Reflection
Over this semester I have learned a lot about fairy tales written by the Grimm brothers and others and the films by Disney. I learned there were a lot of symbols that repersent sex in the fairy tales. My favorite example of this would be the wolf in “Little Red Cap”. The wolf is supposed to symbolize a man who takes the virginity of a young woman. I learned that there were a lot of different versions of fairy tales the Grimms took and contaminated them. Contamination is when the authors change the story and elongates it. An example of this would be “Bluebeard”. There have been lots of different versions of “Bluebeard” but the one most similar written by the Grimm brothers was the “Fitcher's Bird”. Instead of a wealthy man looking for a wife, a sorcerer is looking for a wife and killing them by chopping off their body parts while Bluebeard slits their throats. I have learned to analyse a cartoon and describe how it fits into the psychoanalytic point of view of fairy tales. I have l