Class Notes 10/8

*Tartar - Introduction XVII
- Pavarotti and Dickens
- We must give up the question, what is the best or correct response?

*Cinderella Rebuttals
- Beauty over wit

*Book List
-The Hard Facts of the Grimm Brothers by Maria Tartar

*Grimm version of the Cinderella ending
- Cinderella goes to the tree instead of the fairy godmother
- Ash-girl instead of Cinderella
- Prince coats the stairs with pitch to make the shoe stick
- Shoe of gold, not glass
- Midnight and pumpkin missing
- Sisters cut off toes and heel
- Birds perch on the shoulder of Ash-girl
- Birds peck out the eyes of the sisters, as if mutilating their feet wasn't enough
- Ugly sisters become a foil for the main character

*Stith Thompson
- Categorizes fairy tale themes
- Beauty and the Beast is 425 C - search for the lost husband

*"A book and story is about reading on both sides of the page." - MS

*Beauty and the Beast
- trials between the two main characters always about marriage
- "all marriage is rape - all about abduction" - MS
- abductor displaced into the rescuer
- story in a magazine designed for young women