This page contain links to essays from
the 2001 class members
who wished to add them here
essays on:
The Princess and the Goblin -
Puss-in-Boots - Rapunzel
Jing Deng
The Germanic and Celtic traditions in the goblins of George MacDonald's The
Princess and the Goblin.
Amy Dyrbye
The figure of the 'grandmother' in George MacDonald's The
Princess and the Goblin.
Gillian Kelland
On the nature of the 'goblins' in George MacDonald's The Princess and the
Goblin.
Sheena MacDonald
"The Princess and the Goblin is a story about self-realisation and the expansion of
limits."
Allan Whincup
An examination of the folk-lore goblins,
dwarfs, and other 'little people' that may have inspired the Goblins in George
MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin
Victoria Varga
The Tripartite Nature of the Moon Goddess in The
Princess and the Goblin
Allan Whincup
Puss-in-Boots as an underdog yarn, as well as a rite-of-passage tale
Peggy King
Puss-in-Boots compared in two versions: the classic Perrault, and a version
by Harry Robinson, an Okanagan Native Storyteller.
Amy Dyrbye
"Puss embodies what the miller's son needs most
following his loss of adult shelter to push into the adult world himself,
becoming the principal archetype of all used within the tale."
Laurie
McKenzie
An analysis of the structure of the plot of Puss-in-Boots, with a chart
Scheherazade
Showleh
Grimms' Rapunzel
compared to Giambattista Basile's Petrosinella
Andrea
Szilagyi
Significant Images in the Grimms’ Version of “Rapunzel”
Tonya Demkiw
An anlysis of the archetypes in Rapunzel
