In traditional fairytales, ogres are man eating beasts. The prince usually rescues the princess and they live happily ever after. 18.10.10 The main themes in a traditional fairytale are always either based on Romance/Magic & Evil. The main elements always are the antagonist (the bad guy), the protagonist (The good guy) and mainly sometimes the helper. In traditional fairytales the antagonist, the protagonist and the helper are often stereotypical, take Cinderella for example the
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In-Class Exercise: Discovering the Structuralist Framework at the Heart of Texts and Interpretation Identify the common conventions and text organization of narrative writing in the context of traditional fairy tales. I invite you to pretend that you have just read a hundred fairy tales (you may also consider films – contemporary or dated – that embody the fairy tale paradigm). Jot down a few characteristics you would find in more or less all one hundred tales. Do not worry about odd or uncharacteristic
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