Week 15 Reading Notes A: Lang's European Fairy Tales

For the first story I read it was about a cat and its master. I knew of Puss in Boots in the movie Shrek but never thought that it was an actual character in old stories. I thought that it was made up for the movie but I was wrong. In this story the cat is very loyal to a man that at first wanted to kill it which is strange to me. In the story the cat told the man to let him be free and he will repay his owner in many different ways. He would trap animals and take them to the king over and over again so the king would know who he was and then would tell the king his owner was the one sending him. The owner had no idea that the cat was doing this with the king. When the cat knows that the king is going to coming by he tells his owner to go for a swim and then tells the king that his owner is drowning. He ends up tricking the king to get his owner saved and the owner sees the kings daughter falling in love instantly. The king then goes around the land and tries to find out more about the owner of the cat and the cat knows he was going to do this. He then runs around telling people to lie to the king or he will kill them. In the end of it the king is very impressed by what he thinks the owner has and who he is that he gives his daughter to him. Throughout the story I was confused on why the cat was helping it's owner so much. At the end of it I found out that the reason the cat wanted to help because he knew if his owner benefited then he would benefit as well. The cat now doesn't have to work for anything anymore and has everything handed to him. I found that in these stories most of them have to do with trickery because in a different story a man tricked a dragon into his own coffin. In another a woman tricked everyone into thinking she was a beggar but turned out to be a princess and eventually married a prince.

Lang's European Fairy Tales I

Puss in Boots, Source

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