We each brought in a classic fairytale which we read to the class and we analysed the content of these fairytales to find similarities and differences between them. We found that there are a lot of commonly occurring themes and ideas in fairytales including:
- The accepting of magic (eg. talking animals)
- Characters defined/named by their roles (eg. The King)
- Weak paternal figures and a fear of the matriarchal figures
- Deals, oaths and conditions
- Gruesome deaths
The six stories that were chosen and read were: Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Rumpelstiltskin.
We identified a lot of similarities between the stories such as fathers 'giving away' their daughters, bad settings in forests, repetition and the use of the number three and of course the classic 'happy ending'.
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