Fairy Tales

Bring the draft of your introduction paragraph and your best analytical paragraph, followed by an outline with textual evidences to your section. Your introduction paragraph should clearly state what works you will be discussing.  Even if the thesis sentence is not fully formed yet, it should indicate the topic you plan to write about and a preliminary argument that is debatable and answers a puzzling question in the text you are analyzing. Your analytical paragraph should have a clear opening thesis statement that develops the preliminary thesis in the introduction paragraph and at least one textual evidence with citations (direct quote, visual analysis if doing film). You should show how closely you are tackling the text. The rest of the draft should include an outline with at least one textual evidence for each paragraph. Choose your evidence and arrange it as what will become the body of your essay. Add sentences analyzing your evidence and what it shows in relation to your chosen topic.
Topic:
Fairy tales often depend for their meanings on specific binary oppositions (e.g., between wild and tame, predators and prey, old and young, male and female, human and animal, etc.). However, fairy tales may also undermine such oppositions to allow for happy endings or other desired outcomes. Choose two (or more) fairy tales and make an argument about how they treat binary oppositions.