- 500 words (you may go 10% over or under this word count)
- Select one traditional fairy tale and one revisionist fairy tale OR two traditional fairy tales OR two revisionist fairy tales and engage in a critical close reading on a fairy tale convention, character, etc., connecting the two texts
- You must have a coherent thesis/argument in your introduction and one key example from each text in which you analyze for deeper meaning throughout your body paragraphs (try to find examples from each text that you can place in conversation with each other)
- Do not write broad, observational comments
- Ask yourself: “what is the importance of my observations?” to help you develop vague ideas into concrete arguments
- Consider the implications that your case study and the differences (or similarities) have in how they codify gender/sexuality/other performative roles found in fairy tale conventions
- You must write in complete sentences, edit for proper grammar, have argumentative topic sentences, etc. Try to read your essay aloud as you edit
- Book a writing centre appointment https://www.ocadu.ca/services/writing-and-learning-centre/appointment-bookings-wlc
- You must use MLA https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.htmlLinks to an external site.
- Read your essay aloud and carefully edit for grammar, etc.
Please use this revisionist story Hansel and Gretel Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015.html ) and compare it to the original version of Hansel and Gretel
https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm015a.html