Applying Archetypes: Part 1
I posted a couple of weeks ago with a list of my books correlated to Disney Princess movies. What I wanted to do was use these princess motifs to move past a general “idea” about the book's identities to examine specific themes in each story. Comparison to these movies is not a final definition for my books. Rather it is a start towards eliminating vagueness about each book's personality. Since these are children's movies, and childhood comes first in life, perhaps it makes sense to begin by examining the simple concepts in them.
So this is a follow-up post where I’ll give a bit more detail what I’m talking about here and why I chose each movie for each book. To keep the post from getting too long since there are 10 little summaries, I've broken it into two posts with five books for each post. (The Palladia Series has 2 books in it, so that is five in this post. It just looks like 4.)
The Birthday Present is a set of two stories that are essential complements to each other. Since "Millhaven Castle" had more audience exposure than "Birthday Present" in the past, they appear significantly different. In Beauty and the Beast, Belle and the Beast are equally compelling within the story and their surface dissimilarities at first hide a really true connection.Facets of Fantasy is a book of episodic novellas that seem unconnected. Because they are disjointed, they consist of situations that vary a lot from wistful and pristine to comedy to slightly saddening scenes of confrontation or betrayal. All of these remind me very much of the wide diversity of storytelling elements in Tangled.The Palladia Series has gradually evolved from the way it originally appeared and is in continual development as it seems there’s more to discover in it. As one of the most popular and most frequently retold fairy tales of all time, Cinderella always has some new spinoff going on, beyond Disney animated sequels and a live-action update to numerous independent movies and books over the decades. That glass shoe in blue light is a pretty compelling image. Victoria: A Tale of Spain has a smart female protagonist in an unusual plot, and it combines creepy drama and wild comedy pretty equally. The Princess and the Frog has similar components in terms of hopping (pun intended) around a variety of scenes from swanky to frumpy and like Victoria it's a "smaller" story you might not look at first. But if you do get around to it, you could be surprised what's in it.
I'll do a similar summary for the remaining 5 books in a later post.
And there will be more updates
So this is a follow-up post where I’ll give a bit more detail what I’m talking about here and why I chose each movie for each book. To keep the post from getting too long since there are 10 little summaries, I've broken it into two posts with five books for each post. (The Palladia Series has 2 books in it, so that is five in this post. It just looks like 4.)
The Birthday Present is a set of two stories that are essential complements to each other. Since "Millhaven Castle" had more audience exposure than "Birthday Present" in the past, they appear significantly different. In Beauty and the Beast, Belle and the Beast are equally compelling within the story and their surface dissimilarities at first hide a really true connection.Facets of Fantasy is a book of episodic novellas that seem unconnected. Because they are disjointed, they consist of situations that vary a lot from wistful and pristine to comedy to slightly saddening scenes of confrontation or betrayal. All of these remind me very much of the wide diversity of storytelling elements in Tangled.The Palladia Series has gradually evolved from the way it originally appeared and is in continual development as it seems there’s more to discover in it. As one of the most popular and most frequently retold fairy tales of all time, Cinderella always has some new spinoff going on, beyond Disney animated sequels and a live-action update to numerous independent movies and books over the decades. That glass shoe in blue light is a pretty compelling image. Victoria: A Tale of Spain has a smart female protagonist in an unusual plot, and it combines creepy drama and wild comedy pretty equally. The Princess and the Frog has similar components in terms of hopping (pun intended) around a variety of scenes from swanky to frumpy and like Victoria it's a "smaller" story you might not look at first. But if you do get around to it, you could be surprised what's in it.
I'll do a similar summary for the remaining 5 books in a later post.
And there will be more updates
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