Animal Groom Stories:
- female usually believes her husband is beastial/monstrous
- marriage, trials, epiphany
animus - male, masculine side of herself / her sexuality; individualization
anima - feminine; communal
^social aspects of a person; every person has both within themselves.
In class, we breezed over the topic of animal groom stories. The most common example is the tale of Beauty and the Beast, a folk tale version of Cupid and Psyche. The village girl believes her husband to be a beast. The Beast must find true love to break his curse, so he keeps the girl in his castle. The two go through trials together. Some sort of epiphany is had in the end, love is realized and embraced. Viola!
Another example: East of the Sun, West of the Moon, a story I brought up in blogs past... so you're going to have to look though those....
Yet another example (I spoil you): The Frog Prince. Boy is made into animal by curse. Girl meets animal-boy. Girl believes boy to be bestial, or however bestial a frog can possibly be... Boy is saved by girl after trials, love, and epiphany stuff.
The end.
No comments:
Post a Comment