In Cask of Amontillado, the internal conflict is introduced at the start with the narrator stewing within his own mind about how he hated Fortunato for one too many straws of injustice placed upon the narrators back. However the narrator grins and bears more and more as he plots his revenge, growing to despise his "friend" more and more until he cannot bear it any longer. The conflict continues in a more external role as the narrator puts his plan for revenge into motion, tricking the drunk and coughing Fortunato down into his family crypt, where the narrator says he's left some wine, they continue down into the deep crypt, passing the scores of dead until they reach the end of the tunnel where the narrator has displaced the bones of his relatives and dug a hole into the wall, into which the narrator chains Fortunato. He begins to wall off the opening, all the while listening to the screams of Fortunato, this brings back about the internal conflict of the story, for the narrator has to stop to reassess the situation a few times before he convinces himself to finish the deed and walk away, leaving Fortunato buried alive under a lake, surrounded by the dead.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Blog assignment #1
Question 1:
The version of Little Red Riding Hood I found most interesting was the Italian/Austrian version, "Little Red Hat." What stuck out to me the most was the fact that instead of the story having a wolf, there is instead an ogre that deceives little red riding hood. The ogre serves as good symbolism for men taking away girls' innocence just like the wolf illustrates in other red riding hood stories. The story of "Little Red Hat" follows the basic format of little red riding hood that we discussed in class. Little Red Hat goes to deliver soup to her grandmother but is led astray by an ogre in the forest. One thing I did find very weird was what the ogre did after eating grandmother: "He went inside, killed the grandmother, ate her up, and climbed into her bed. He also tied her intestine onto the door in place of the latch string and placed her blood, teeth, and jaws in the kitchen cupboard" (Schneller). When Little Red Hat comes to the house, she is naive and does not question any of the actions of the ogre pretending to be her grandmother. In the end Litte Red Hat gets the reward for her actions when the orge ends up eating her in one gulp.
Question 3:
In the article, "Dances With Wolves," by Catherine Orenstein, the author discusses how the plot and themes of little red riding hood have changed over time. From it's begginings in France, Little Red Riding Hood ended with her death; "According to the plot, she has just stripped out of her clothes, and a moment later the tale will end with her death in the beast’s jaws — no salvation, no redemption" (Orenstein). During the first publications in the late 1600s and early 1700s, the stories reflected a time where it was looked down upon by society if a woman lost her virginity before she was married, and the plot is used to reflect these ideas of lost of innocence. By the 1800's, the Grimm brothers telling of little red riding hood ends with her escaping from the wolf and takes all the sexuality out of the story. This version of the plot that we are all more familiar with today, has a theme that teaches the audience about not disobeying. Feminist movements in the 1970's brought reworks of the original storys that reflected women values in society with red riding hood shown more as a heroine. But even old versions that have been made reflect the strength of women. Early oral versions were often told by women, and have several symbolisims that reflect this fact. "Such terms, symbolic of women’s work and skills, serve to remind us that these stories were once wives’ tales — that is, stories told by women — before that term came to mean a lie. Should it be surprising that a woman storyteller would cast her heroine as more clever than her adversary?" (Orenstein).
I can see how this works, but all these different revisions of the little red riding hood plot have given us different lessons that we can learn from.
The version of Little Red Riding Hood I found most interesting was the Italian/Austrian version, "Little Red Hat." What stuck out to me the most was the fact that instead of the story having a wolf, there is instead an ogre that deceives little red riding hood. The ogre serves as good symbolism for men taking away girls' innocence just like the wolf illustrates in other red riding hood stories. The story of "Little Red Hat" follows the basic format of little red riding hood that we discussed in class. Little Red Hat goes to deliver soup to her grandmother but is led astray by an ogre in the forest. One thing I did find very weird was what the ogre did after eating grandmother: "He went inside, killed the grandmother, ate her up, and climbed into her bed. He also tied her intestine onto the door in place of the latch string and placed her blood, teeth, and jaws in the kitchen cupboard" (Schneller). When Little Red Hat comes to the house, she is naive and does not question any of the actions of the ogre pretending to be her grandmother. In the end Litte Red Hat gets the reward for her actions when the orge ends up eating her in one gulp.
