I chose the unit Italian Popular Tales and my favorite stories were Zelinda and the Monster and The Fair Angiola.
I really liked the story of Zelinda and the Monster because it reminded me of the story of Beauty and the Beast. The serpent reminded me of the Beast because he had been enchanted by a witch's spell. He looked like a serpent, but once the spell was broken he was actually a young, handsome prince. The story also had an enchanted mirror in it which the serpent used to show the princess her dying father. That is a similar storyline to the movie Beauty and the Beast as well.
Where the stories diverge is that the princess does not love the serpent and tells him every day that she doesn't want to marry him. The serpent uses the knowledge of the princesses father dying to persuade her to marry him. It's when he promises to save her father that she decides to marry him. Beauty doesn't declare her love for the Beast until he dies in her arms.
The movie becomes similar again when both the serpent and Beast turn into handsome, young princes and they marry the women they love. In both stories, they also live happily ever after.
I really liked the story of Zelinda and the Monster because it reminded me of the story of Beauty and the Beast. The serpent reminded me of the Beast because he had been enchanted by a witch's spell. He looked like a serpent, but once the spell was broken he was actually a young, handsome prince. The story also had an enchanted mirror in it which the serpent used to show the princess her dying father. That is a similar storyline to the movie Beauty and the Beast as well.
Where the stories diverge is that the princess does not love the serpent and tells him every day that she doesn't want to marry him. The serpent uses the knowledge of the princesses father dying to persuade her to marry him. It's when he promises to save her father that she decides to marry him. Beauty doesn't declare her love for the Beast until he dies in her arms.
The movie becomes similar again when both the serpent and Beast turn into handsome, young princes and they marry the women they love. In both stories, they also live happily ever after.
My second favorite story in the unit was about The Fair Angiola. This story reminded me a lot of the story Rapunzel. I liked this story a lot. The stories are similar in how the princesses are taken away from their parents and kept hidden away in a tall castle far, far away. Both stories have princesses with extremely long hair and they both let down their hair out of the castle window, so that their captors can come inside the castle.
The stories diverge with how the princesses were taken to the castle to be hidden away. Angiola had met her captor many times on the path into town and had talked to her numerous times. She knew that one day she would be taken away because her mother had told her so. Rapunzel did not know she was kidnapped and raised by an evil woman. She had never met her before being kidnapped and thought she was her mother all along.
The stories again become similar in regards to the princesses meeting the princes in the tall castle and they both ran away with their princes. The princesses were also chased and threatened by the women who had kidnapped them. They also both ended up getting married and living happily ever after.
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