7/25/2019 RP Into the Woods Questions

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1. Since 1866 the American musical comedy has illustrated the romantic,

normative values of American culture (Green 1980:1)

o! are the "romantic, normative values of American culture# challen$ed

!ithin %nto the &oods' %n ans!erin$ this uestion you should state !hat you

consider to e "normative# and o*er t!o illustrations of this from theAmerican musical comedy canon.

+. Sondheim and a-ine inter!eave four familiar fol tales !hich comine

the uest motif and the marria$e motif to e/-lore the ramications of

a--ily 2ver After3 creatin$ a restyled $enre that o*ers a lierated

romance, elevatin$ the -hiloso-hy of true community over the restricted

artice of fairytale cou-lin$.

o! does %nterte/tuality !ithin %nto the &oods hel- the reader to uestionacce-ted norms re$ardin$ fairytale cou-lin$3'

4. Sondheim and a-ine select three of the most -o-ular tales from the

5rothers Grimm, inderella, ittle 7ed 7idin$ ood, and 7a-unel, as !ell

as the -o-ular 2n$lish fol tale ac and the 5eanstal. And they then

-roceed to undercut the timeless moralities3 of these tales y

constructin$ an ori$inal one of their o!n, he 5aer and his &ife to $ive

thematic unity to the entire narrative construct.

2/amine and discuss the im-ortance of the roles of the 5aer and is &ife

!ithin the narrative of %nto the &oods.

;. %deolo$ically s-eain$, the entire rst act, !hich follo!s the -ursuit of

each character#s $oal, conrms the selsh, yet sim-listic, motives of each

storyoo $ure.

&ith close re$ard to this uotation, in !hat !ay does %nto the &oods attem-t

to critiue contem-orary society and the uest for individual $ain<-ursuit ofha--iness'

=. %nto the &oods deconstructs the traditional notions of musical comedy,

entertainin$ !hile uestionin$ the conventional roles !ithin society.

>econstruct the roles of the &itch, inderella and the ?arrator !ithin %nto the

&oods.