Question 3:
In the article, "Dances With Wolves," by Catherine Orenstein, the author discusses how the plot and themes of little red riding hood have changed over time. From it's begginings in France, Little Red Riding Hood ended with her death; "According to the plot, she has just stripped out of her clothes, and a moment later the tale will end with her death in the beast’s jaws — no salvation, no redemption" (Orenstein). During the first publications in the late 1600s and early 1700s, the stories reflected a time where it was looked down upon by society if a woman lost her virginity before she was married, and the plot is used to reflect these ideas of lost of innocence. By the 1800's, the Grimm brothers telling of little red riding hood ends with her escaping from the wolf and takes all the sexuality out of the story. This version of the plot that we are all more familiar with today, has a theme that teaches the audience about not disobeying. Feminist movements in the 1970's brought reworks of the original storys that reflected women values in society with red riding hood shown more as a heroine. But even old versions that have been made reflect the strength of women. Early oral versions were often told by women, and have several symbolisims that reflect this fact. "Such terms, symbolic of women’s work and skills, serve to remind us that these stories were once wives’ tales — that is, stories told by women — before that term came to mean a lie. Should it be surprising that a woman storyteller would cast her heroine as more clever than her adversary?" (Orenstein).
I can see how this works, but all these different revisions of the little red riding hood plot have given us different lessons that we can learn from.
The tale of "Little Red Hood"
Question 1:The story I chose to read was Lower Lusatia's Little Red Hood. I chose to read this version because, it originated from Germany and my mothers boyfriend also happens to be from Germany, so I selected this tale based upon that similarity. This story of Red Riding Hood did turn out to be intresting. Firstly, it explains how the little girl recived her hood. The tale explains that the Grandmother loved her grandaughter dearly and didnt have a clue what gifts to give her so "she made her a hood of red samite, and since that became her so well, and
she, too, would wear nothing else on her head, people gave her the name of "Red
Hood." This was a unique detail added within the story because every other version of this tale, that I have read, it is never explain how or why the little girl wears a red hood. As you continue reading through the tale we, the reader, learn that Grandma is ill and Red Hood is sent to bring her Grandma cake and wine in order to make her feel better. This was another different detail that caught my eye. It suprises me that the mother did not send soup, medicine, or vegtables verse sending cake and wine. It just didn't seem like a healthy thing to eat while your ill. As we continue reading the story like many other tales Red Hood is instructed to go straight to her Grandmothers and not to travel anywhere else. Of course Red Hood becomes distracted by the "wolf" who tricks Red Hood into traveling off the trail in order to go pick flowers. Meanwhile, the wolf sneeks over to grandma's, eats her, and dresses in her clothing in an attempt to eat the young girl. Once Red Hood gets to Grandma she questions her apperance
"Ah, granny! Why have you such long ears?" "The better to hear you." "Ah, granny! Why have you such large eyes?" "The better to see you." "Ah, granny! Why have you such large hands?" "The better to take hold of you." "But, granny! Why have you such a terribly large mouth?" "The better to eat you up!"
Ultimatley Red Hood gets eaten by the wolf. Red Hood and her Grandma and later saved by a hutsman who is able to cut them out of the wolfs stomach. The wolf than dies after getting filled with rocks. The moral of the story is an easy one to follow "do as your told or bad things will happen." However, Red Hood strayed off the trail on the way to her Grandma's in order to pick flowers for her. Most people would condome this as a kind and nice guesture. I feel like Red Hood should not have been punished (aka eaten) for picking flowers for her Grandma.
Question 2: The tale of Little Red Hood houses internal and external conflicts. One internal conflict that is present within the tale is Red Hood's choice to go pick flowers on the way to Grandma's. Red Hood was given direct orders from her mother to go directly to Grandma's house because, if she were to stray off the path she might risk braking the bottle of wine. Once the wolf suggested Red Hood go pick flowers she was quesionable to do so until she looked upon the beautiful meadow and said "If I bring with me a sweet smelling nosegay to granny, it will cheer her. It is still so early, that I shall come to her in plenty of time." Red Hood had to pay a price for chosing to pick flowers in the meadow; she almost lost her life by being eaten by the wolf.
One external conflict that occurs within the tale is upon arivving to her Granmothers house Red Hood
says, "Good-day!" but received no answer. This should have been Red Hoods que to not enter the home since her Grandmother did not respond. Yet against her better judgement Red Hood enter the house and is confronted face to face by the wolf.
"Ah, granny! Why have you such long ears?" "The better to hear you." "Ah, granny! Why have you such large eyes?" "The better to see you." "Ah, granny! Why have you such large hands?" "The better to take hold of you." "But, granny! Why have you such a terribly large mouth?" "The better to eat you up!"
