Proposal

As my final project, I intended to write and illustrate my own fairytale. Throughout the course of the semester, however, I will chose five stories to analyze and study for their implied morals. I will conduct a survey which will ask the participant to identify the different morals within specified fairytales. This is to simply see if the participant has identified the correct morals that I found during my research. If the majority of participants’ have guessed correctly on the certain morals within stories then it is concluded that as adults we can recognize the morals subconsciously implanted in our brains as children. I intend to work with Dr. Valenza as a guide for my project. I will use this fairytale to demonstrate all the research I’ve learned by implying my own morals onto others and then asking the viewer whether or not they can identify the moral within my own story. I will use MixBook to digitally craft a fairytale story of my own and then purchase the book so that I can have a physical copy to share with others in a childlike setting. I will need a lot of research in order to state that the morals within children stories do have an affect on the morals later in life, otherwise my project’s purpose falls apart. Throughout the course of the semester I will gather a myriad of research regarding the morals implied within children’s fairytales. This subject interests me because it combines two fields of study that I wish to pursue, while also incorporating my love of children. I have always been interested in psychology and more importantly the development of the mind, understanding how our brains form and mold and the influences on them. Another true passion of mine is Literature and reading. I have always loved to read and in high school I have also even more so loved to understand the purposes of each pattern and movement within a story. By combining the two in this project I am able to take all the knowledge I have gained in high school and project that through the two fields of study I wish to pursue in the future.My essential question asks: As adults can we recognize the morals implanted in our brains through the fairytales we read as children? I have had no prior experience with this topic and it is for that reason that I am most eager to learn. My research is what ties this project together. With my survey, my analyses, and the numerous findings of other psychologists I can learn about the morals implied in specific stories and use that information to create my own. I will also benefit from conducting my own survey by gaining experience in that area. I will use Bruno Bettelheim’s analyses on specific fairytales as my basis for each analysis I will conduct. Because he was a child psychologist and basis his analyses off the findings of Freud his work is valid and reliable. The anthology titled “Fairy Tales” gives a myraid of insight from different psychologits and literary critics so its information collectively is valid. Lastly, the literary criticism provided by Christine Goldberg is a reliable source because it taps into the overall importance and effect of fairytales. After all this research I shall apply my findings and create my own children’s fairytale, which will incorporate the morals I wish to imply to my readers.