What are fairy tales?Origins, Functions and Contemporary

Existence

Learning targets

• I can investigate the relationship between media and historical/ contemporary cultures.

• I can critically discuss ideologies present in media.

• I can articulate how media messages influence and manipulate media.

The Origins & Function of Fairy Tales

• Intended for adult audiences.• Not for children, • Not to explain natural natural phenomena

or involve religion (myths/folk tales),• Not about real people (legends).

• Passed down through generations via oral storytelling tradition

• Originally from Europe, ca. 1600s • Victorian writers who revised tales for

children:– Hans Christian Anderson (Danish)– Charles Perrault (French)– Grimm Brothers (German)

Form / Characteristics

• Magic • Talking animals/ inanimate objects• Unknown time (“Once upon a time”)• Malevolent forces, often horribly

punished.• Good versus Evil.• Groups of 3• Beginning-Middle-End

Little Red Riding Hood

• Who is Little Red Riding Hood?

• What is her story?• How do you know her

story? • How does her story end?• Do you like this story?

Why/Why not?

Little Red Riding Hood

• Class reading of Perrault’s LRRHhttp://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault02.html

• Roald Dahl’s LRRHhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3uVQIhSYfY

• Pairs – Compare and contrast Perrault and Dahl’s versions of LHHR

• What ideologies are present?