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  1. Nov 2019
  2. Oct 2019
    1. nothing to do with fairies or happy endings. Instead, these are stark narratives about brutal living conditions in the nineteenth century.

      These stories were portraying the brutal ways of the nineteenth century

    2. In fact, the Grimms never intended the tales to be read by children.

      Their tales were made to be read by older people. Their targeted audience is older people.

    3. brusque, blunt, absurd, comical, and tragic, and are not, strictly speaking, “fairy tales.”

      Their way of writing fairytales are not like the normal type of fairytales we hear of today.

  3. Sep 2019
    1. "The Needles Road," said the little girl. "Well, I shall take the Pins Road."

      In different light are the needles and Pins supposed to represent something else or are they just needled and pins? Is there like a hidden meaning?

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    1. The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known.

      Art is not meant to be perceived in one way, it can be perceived in many ways. There is not one right way to perceive art.

    2. Attempts have been made to evaluate even music, architecture, and lyric poetry as imagistic thought.

      I believe that evaluating music, architecture, and lyric poetry are all forms of art since you can express what you are feeling. You use your imagination for all of these forms of arts.

    1. hasten its advent

      World Literature is just beginning and the author wants everyone to contribute to world literature in order to hurry its arrival.

    1. “They want my bacon slice by slice “To sell at a tremendous price! “They want my tender juicy chops “To put in all the butchers’ shops! “They want my pork to make a roast “And that’s the part’ll cost the most! “They want my sausages in strings! “They even want my chitterlings! “The butcher’s shop! The carving knife! “That is the reason for my life!”

      The reason he is alive was to provide food for others

    1. Upon seeing what had happened, she took the knife out of her son's throat and was so enraged that she stabbed the heart of the other boy, who had been playing the butcher.

      Does the stabbing of the heart symbolize something?

    1. Whether a student is writing about robots, vampires, suburban children or migrant farm workers, the fairy way bars no one from entry, education, or vital assistance.

      Fairytales have no restrictions, anyone could make one and include whatever they want in them. From talking about mythical creatures to talking about working.

    2. The extreme use of fairy-tale techniques defines my fictional work.

      The usage of fairytale techniques makes his work his. Using this method makes his work unique.

    3. As I studied the aesthetic techniques of fairy tales in old collections—on display, I quickly realized, in stories from Japan, Egypt, Korea, Germany, France, Africa, Ireland, all over the world—I realized that the hundred or so techniques described by Luthi in Fairy Tale as Art Form could be transformed to create a new template for contemporary literary fairy tales.

      As he studied different ancient fairytales from different cultures he noticed that these antique stories could be potentially changed to a modern version.

    1. Shakespear has incomparably excelled all others

      Shakespear has done it like no other, he has excelled in his writings to the point where he is still being acknowledged this day.

    2. Our Forefathers looked upon Nature with more Reverence and Horrour, before the World was enlightened by Learning and Philosophy,

      The Founding Fathers were really invested on a few things and didn't really open up to "evil" until later on.

    3. pious Frauds were made use of to amuse Mankind, and frighten them into a Sense of their Duty.

      This describes how some fairytales contain lessons and meanings behind the readings. Some fairytales are told to ensure that children behave.

    4. Besides this, he ought to be very well versed in Legends and Fables, antiquated Romances, and the Traditions of Nurses and old Women, that he may fall in with our natural Prejudices, and humour those Notions which we have imbibed in our Infancy.

      In order for an author to master the skill set to be able to write fairytales, he must be knowledgeable in different fables and Legends. The author has to master different types of writings as well

    5. because he has no Pattern to follow in it, and must work altogether out of his own Invention.

      instead of following a set of guidelines, like what a regular fairytale would include, he works with what he wants and with what he already has.

    6. Poet quite loses sight of Nature, and entertains his Reader's Imagination

      the Author loses his/ her sense of reality in order to entertain and enlighten the reader with mythical creatures such as the ones listed.