Bluebeard by Charles Perrault

Literature: Fairytales homework

Choose a Bluebeard story–and build an interpretation.

What do you think the story means, and what clues are available in the story that supports your opinion?

Textbook: The Classic Fairy Tales, edited by Maria Tatar (Norton) *Second Edition

don’t forget use the textbook as the only source Textbook: The Classic Fairy Tales, edited by Maria Tatar (Norton) *Second E

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The Bluebeard story by Charles Perrault portrays the Bluebeard as a rich man with blue beards that makes most of the single women in the village to reject his proposals. His appearance brings a lot of challenges for him in his dating life. Nevertheless, Bluebeard has married several wives, but no one knew what became of them. After inviting a woman with her two daughters, he takes one of them as a bride (Tatar, 2017). After a month in her marriage with her newly wedded wife, Bluebeard embarks on a journey but leaves her wife behind with conditions. She was not supposed to access a specific closest within the house. The wife out of curiosity decides to open, and to his astonishment, she finds ‘the bodies of several dead women ranged against the walls. Bluebeard after noticing that her…

 

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