Some thoughts on choosing a topic:
Narrow down your topic to an arguable thesis. Your thesis should be the last sentence of your introduction and should indicate your one main idea, interpretation, analysis or thinking about the myth or fairy tale.
You might choose from one of the following approaches to writing this essay:
1) Apply a theory or approach to myth that we’ve studied in class to your myth or fairy tale (Jung, Campbell, Lévi-Strauss, Bettelheim, Bernheimer).
2) Show the influence of your myth on a film, TV show, art work, play, songs, short story, novel or other piece of contemporary art.
3) Show how your myth is different/similar to another myth from another culture or place.