Fairy Tales

I’m not sure what a formal proposal should be like. Is it simply my current developing thesis for the essay? Despite the fact that I am sure that things will change? And is there a length or any sort of requirement?

I chose to analyze “A Tale about the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was” and I plan to show that the tale promotes rigid gender roles. For example the younger son follows his duty as the male to go learn to”earn a living,” displaying very masculine qualities as he does [...]

I thought their theories on nationalism was very interesting. The way Anderson explained the progression of history that led to the formation of the idea of a nation seemed more convincing. He seemed to focus more on the transformation stages rather than making the three distinct preagrarian, agrarian, and industrial stages Gellner divided all of [...]

I think I will choose the Chinese version because I thought it was the version that retained most of the elements I think of when I think of “Cinderella”, although altered quite a bit. Such as the wicked stepmother and ugly sister that make her do chores. I chose it also, because of the differences [...]