Exam

Archetypal Lady in Finnegan’s Wake: Prank Queen

Portmanteau – multilevel word – from Alice in Wonderland – Slithey = slimy and slithery

Privileged numbers in fairy tales: 3 and 7

What is misplaced concreteness: Can human hair really hold weight?

Type 333 – Little Red Riding Hood

How is the collective unconscious active in fairy tales? Archetypes

“if you’re crafty you’ll get them both” Little Red Riding Hood

What are the three parts of the universal quest according to Joseph Campbell: Separation, initiation, and return.

Triple goddess: Maiden, mother, crone

Why is there no original? All literature is displaces myth

I’m not history I’m mythology

Grimm version of Cinderella – Ashgirl

Motif Index: East/West, Beauty, and Hans – Missing husband/beats groom

Which story does not relate to parents wanting to conceive?

Mythical mother/daughter duo: Persephone and Demeter

Significance of blue in bluebeard’s beard: oriental, fear, and otherworldliness

Who was one of the first talking horses: The Golden Ass

Spoonerisms

Which romantic poet thought everybody knew everything: Wordsworth

Beauty and the Beast = Cupid and Psyche

Bluebeard – curious female/ anti-female moral

Which Grimm story has a witch in it? Hansel and Gretel