may be a harder question to answer. I generally went through phases as to which story I liked the most. I tended to obsess over one and then move on from it. I suppose the most consistent tended to be King Arthur and Robin Hood, which, depending on what version you read, could be classified as folk tales, though are generally seen to be legends due to the prospect that either could have been based in reality. Growing up surrounded by my cousins who were mostly boys, we tended to play whatever was they wanted. When we weren't caught up in a game of Star Wars or power rangers, we were climbing in the trees as members of Robin Hood's gang or sitting around in a circle by the stone wall at our grandmother's house, which curved inwards, making it seem to us to be the perfect place for King Arthur to hold his council. No matter what was going on with our families, school, etc. we found that throwing ourselves into the wonderful worlds of the heroic and adventurous Robin Hood and King Arthur (either by reading or playing), allowed for us to escape, if only briefly, into another world.
I also loved Peter Pan. My fascination with the story developed when I was eleven or so, and was determined that I was quite old enough and had little intention of getting any older.
Despite the many different classes to choose from to fulfill my SIS requirement, this class immediately caught my attention. As a child, I spent more time reading and being read to than anything else. My grandmother and mother would bring out the old books of fairytales and I could listen to them for hours. They were for me, as with many children, a substantial part of my childhood and, like most, I always took them at face value. They were what they were and, quite simply, nothing more.
I have never broken down and analyzed fairytales before. The task seemed to promise that it would leave me with a new perspective that not only changed the way I view them, but have the potential to leave me viewing them in a negative light. However, I felt the same way about venturing to take any literature class and have since found that it is not as bad as all that. In fact, the literature courses I've taken, tend to be my favorite outside of those in my major. I’m hoping to get the chance to think about what I’m reading when I go through these stories again and see what I otherwise never would. The undertaking of reading several different variations from various cultures is sounds intriguing and I would love to see where certain renditions have come from and perhaps why certain elements were changed, added, or removed based on the societies that adapted them.
As per my favorite fairy or folk tale of all time, that may be a harder question to answer. I generally went through phases as to which story I liked the most. I tended to obsess over one and then move on from it. I suppose the most consistent tended to be King Arthur and Robin Hood, which, depending on what version you read, could be classified as folk tales, though are generally seen to be legends due to the prospect that either could have been based in reality. Growing up surrounded by my cousins who were mostly boys, we tended to play whatever was they wanted. When we weren't caught up in a game of Star Wars or power rangers, we were climbing in the trees as members of Robin Hood's gang or sitting around in a circle by the stone wall at our grandmother's house, which curved inwards, making it seem to us to be the perfect place for King Arthur to hold his council. No matter what was going on with our families, school, etc. we found that throwing ourselves into the wonderful worlds of the heroic and adventurous Robin Hood and King Arthur (either by reading or playing), allowed for us to escape, if only briefly, into another world.
I also loved Peter Pan. My fascination with the story developed when I was eleven or so, and was determined that I was quite old enough and had little intention of getting any older.
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