Ultimatley Red Hood gets eaten by the wolf. Red Hood and her Grandma and later saved by a hutsman who is able to cut them out of the wolfs stomach. The wolf than dies after getting filled with rocks. The moral of the story is an easy one to follow "do as your told or bad things will happen." However, Red Hood strayed off the trail on the way to her Grandma's in order to pick flowers for her. Most people would condome this as a kind and nice guesture. I feel like Red Hood should not have been punished (aka eaten) for picking flowers for her Grandma.
Question 2: The tale of Little Red Hood houses internal and external conflicts. One internal conflict that is present within the tale is Red Hood's choice to go pick flowers on the way to Grandma's. Red Hood was given direct orders from her mother to go directly to Grandma's house because, if she were to stray off the path she might risk braking the bottle of wine. Once the wolf suggested Red Hood go pick flowers she was quesionable to do so until she looked upon the beautiful meadow and said "If I bring with me a sweet smelling nosegay to granny, it will cheer her. It is still so early, that I shall come to her in plenty of time." Red Hood had to pay a price for chosing to pick flowers in the meadow; she almost lost her life by being eaten by the wolf.
One external conflict that occurs within the tale is upon arivving to her Granmothers house Red Hood
says, "Good-day!" but received no answer. This should have been Red Hoods que to not enter the home since her Grandmother did not respond. Yet against her better judgement Red Hood enter the house and is confronted face to face by the wolf.
Blog Response #1
Question 1:
I read the True Story of Little-Golden Hood by Charles Marelles. The reason I choose this version because the tittle caught my attention since it said "True" and it turned out to be quite interesting. I also chose this version because in this version the things that we talked about in class are more or equally backed up in the text. What interested me about this version was that first of all the little girl in the story wasn't called Little Red Riding Hood and she didn't wear a Red hood. Instead, her name was Little-Golden Hood and she wore a "wonderful little cloak with a hood, gold- and fire-colored," given to her by her grandmother which was said to be "made of a ray of sunshine". I also found it interesting that he mentioned her name to being Blanchette, which to be sort of represents that she is pure, like what we talked about in class. It also caught my attention that when we said that the wolf might be a "man"was backed up in this version because the wolf calls himself a "Friendly wolf" and behaves himself around Little-Golden Hood like a "Good dog". From those two quotations we can infer that this man is working hard to get to LGH by being a gentleman, friendly, and acting with courtesy, making him look like Prince Charming. Of course we can't leave out that he asks her to "take off your frock and come lie down by me," which we can all agree on sounds a bit erotic for a grandmother to ask of her grandchild. I find it very intriguing that in this version it is the grandmother who rescues LGH, "Just at this moment the grandmother arrives, returning from the town with her long sack empty on her shoulder.
'Ah, brigand!" she cries, 'wait a bit!' Quickly she opens her sack wide across the door, and the maddened wolf springs in head downwards. It is he now that is caught, swallowed like a letter in the post. For the brave old dame shuts her sack, so; and she runs and empties it in the well, where the vagabond, still howling, tumbles in and is drowned.
'Ah, scoundrel! you thought you would crunch my little grandchild! Well, tomorrow we will make her a muff of your skin, and you yourself shall be crunched, for we will give your carcass to the dogs.'Thereupon the grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed." I feel as though the grandmother rescuing LGH and moving hastily to clothes on her, thus asking her "without my little hood where would you be now darling?" as if asking LGH what she would do without her innocence.
Question 2:
After reading the True Story of Little-Golden Hood by Charles Marelles I have come to one important conflict in the text and that is that LGH is in some kind of denial within herself. LGH first makes the mistake of not trusting her instincts when she meet the "friendly wolf" whom "she did not know in the least" and replies, "You know me, then!". She also makes the biggest mistake when she trust wolf in telling him where her grandmother lives when he asks "and where does she live, your grandmother?". In modern times this is like telling everyone on Facebook that you'll be gone from 6-8 so they can come and trash your place and take anything you want! Who does that, seriously! Anyway back to the text, I also noticed that LGH asks all of these idiotic questions like "how like you are to friend wolf" and all of the "Oh! What a _____ you've got Grandmother!" She's seen her grandmother a million times and she doesn't know the difference between her and the wolf? Really? Luckily for her, her grandmother rescues her in the end.
