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 Edition
Answer previewLiterary Interpretation of Bluebeard by Charles Perrault
The story of Bluebeard is about a man with a blue beard who married many wives but disappeared mysteriously and even though the colored beard made him ugly; he managed to attract girls. Bluebeard married a new wife and left her for business telling her to look after the house well apart from one small room, but the wife’s curiosity almost caused her to die, Maria, (162). The story has a moral meaning through its symbolic representation that curiosity is always costly since in most cases, it forces an individual to break rules.
Interpretation of the story
The Bluebeard story is a fairy tale since it portrays strange elements that this genre follows and this evident in the setting of the story and…
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