What is the key difference between Fairytales & Myths?

Fairytales teach moral lessons w/ everyday folk. Myths are cultural stories

Who were the primary storytellers of fairy tales?

Nursemaids, Governesses, and Servants

How did they change fairytales to fit childhood education?

Censored tales for adults to read to children

Which of the following is false regarding the view of children/childhood in Medieval times?

Recognized as a developmental phase

Which of the following is true regarding how children/childhood were seen in the 16th-17th centuries?

Upper class boys were affected by the changes

Which is false about the purpose of Fairy Tales?

Provide a world for children to gain purpose

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Fairy Tales History & Adaptations Review

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Review of A Brief History of Fairy Tales" and "A Theory of Adaptations" by Linda Hutcheon

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1
True or False: According to Hutcheon, theme is the easiest story element to adapt.
True
False
2
What is the key difference between Fairytales & Myths?
Myths are told over time and Fairytales are not.
They have different princesses and dragons. Also Myths has monsters.
Fairytales have Gods & Supernatural figures while Myths do not.
Fairytales teach moral lessons w/ everyday folk. Myths are cultural stories
3
True or False: Fairy Tales always had a religious moral point or lesson
True
False
4
Fill in the blank: Adaptation is repetition, but repetition without __________.
replication
being boring
extrapolation
experience
5
Who were the primary storytellers of fairy tales?
Other children and their older friends
Teachers and Scholars
Parents and Grandparents
Nursemaids, Governesses, and Servants
6
Hutcheron argues that "part of the pleasure" of experiencing adaptations comes from ...
cultural accreditation
repetition and recognition
romanticism and culture
economic gain and feasability
7
How did they change fairytales to fit childhood education?
Made them only reflect upper-class values
Removed all Christian expressions and references
Made them more confusing with no sequential structure
Censored tales for adults to read to children
8
Which of the following is false regarding the view of children/childhood in Medieval times?
Not Sheilded from adult activities (hard labor, public executions, etc.)
Recognized as a developmental phase
Recognized as less intelligent and smaller
Seen as little adults
9
Which of the following is not one of the three modes of engagement for adaptation stories?
Showing/Visually
Hearing/Audibly
Interacting/Participatory
Telling/Narrating
10
Which of the following is true regarding how children/childhood were seen in the 16th-17th centuries?
Childhood was not being seen as a developmental and psychological status
Upper class boys were affected by the changes
Changes had no affect on children at the time
Children were made to work alongside adults
11
Hutcheon compares adaptations to Darwin’s theory of evolution as stories evolve based on the cultural environment.
True
False
12
Which is false about the purpose of Fairy Tales?
For children to learn social mores, gender expectations, and morality
Emerged from oral tradition and passed down in the lower class and women
Primer to early education into a specific culture
Provide a world for children to gain purpose
13
True or False: A prominent writer from French Salons in the 1600's was Marie Catherine D'Aulnoy
True
False
14
Fairytales do all of the following except...
Give children ways to cope with growing up
Give bad endings
Entertain people
Remind people of the need for morals and values
15
True or False: According to Hutcheon, Adaptations are NOT palimpsests.
True
False

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