I read the True Story of Little-Golden Hood by Charles Marelles. The reason I choose this version because the tittle caught my attention since it said "True" and it turned out to be quite interesting. I also chose this version because in this version the things that we talked about in class are more or equally backed up in the text. What interested me about this version was that first of all the little girl in the story wasn't called Little Red Riding Hood and she didn't wear a Red hood. Instead, her name was Little-Golden Hood and she wore a "wonderful little cloak with a hood, gold- and fire-colored," given to her by her grandmother which was said to be "made of a ray of sunshine". I also found it interesting that he mentioned her name to being Blanchette, which to be sort of represents that she is pure, like what we talked about in class. It also caught my attention that when we said that the wolf might be a "man"was backed up in this version because the wolf calls himself a "Friendly wolf" and behaves himself around Little-Golden Hood like a "Good dog". From those two quotations we can infer that this man is working hard to get to LGH by being a gentleman, friendly, and acting with courtesy, making him look like Prince Charming. Of course we can't leave out that he asks her to "take off your frock and come lie down by me," which we can all agree on sounds a bit erotic for a grandmother to ask of her grandchild. I find it very intriguing that in this version it is the grandmother who rescues LGH, "Just at this moment the grandmother arrives, returning from the town with her long sack empty on her shoulder.
'Ah, brigand!" she cries, 'wait a bit!' Quickly she opens her sack wide across the door, and the maddened wolf springs in head downwards. It is he now that is caught, swallowed like a letter in the post. For the brave old dame shuts her sack, so; and she runs and empties it in the well, where the vagabond, still howling, tumbles in and is drowned.
'Ah, scoundrel! you thought you would crunch my little grandchild! Well, tomorrow we will make her a muff of your skin, and you yourself shall be crunched, for we will give your carcass to the dogs.'Thereupon the grandmother hastened to dress poor Blanchette, who was still trembling with fear in the bed." I feel as though the grandmother rescuing LGH and moving hastily to clothes on her, thus asking her "without my little hood where would you be now darling?" as if asking LGH what she would do without her innocence.
Question 2:
After reading the True Story of Little-Golden Hood by Charles Marelles I have come to one important conflict in the text and that is that LGH is in some kind of denial within herself. LGH first makes the mistake of not trusting her instincts when she meet the "friendly wolf" whom "she did not know in the least" and replies, "You know me, then!". She also makes the biggest mistake when she trust wolf in telling him where her grandmother lives when he asks "and where does she live, your grandmother?". In modern times this is like telling everyone on Facebook that you'll be gone from 6-8 so they can come and trash your place and take anything you want! Who does that, seriously! Anyway back to the text, I also noticed that LGH asks all of these idiotic questions like "how like you are to friend wolf" and all of the "Oh! What a _____ you've got Grandmother!" She's seen her grandmother a million times and she doesn't know the difference between her and the wolf? Really? Luckily for her, her grandmother rescues her in the end.
Blog Post #1
I picked "The True History of Little Golden-Hood" to write about. This one is quite different from other because the girl had a gold colored hood instead of red. The gold color could represent her innocence or naiveness. Another thing that is different in this version is that the wolf does not eat the Grandmother because she is out. The Grandmother ends up catching and throwing the wolf in a well, where he drowns. At the beginning of the story, Little Golden-Hood's mother told her not to talk to anyone she doesn't know. Then she runs into the wolf, who she doesn't know, and talks to him because he knew who she was. He even says that he is her friend, saying that he is "Friend Wolf". In this version, Wolf could be a metaphor for a man trying to take advantage of a girl because he tells Little Golden-Hood to remove her clothes and climb into bed with him.
A conflict that I noticed in this story was with the Wolf. He wants to eat Little Golden-Hood but he doesn't want to get caught. So he comes up with a plan to pretend to be the Grandmother that she is going to see, he dresses up and lies on the Grandmothers bed. When he tries to eat Little Golden-Hood, her hood burns him and saves her, then the Grandmother comes and throws him in the well. One thing that I found interesting was that Little Golden-Hood had no issues with stopping to tell a stranger where she was going or with taking her clothes off and getting into bed with her "grandmother" who look a lot like the Wolf.
Another conflict could be with Little Golden-Hood. She asks all these questions like "Oh! what a big tongue you've got, Grandmother!" to her Grandmother that she should know. Shouldn't she realize that there is something off about her?
Blog Post #1
Question 1.
