Fantasy and Fairy Tale

|Fantasy and Fairy Tale                                                                                                                       |
|Assignment# 2 (25%)                                                                                                                         |
|Due: Week 10 – Tuesday, November 13th,   2012                                                                                                 |
|A late penalty of 10% per day will be applied to all late assignments.                                                                       |
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|Select and answer one of the following questions.   Your response should be between 3-4 pages, typed, double spaced, and printed in size 12   |
|fonts. Your responses must include specific references to the films and/or stories in the textbook.                                         |
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|In the essay “What Fairy Tales Tell Us,” Alison Lurie writes, “Though they [fairy tales] can and do entertain children, we will do well to   |
|listen seriously to what they tell us about the real world we live in” (366).   Examine three (3) specific fairy tales and discuss the       |
|reflection of the social values of the times and/or societies in which they were written.                                                   |
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|In his review of Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Frank Kermode writes, “It would be hard to exaggerate the verve, the fun, the inventiveness |
|of Rushdie’s telling of his tale. Every phrase of it is comically adorned”.     Explore humour in Haroun and the Sea of...