Steampunk is such a fun genre. Thanks for all the great tips on fractured fairy tales. A fractured fairy tale takes the familiar story—and turns it on its ear.
Consider these suggestions: Write an origin story for one of the characters: Why is the stepmother so evil? Where did the witch come from that turned the Prince into the Beast?
What about the woman that locked Rapunzel in the tower? What was her deal? Change the setting: Locked in a tower in a lonely forest? How about the loneliness of living in a bustling city? Fairy tale in the past?
Consider setting your fairy tale in the space? But where exactly that someplace is may undergo a shift. This new setting creates all sorts of opportunities for further fracturing. All of the events that move a story from its beginning conflict to its ending resolution form the heart of the plot. These events also provide loads of opportunities for fracturing! These things sit on a continuum.
Angela Carter often uses a title as clue to her inspiration, but then blows away the plot. This adaptation goes backwards in time through three periods of Japanese history unveiling the story. The drama is inspired by the Bremen tale but does not have much in common with it. I have argued that Animal Kingdom the American TV series and Breaking Bad make heavy use of fairytale symbolism, but other viewers may not see it; meanwhile, other viewers may see fairytale symbolism in shows where I do not.
You can find many examples of scholars who talk about fairytales in terms of symbolism and motif and the importance of fairytale archetypes to human psychology. This work examines the many ways that recent films have employed archetypal images, themes, symbols, and structural elements that originated in the most well-known Grimm fairy tales.
Each of eight chapters reveals a similar pairing, and film stills and illustrations are featured throughout the work. When writers take an old tale and subvert expectations, wonderful things can be done. Worldviews can be modified or even shattered. But because these stories are so powerful, they can also be unhelpful. Rapunzel is having a hard time hearing exactly what Prince Charming is asking her to throw down from her tower and hilarity ensues. Kids will love anticipating what she will throw down next.
Kids familiar with the traditional version will love telling you how this one is different. The illustrations by Lydia Monks add to the humor perfectly! There are so many fun details in this book. The humor is mostly dry but plentiful and the story itself is engaging as all Willems stories are. The Three Pigs by David Wiesner is the most creative of all these fantastic books. In this book, the three little pigs escape the wolf by escaping the story itself. They test out other pages and pick up a dragon and cat complete with fiddle but ultimately want to return home.
Together, they face and beat the wolf and settle into the brick home of the third pig. Of course, bringing the dragon and cat. The illustrations will delight you. The perspective and imagination in this book are stunning and well worth many many readings. I love to read fractured fairy tales with kids.
This is a great list. The Three Little Tamales is new to me. When I taught fourth grade, towards the end of the year, we did a fractured fairytale study, comparing the original version to different fractured fairy tales. Our nursery curriculum is based on traditional tales and we use the different versions to encourage higher order thinking skills in our children.
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