1.
What does she look like? Pay particular attention to the question of whether
she is considered beautiful.
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Rapunzel is very beautiful, so beautiful that the enchantress
locks her away in a tower
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She has very long golden hair
2.
How old is she?
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She was taken as a baby
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She was 14 years old when the prince found her in the tower
3.
Is she in a position of power or not?
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She doesn’t have much power over her life as she is locked in
a tower
4.
What does she do?
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She doesn’t do anything about it though
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She doesn’t ask the enchantress to set her free and she just
lets the enchantress exile her to a desert and does nothing to stop her
5.
What are her personal characteristics?
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Her personal characteristics include:
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Amazing singing voice
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No respect for herself
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Pathetic
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Weak
6.
What happens to her?
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Rapunzel is locked away in a tower and a prince finds her one
day
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She plans to escape but in her own stupidity she gives it
away
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The enchantress sends her away to a desert and she is left
there where she has twins
·
She is wandering around hopelessly when she is found by the
prince and she gives him back his sight
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They live happily ever after and she is at the age of 15 or
so
7.
How do males react to her?
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The prince in the story immediately falls in love with her
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Within the first 5 minutes of meeting her he asks for her to
be his wife
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She comes to see her every night yet does not really do much
to save her
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He falls in love with her because of her voice and her beauty
and she is only 14 years old at this stage
8.
How do other females react to her?
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The enchantress is jealous of her beauty
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This then gets Rapunzel locked away in a tower
9.
Is she punished or rewarded by the story? What is she punished or rewarded for?
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She was punished throughout the story but in the end she is
rewarded in a way
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The story does not give her a very good image though
10. How is she punished or rewarded?
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She is punished as she is locked in a tower for most of her
life and then thrown into a desert with nothing
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She is rewarded though as she finds her prince, marries him
and lives happily ever after
11.
What qualities are valued in women in the text?
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There aren’t many qualities valued from this text as Rapunzel
did not stand up for herself
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She also happily accepted to be the prince’s husband even
though she hardly knew him
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She could’ve escaped yet she gave the plan away in her own
stupidity
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There weren’t any good qualities shown apart from the fact
that she stayed alive that long in the desert which shows that she could pull
through rough times
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