Okay, I hate naming names so I'm just going start off by simply saying
that I read a number of different blogs from this class and enjoyed seeing what
different people had to say. I found myself both agreeing and disagreeing
with people about certain things. I thought it was especially interesting to
see what everyone considered to be the definition of a fairytale. I really
enjoyed reading a particular blog where the writer related her definition to a
cooking recipe. I thought it was a very creative way to get her point across
and certainly got my attention as it was so unlike any of the other posts.
There was another person in the class who's entries were short but
concise. Though I would have loved to hear more from him, I thought he made
clear what his point was. There was another writer whose blogs I found to be
extremely entertaining to read. Not only were they playful and conversational,
but also very incisive. Of all of her posts, I most enjoyed her first where she
expressed her interest in the class in a narrative similar to that of an actual
fairytale.
Picking a favorite of all the blogs in the class isn't necessarily
something I can do as I really liked them all. I thought each was different and
everyone brought their own styles to their entries. I'll even admit that I
enjoyed the pictures as well even though I didn't include any myself.
Overall, I think that everyone has done a really good job writing up
these entries. There are a few people who, it seemed, are missing some and one
person who I didn't find at all, but for everything that I could read, I
thought was really good. And I'm not "just saying that…"
Let me just
start out by saying that if I were forced by my father to share my meal and bed
with a talking frog, I wouldn’t be too happy. As we could see, when reading the
Grimm’s tale, “The Frog King,” I’m not the only one who feels this way. “The
Frog King” and the classic Greek story, “Cupid and Psyche” are two tales that
easy to compare as they share a similar plot; pretty girls are forced into
spending their precious time with ugly monsters. 
Both stories can
be easily compared to the classic story of “Beauty and the Beast,” simply
because the “beasts” happen to be, unknown by their princesses, strapping young
men. Not only this, but what both stories also have in common is that the
protagonists are extremely beautiful princesses; however, one seems to be
slightly less spoiled than the other. The nameless princess in “The Frog King”
refuses to treat the frog with the slightest bit of respect merely because of
what he is, while Psyche in “Cupid and Psyche” found herself accepting the situation
she was thrown into and did all she could to make matters better for herself in
a more mature manner. Both are rewarded with surprisingly handsome men, but to
me Psyche is rewarded for a much better reason. She had no way of judging her
husband because she literally couldn’t see him. This made her a much less
shallow character; therefore probably resulting in her being respected by
readers a great deal more than the princess in “The Frog King.”