F2F Class Notes 6th May (Celeste)

Next class: discuss protagonist/antagonist, “into thin air”, then continue telling the story about Snow White

Original

I want to talk about a passage about discussing 2 fairytales. One is about the little mermaid written by anderson, the other one is the story of snow white came from folklores but reorganized by who grim bros. In the opinions of the passage the author thinks there are no bad guys in the story of lm. Take the witch, for example. the witch who should be the most evil one in the story didn’t take any initiative to do bad things.TLM asked for the ability of walking so, she wanted her to give her beautiful voice as a paid. This is totally fair deal. So, we cannot say the witch was the evil person in the story. And about her sisters, they gave her a knife to kill her beloved prince. We also cannot say that they were evil ones because they wanted to save their little sister’s life. Even about the prince, we cannot condemn him as an asshole bc he was always out of situation and even after the lm became foam and disappeared in the air, he didn’t realize that there was a girl who had loved him so much. So if we have to set an evil role in this story, it might be the reality itself. So, we can admire this story as an artistic tragedy.

Edited

I want to talk about an opinion piece that/which discusses 2 fairytales. One is about the Little Mermaid written by Anderson, the other one is the story of Snow White which came from folklore and was retold by the Grimm Bros. In this piece, the author thinks there are no bad guys in the story of LM. Take the witch, for example. The witch, who should be the villian in the story, didn’t seek to destroy anyone or anything/look to cause trouble. TLM asked for the ability to walk so, the witch wanted her to give her beautiful voice as payment. This is totally a fair deal. So, we cannot say the witch was the evil person in the story. And about her sisters, they gave her a knife to kill her beloved prince. We also cannot say that they were the evil ones because they wanted to save their little sister’s life. Even about the prince, we cannot condemn him as an asshole because he didn’t even know she existed and even after the LM turned into foam and disappeared into thin air, he didn’t realize that there was a girl who had loved him so much. So if we have to set an evil role in this story, it might be the reality itself. So, we can regard/admire this story as an artistic tragedy.

protagonist – main/lead character, usually a hero/heroin

antagonist – villain, character who opposes the protagonist

into thin air > next class!

how to spell ?

how do you spell it/that/this?

oblivious – clueless > don’t have a clue

She is oblivious that he likes her.

He is clueless when he tries to talk to girls.

I haven’t got a clue about who sent me the flowers. > I am clueless. I don’t know who sent me the flowers.

I have no idea!

curse/cuss/swear/bad/dirty words

express our angry – express our anger

When we are angry, we have anger.