1st Blog Assignment

Question 2:
I chose the Perrault version of LRRH. In this version, there are many different internal and external conflicts. For one, there is the internal conflict of the girl when she first gets to her grandmothers house. She hears the voice of the wolf, pretending to be her grandmother, and at first does not necessarily believe that it is her grandmother. Then she decides to go in anyway. This internal conflict suggests that she was very innocent and quick to believe anything she was told.
An external conflict is in the last few lines when she is describing all the traits of the wolf that are somewhat different then she'd expect her grandmother to have:

"Grandmother, what big arms you have!"
"All the better to hug you with, my dear."
"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"
"All the better to run with, my child."
"Grandmother, what big ears you have!"
"All the better to hear with, my child."
"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"
"All the better to see with, my child."
"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"
"All the better to eat you up with."

The obvious external conflict here is that the wolf is planning to eat her, and he does. He seems to have no internal conflicts about eating her and no guilt whatsoever.

Question 3:
When reading "Dances with Wolves", I felt as though the author was trying to get across a very specific point. This being that fairy tales evolve so much over time and through the ages. They become more and more modern as time goes on and start to fit what is deemed appropriate in each type of society we become a part of. She says, "we tend to think of fairy tales as timeless", and I think this is so true. We always hear a specific version of a fairy tale and just assume that is how the story goes and that is the correct way it is written, when most of the time that is far from true. Fairy tales are often changed because of the way people interpret them and react to them. Many people don't want their children hearing these stories the way they are originally written, let alone to read them, themselves. I find the point she makes, saying "chastity was a feminine ideal", to be most intriguing. This is because she is claiming that when men write these stories, there is little to no chastity because this was something strictly women believed in, especially in those days. Women believed in the institution of marriage; they were raised in convents and brought up a specific way. They were taught to be this way. I think this is interesting, especially if you compare it to the way things are in this day and age, when chastity barely exists at all.