Feminism
Psychoanalysis
Cultural Criticism
Historical/Deconstruction
Reader Response
100
What is Feminism?
The advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men.
100
What does psychoanalysis look for in the story?
What is they look at the author's mind and the characters mind set throughout the story.
100
What is the definition of the lenses cultural criticism?
It combines both Marxist/social criticism and cultural studies perspectives. Situates texts within their surrounding cultural contexts. Pays attention to issues of class (stereotypes that include and exclude, considering which group is better and which is worse, how, and why). Attends to issues of production, consumption, regulation, identity, and representation. Focuses both on the text and the culture producing and reading the text. Particularly interested in power relationships within the text and outside the text.
100
What does a deconstructionist look for in text, poems, stories etc.
What is analyzing words from the text
100
What is the definition of reader-response criticism?
What is it is a literary criticism that focuses primarily on the reader's reaction to a text.
200
Why did the Huntsman not kill Snow White?
What is her beauty
200
Based on the Queen's need to be the most beautiful person in the land, what psychological disorder do you think she has?
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
200
In the story Snow-White, what do you see in many different cultures when it comes to women?
What is in many different cultures you would find women doing any and every thing to be pretty, whether its getting Botox or getting the most expensive clothes.
200
What is the New Historicist look for in texts, poems, stories, etc.
What is the author's biography, background and the ideas from the time period causing him to write this.
200
What are the kinds of critical methods found in reader response?
What is subjective and personal
300
Why was the villain a woman?
It suggests that knowledge and power in the hands of women is not only unacceptable, but dangerous.
300
"The Queen summoned a huntsman and said to him, 'Take Snow-White out into the woods. I never want to see her again, and as proof that she is dead bring her lungs and her liver back to me'." Why does the queen choose to eat the body parts?
What is she thinks this is the way to absorb Snow-White's life force or to absorb Snow-White's fairness and beauty.
300
Based on cultural criticism, what did the mirror symbolize?
What is the mirror symbolizes the evil queen's vanity the queen looks in the mirror and is unhappy that Snow White is more beautiful than she, so she becomes delusional and believes that the mirror is talking.
300
What did the Queen mean when she talked about killing Snow White and stated "If it cost my life"?
She will do anything to kill Snow White, but wouldn't kill herself so she could be the most beautiful woman in the land.
300
According to your reading, what could be one of the main reasons that killed the Queen?
What is Greed. She was greedy to know who was more beautiful than her.
400
Why is there a lack of a "Father Figure" in Snow White's life?
Snow White's step mother is the dominating force in the story. She could be the powerful one in the relationship between the Queen and the King.
400
Snow White takes a corset that prevents her from breathing, a comb that poisons her upon contact, and takes a bite of a poisoned apple. What does this say about Snow-White's mental state throughout the story line while the queen plots her death?
What is That she still has an innocent child-like mental state that prevents her from recognizing the danger that the queen represents.
400
The queen is shown through this text as a power hungry and dangerous woman, why does she not fit into what a stereotypical woman does or is?
What is women are said to be obedient, sweet, domestic and innocent for their own good and safety.
400
Why did they kill the Queen with burning iron shoes?
In that time, they said iron and fire were the two things to kill witches and bad evils. Iron took off the witch's power and the fire killed her.
400
Interpret the situation of Snow-White being at the dwarf's house in return of keeping the house for them. How could this could be interpreted in exchange of favors?
What is the exchange of favors could be interpreted as selfish, because when you need something to be done but you can't do it, you might ask someone to do it for you and you give them something in return.
500
Why did the seven dwarfs ask Snow White to care after the house in order to stay there?
At that time, cleaning and cooking were the only duties women had.
500
Throughout the story, you can see that Little Snow White is the queen's obsession for her beauty and fairness. What does this say about the desire to be beautiful, in the case of the queen?
What is that the force of beauty will inevitably ensnare and kill women who sought to be the most beautiful person in the world.
500
The absent father figure, the king, plays a role as a representation in this story. How could you interpret that through the cultural criticism lens as to why this is important in this story?
What is through the cultural criticism lens, women are shown to compete for the male's attention mostly through their looks.
500
The Fairy Tale was written in Germany in 1886, why did the author choose to use dwarfs who worked in mines in the story?
What is because in Germany at that time, some cities had children working in mines, so he decided to use the term "dwarfs" instead of children to make the comparison of the children without actually using children.
500
What was the mistake made by the snow-white that in real life could lead to consequences like the story?
What is she did not listen to the dwarfs when they told her to not open the door to anyone. She was stubborn and naive.
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