This essay will argue a thesis about how one version of a fairy tale differs from
another, and explain why this difference is important to how you interpret the stories.
This essay requires that you look carefully at the details and specific language of the texts in
order to support your thesis. No secondary sources are necessary for this paper.
Texts:
You may choose any two texts from either the “Little Red Riding Hood” unit:
“The Story of Grandmother”
Charles Perrault, “Little Red Riding Hood”
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Little Red Cap”
Italo Calvino, “The False Grandmother”
Roald Dahl, “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf” and “The Three Little Pigs”
“The Tale of the Tiger Woman”
“Tsélané and the Marimo”
Angela Carter, “The Werewolf”
Angela Carter, “The Company of Wolves”
or the “Snow White” unit:
Giambattista Basile, “The Young Slave”
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, “Snow White”
Anne Sexton, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Neil Gaiman, “Snow, Glass, Apples”
Angela Carter, “The Snow Child”
Pablo Berger, Blancanieves