I have read the Italy/Austria version of Little Red Riding Hood, entitled Little Red Hat. Unfortunately, this version of the story does not include a happy ending. Instead of a wolf, an ogre is the main antagonist of the story. Also, the grandmother and Red Riding Hood are brutally slain and consumed by the ogre. I particularly did not prefer this ending of the story. However, I did find some interesting points in the story. Red Riding Hood goes down a stone path to her grandmother's house, while the ogre goes through the thorn path to go to the grandmother first. I think that the stone path might symbolize a path of goodness and virtue because Red Riding Hood goes down that path with good intentions. In contrast, the path of thorns might symbolize malice and evil doing because the ogre goes down that path with intentions to kill both Red Riding Hood and the grandmother. When Red Riding Hood enters the house, she notices that the latch and various items from the cupboard were bloody and revealing to be body parts belonging to her grandmother. The ogre, dressed as Red's grandmother, orders Red to eat the various body parts. "Just eat and keep quiet!" the ogre orders to Red. Red obeys the ogre and eventually ends up being consumed by the ogre. Red's obedience to the ogre reveals her innocence yet ignorance in her character.
Question 3.
Catherine Orenstein has written an article entitled "Dances With Wolves." This article explore the story of Little Red Riding Hood as a story of seduction and the loss of innocence, instead of the tale of a young girl being saved from a wolf by a huntsmen. Orenstein explains the symbolism of the red hood as a woman's virginity and virtue. The Wolf represents a man who has sex with women and takes their virginity. "In the French slang, when a girl lost her virginity it was said that elle avoit vû le loup — she’d seen the wolf." I think that a really interesting point was made in the article. It is not directly quoted by Orenstein, but from the creator of Little Red Riding Hood, Perrault. Perrault quotes, "Now, as then, ‘tis simple truth — Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!" I think that this is a very interesting point made in the article. I agree with this quote. Usually, the most harmful are seen as someone who seems sweet and kind. Most use a "sweet tongue" to lure someone in, in order to perform immoral acts. The wolf in the story made himself seem sweet to Red. This resulted in her and her grandmother being eaten by the wolf.
I have read the Italy/Austria version of Little Red Riding Hood, entitled Little Red Hat. Unfortunately, this version of the story does not include a happy ending. Instead of a wolf, an ogre is the main antagonist of the story. Also, the grandmother and Red Riding Hood are brutally slain and consumed by the ogre. I particularly did not prefer this ending of the story. However, I did find some interesting points in the story. Red Riding Hood goes down a stone path to her grandmother's house, while the ogre goes through the thorn path to go to the grandmother first. I think that the stone path might symbolize a path of goodness and virtue because Red Riding Hood goes down that path with good intentions. In contrast, the path of thorns might symbolize malice and evil doing because the ogre goes down that path with intentions to kill both Red Riding Hood and the grandmother. When Red Riding Hood enters the house, she notices that the latch and various items from the cupboard were bloody and revealing to be body parts belonging to her grandmother. The ogre, dressed as Red's grandmother, orders Red to eat the various body parts. "Just eat and keep quiet!" the ogre orders to Red. Red obeys the ogre and eventually ends up being consumed by the ogre. Red's obedience to the ogre reveals her innocence yet ignorance in her character.
Question 3.
Catherine Orenstein has written an article entitled "Dances With Wolves." This article explore the story of Little Red Riding Hood as a story of seduction and the loss of innocence, instead of the tale of a young girl being saved from a wolf by a huntsmen. Orenstein explains the symbolism of the red hood as a woman's virginity and virtue. The Wolf represents a man who has sex with women and takes their virginity. "In the French slang, when a girl lost her virginity it was said that elle avoit vû le loup — she’d seen the wolf." I think that a really interesting point was made in the article. It is not directly quoted by Orenstein, but from the creator of Little Red Riding Hood, Perrault. Perrault quotes, "Now, as then, ‘tis simple truth — Sweetest tongue has sharpest tooth!" I think that this is a very interesting point made in the article. I agree with this quote. Usually, the most harmful are seen as someone who seems sweet and kind. Most use a "sweet tongue" to lure someone in, in order to perform immoral acts. The wolf in the story made himself seem sweet to Red. This resulted in her and her grandmother being eaten by the wolf.
Blog Post #1: Question 1
I chose to read "The True History of Little Golden Hood" because it sounded different than the rest, it turned out that this version was different, it had a happy ending, where no one but the wolf dies. However, the rest of the story was basically the same as what we went over in class, the wolf was still a metaphor for an aggressive man who preys on little girls and the story was still a cautionary tale meant to teach little girls to listen to their elders and never talk to strangers.
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