Another blatant example of the ideal role of men

Anderson may be showing the ideal representation of a man who never waivers through the trials and tribulations of life.

"Never come off when you dance," he told the shoes, as he tapped the sole of each of them with his hand.

It takes hardship to truly understand fortune

The skills or attributes of oneself often build a stage that will be used to judge all other people on

Mother has lost her optimism and fallen in line with the rest of the community

The definition of beauty comes from your surroundings and your culture. What would be beautiful in his family is not considered the same in the duck family.

Just mere appearance already has this duck ostracized, haha bird puns.

this is called the sunk cost fallacy. No matter how much you have lost it is still better to leave sooner than continue to wait longer.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Ones depression can grow exponentially and eventually it cannot be managed anymore.

One can interpret this as Anderson himself breaking through the story. Since men are general told not to cry they feel they do not have tears.

The Grimm tale has virtually the exact story of the Perrault tale except a few details. 12 instead of 7 fairies Castle falls asleep as soon as she is pricked by the needle while in the Perrault tale the fairy puts the castle to sleep Story ends when the prince comes to save them while the Perrault tale has an entire antagonist plot with the Orge mother.

Both stories have the antagonist killed by the vices they had prepared for the "sleeping beauty".

Again the chef gives pity and slays a lamb instead

The last story has Sun and Moon as the childrens names

Both stories have a weird obscure cause of the deep sleep.

In both stories we see an old woman as the catalyst for causing the princess to fall into a deep sleep

Snow White becomes prideful just like the step mother was.

Really out of place metaphor

Virginity is seen as an attribute of beauty, purity, and innocence. No wonder there are still convoluted ideas today about a woman's worth being tied to her sexual purity

What a weird and abrupt ending.

Folklore representation of love and its shallowness has always been funny to me.

Adam and Eve motif???

Envy really is more harmful to oneself than everyone around them

I notice the heavy theme of "sharing". Snow White took from each plate and the dwarf sleeps an hour in each bed. Logically picking one person to sleep with would make more sense since you are going to wake everyone up when you shuffle around, but instead the idea of sharing is shown.

In the Disney movies there is a decent amount of time spent on the explanation of their profession, but in the original the story doesn't show any importance to it. Keeping it very simple.

We can see the western christian influence right here. Grimm's brothers might have also had something to do with this inclusion.

Shows the bias the two men had that most likely severely altered or selected the stories they included in their editions

I wouldve liked to know how the Grimms made these choices a little more. Did they prefer one tale over the other? Was one more historically correct than another?

Folk tales are so important because each individual person adds their lives weight onto the story. Contorting it and changing to a point were each family bloodline might have a different tale from the next. It allows community edits and writing to create stories much more deep than one writer.

Summary

Intro How can we study World Literature when there are thousands upon thousands of books

World literature: one and unequal World literature can be compared to international economic theory. One culture deals with another culture in an asymmetrical relationship.

Distant reading To really understand world literature one needs to step back and look at literature from a distance.

The Western European novel: rule or exception? All modern novels follow a "literary law". There is always a compromise between a western formal influence and local materials. Meaning novels around the world take up a western structure and fill in details from where the novel is written.

Experiments with history The study of world literature is a single study that is one but not uniform. Novels around the world have impacts on different parts of the world, but their impacts differ on both scale and time.

Forms as abstracts of social relationships Moretti adjusts the law mentioned in the previous section by creating his version of the law. He sees the law as a triangle made up of western structure, local narrative voice, and local structure. Each influencing the novel differently. He also believes the foreign aspect interferes with the novel in a negative way, weakening it.

Trees, waves and cultural history The study of world literature by one person is impossible because of the language barriers. The scholars of a specific language will be more competent than the scholars of someone who doesn't know the language. There are two methods to analyse culture. A tree and a Wave. A tree is very structured. One language or country breaks into 3 then breaks into 6 etc. A wave washes over land. One country learns about technology or knowledge from the next, flowing like a wave. The law previously spoken about works because it captures the intersection of the wave and the tree. "Think of the modern novel: certainly a wave (and I’ve actually called it a wave a few times)—but a wave that runs into the branches of local traditions, [30] and is always significantly transformed by them."

Vladimir Propp was a Russian literary analyst who studied the structure of Russian folk tales. Propp believed a folk tale is comprised from a few of the 31 different functions in folk writing. He also concluded there are 7 different character types in folk lore. That doesn't necessarily means there can only be 7 different characters because a character can and often does contain more than one character type. While this is very beneficial in understanding genre as a whole, Propp's analysis of the Russian folk lore lacks any individuality of the stories. This leads to only partial analysis of a single story since context, point of view, or historical importance of a story is often overlooked.

The Narratologist. “Literary Theory: Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale.” The Narratologist, 19 Jan. 2015, www.thenarratologist.com/literary-theory/literary-theory-morphology-of-the-folktale-1928-by-vladimir-propp/.

Swan cygnets, baby bird name for swans, are grey and chubby from birth so it is understandable the reactions from the ducks.

Similar to the attempt to reform left-handed Catholics during the 18th to 19th century. Many left handed people also were whacked and scolded up into the 20th century.

http://www.rightleftrightwrong.com/history_recent.html

The mother duck seems to show ownership of the duck, unlike the Disney animation where the ugly duckling was instantly rejected.

Interestingly the mother duckling shows some remorse and hope even after being told the egg is not hers.

Seems like a very good way to foreshadow the course

enthusiastic or passionate

From what I understand our author is saying we are losing myths and folktales as we modernize as a group

Pig decides to proactively eat the farmer before being confronted himself to be sure of his survival. This is a debatable action since the pig had no concrete evidence of the farmers intentions, but can make a reasonable conclusion. Whether or not he should act on his assumed conclusion or wait for concrete evidence is my main take away from this poem.

Pig comes up with a completely reasonable yet not provable conclusion for his purpose

Metaphor for mans existential crisis.