Archetypes
What is the archetype did Ashputtle fit?
Damsel in distress
She needs the prince to help her escape the cruel treatment of her step family.
"Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,
And children's faces looking up,
Holding wonder like a cup."
What tone is this?
Nostalgic or grateful
Describes children, and describes nature as beautiful and splendid
What archetype does Ashputtle's sisters fit into?
They are the foil
It repeatedly refers to Ashputtle as "good" in the beginning, while her sisters do everything besides being "good"
The companion
The doves help Ashputtle with picking out the lentils from the ashes, and help her through most of her ordeals
The tyrant
She wants her biological daughters to have a better quality of life than Ashputtle, and actively endorses tormenting her
What archetype is the entire story of Ashputtle?
She starts off being poorly treated by her step family, constantly dirty, to being married to a prince.