Blog Entry 10: November 24

Find a cartoon on-line with a Rapunzel motif and discuss the cartoon and compare it with either the Original tale or the Disney film. Add a copy of the cartoon, name of the cartoonist and the source (URL).

• This cartoon was a social-political commenting on the use of tower in modern literature. This cartoon has two people on opposite side of the tower; the women on the ledge of the tower calling romeo is from the Shakespearean play "Romeo and Juliet." The man on the bottom of the tower is suppose to be an allusion from the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rapunzel. Juliet is in the balcony scene where she finds out that Romeo 's last name: Montague. In desperation she looks out of her balcony and gives a dramatic monologue on why Romeo's last name is Montague and not any other name so, she can marry her beloved. The man on the other hand is in the part of the fairy tale where Rapunzel and the prince first meet. The prince first overheard Rapunzel singing which touched his heart deeply. He vowed from that moment on he will find out to find a ladder and climb up the ladder. He then, hid behind a bush and found out that the ladder was Rapunzel's hair. They met and vowed to run away together. The tower in both of these work of literature represent a turning point for the worst for each couple. In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Juliet creates a plan to poison herself to avoid marrying Peter and Romeo finds her "dead". He thinks she is really dead and poison himself because he can't live a life without her. Juliet wakes up from her poisoning and promptly stabs herself because she too can't live a life without him. In Rapunzel, the prince is tricked by the witch and gets his eyes blinded by the rose bush guarding the tower. He wandered about the woods for years in grief until one day he found Rapunzel again. She healed his eyes with her magical tears and they lived happily ever after.