"Red Riding-Hood"
"Sleeping Beauty"
"Cinderella, Or the Little Glass Slipper"
"Puss-in-Boots"
"Bluebeard" and
The other three lesser known stories
1. Which is the better version of "Little Red Riding-Hood" for children, the Grimm version where Red gets rescued by the woodsman, or the Perrault version where Red is eaten up and left for dead at the end? 2.Which version shall we include in our textbook, and why?3. Is it fair to college-level readers to include only German versions and no "original" French ones?
4. What is the function of Perrault’s morals at the end of each story? Why would he have included them?
5. Why do these versions seem not to persist as the "version" that American children now know?
6. How much change do you have to make in a story before it’s a completely different story?
7. What are the characteristics of Perrault’s heroes?8. What does it say about the society that Perrault was entertaining that the hero was either born to or became part of the nobility?
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