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  1. Oct 2019
    1. "Execute your orders, and then I shall go and see my children, my poor children, whom I so much and so tenderly loved," for she thought them dead ever since they had been taken away without her knowledge.

      a mother will do anything for her children and to be with them.

    2. only fall into a profound sleep

      Since the fairy couldn't undo the spell that the older fairy casted upon the young girl, she made her spell less dangerous as she could.

  2. Sep 2019
    1. hardly had she put the comb in her hair than the poison in it took effect, and the girl fell down senseless.

      in the modern version or at least in Disney's version the comb is the apple

    2. Then, as she was so tired, she laid herself down on one of the little beds, but none of them suited her, one was too long, another too short, but at last she found that the seventh one was right,

      this reminded me of the story Goldilocks

    3. Kill her, and bring me back her lung and liver as a token

      The queen wanted snow white killed just because the mirror told her she wasn't the most beautiful any more

    1. nd don't trust too much to your eyes

      meaning to not just rely on your eyes to see beauty. this is regarding the beast, that even though he looks terrifying, to not judge a book by its cover

    2. Here you'll be rewarded for all you have suffered elsewhere. Your every wish shall be gratified.

      It reminds of the saying that good things happen to good people

    3. he made a great effort to hide her terror, and saluted him respectfully.

      This shows the goodness in Bella. Instead of showing her fear because of how terrifying the Beast was, she greeted him as if he was a normal person.

    4. Bella, feeling sure that it was of no use, didn't ask for anything.

      This shows how Bella was beautiful on the inside as she was very humble and thoughtful towards others. Her brother and sisters were selfish and so quick to ask their father for the luxuries that they once had, whereas she didn't

    5. But she was really far prettier and cleverer than they were; indeed, she was so lovely that she was always called Bella

      One of our main characters is introduced, she is considered to be the beauty in "Beauty and the Beast"

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    1. poets are much more concerned with arranging images than with creating the

      That they use the structure of other poets work and change it around to make it theirs rather than coming up with their own original work. After I read this I thought of the articles that we read from both Moreiti and Propp.

    2. you thought his own were taken almost unchanged from a

      All forms of art are known to repeat itself throughout time and so it makes sense that poets use the art of others

    1. He felt so very happy, but he wasn't at all proud, for a good heart never grows proud.

      Even though he was happy, he didn't become conceited, but rather humble?

    2. etter be killed by them than to be nipped by the ducks, pecked by the hens, kicked about by the hen-yard girl, or suffer such misery in winter."

      The duck would rather want to die because he has been treated so badly that he feels he isn’t worth anything.

    3. He's my very own son after all, and quite good-looking if you look at him properly.

      The mother never judged her son and loved him as he was. She saw the beauty in him where the other duck told her he was ugly. This relates to reality because the mother will always love their children no matter what.

    1. Piggy did eat Farmer Bland, He ate him up from head to toe,

      The pig decided to eat the farmer because he knew that it was his life on the line. So instead of him being eaten, he ate the farmer instead.

    2. “That is the reason for my life!”

      The pig finally realizes why he came into this life and believed that it is because he is here to serve as food for humans. He describes the ways that they will use him for food.

    1. When her husband came back from the fields and saw everything, he became so despondent that he died soon after.

      The entire story uses irony to get it’s message across.

    2. There once was a father who slaughtered a pig, and his children saw that

      Children at a young age can’t identify the difference between right and wrong and simply just go by what they see they’re parents do assuming that it’s okay. In this case the little boy saw his dad kill the pig, assumed it was okay and decided to do it to his brother.

    3. Thus he was set free without any punishment.

      This is unfair. People should be held accountable for their actions and not let go easily based on if they choose an apple over the gulden. Whether It was a game or not, the council person obviously saw something wrong with it and should be further analyzed.

    4. threw him to the ground, and slit his throat open with a knife, while the assistant cook caught the blood in her little bowl.

      The kids are playing a dark game that brings out violence within their imagination.

    1. They seem happy about this and their work flourishes, reveals a spectacular aesthetics and ethics that suits their own thinking.

      The fairy way of writing seems to have a positive/ helpful impact on students. It helps them present their own thoughts within their work.

    2. transformed to create a new template for contemporary literary fairy tales.

      I want to say that this means that stories from all over the world are gathered and used as inspiration to make different story lines for fairy tales.

    1. Shakespear has incomparably excelled all others

      In this text Shakespeare is mentioned, and it’s interesting to think that still to this day classes teach students Shakespeare’s work and his philosophy. And in future generations, his work will continue to be taught to all ages.

    2. and must work altogether out of his own Invention.

      I agree that this is a more difficult type of writing, since the writer can make the story into anything they like. They use their creativity and imagination to bring something to life which in my opinion is way better than following a certain pattern or guideline.