Witches, fools, monsters and villains, it won’t take long to realize that many fairy tale elements and nursery rhymes are heavily entrenched in fables and folklore. Enter the female evil. In Charles Perrault’s article: Fairy Tales Morals and Humans, the role of the weak male character is discussed together with the twisted character of these fairy tales. . This article shows the character of the female stereotype, in contrast, and the character presented by other beloved classics, in addition to the book of Charles Perrault (which includes Cinderella).
Somewhere between culture and folk, women are often represented as a winking Adam, a double half. Thus also his part faithfully always crosses the imagination of children. Wicked witches, wicked stepmothers, wicked beasts, vile stepmothers, every wretched woman is a living testimony to her children. But stepmothers are not always bad. Fatalities are not always bad. It’s not always ugly. But surely women are not always bad. In the same way, princes are not always charming, nor peasants always courageous and heroic. Hence the irony that at an early age, children are brought up with colorful storybooks that teach them to see the world in objective black and white, in a rigid perspective that allows them to label humanity in a restrained way. By stereotyping, this world will never remove the prince of pleasure.
Then, as a matter of fact, there are giants who devour babies and little wives, who feast on beautiful stepchildren. And it is pleasant to know that everywhere, fairyland abounds with bloody cannibals: there is the giant on the top of the bean, who has the English to his fill for lunch, the witch who uses her iron to boil Hansel, the stepmother intent on possessing Snow White’s beauty mysteries devouring liver and lungs, and so on. Frankly, it shouldn’t be disturbing—or surprising—if cannibalistic children end up raving about them. we taught ourselves in the morning.
Cannibalistic acts may represent higher virtues, but cannibalism is exactly what it is – cannibalism. At its heart still lies the graphic image of primitive, raw brutality. Society calls itself humanity!
Yet on closer inspection, fables and stories nursery-rhymes lend themselves well to social taboos. Psychoanalysts, for example, depress the apparently harmless Jack and Jill to arouse sexual implications when Jack “falls down and breaks his crown” (i.e., loses his virginity). Not everyone buys that theory, of course, but taking it on a literal level and Jack “losing the crown” would seem disgusting (and bloody). So also with the three blind mice, whose tails were cut off by the farmer’s wife, the blood did not let go. And how about Rapunzel with golden hair? Do you really believe that nothing untoward happens when the handsome prince and the maiden are left alone in the tower every night? Then we can proceed to the number of murders (attempted and successful alike) and the death of the transmitted texts: one calls the poisoned apple, the other the deadly stone of the wheel, the other the innocent children in the midst of death. forest, others inciting the slaughter of men and pigs by hungry wolves. It just gets blatantly moronic when the evil stepmothers who are in charge of plotting those seamlessly perfect murderous schemes simply fall over the cliffs to their doom, all careless.
One essential element of the fairy tale is, without a doubt, the immediate desire for perfection. You can only watch so many Disney movies without hearing snow white crickets sing to “Sometime My Prince Will Come” or Cinderella in the hundreds. looking forward to the glowing castle in the distance, and sobbing desperately to the group. But now fairs would not be fables, if fortune did not now have a handsome prince and a beautiful wife, would they? These stories teach children almost every life comes with true wishes, I love a lot how the ugly duckling turned into a beautiful swan when he wanted just to be A dangerous perception is absolutely bordering on fantasy.
It’s the same twisted root that allows magical stories to magically justify villains and villains when they’re supposed to be the “good guys.” Did Puss in Boots do the world good when he made his master rich through a string of tricks and treachery? If only we all had a cat! How does Jack, who is wrapped up in greed, steal everything from the orc over the beans, including the orc’s life? Is this justifiable entertainment only because those who destroyed it are the “good guys”? Stealing is good, just not for a good reason—that’s exactly what teaching kids is all about.
Pretty letters, eh?
Ever been curious to know what the real deal was when you grew up loving fairy tales? After the colorful, brilliantly illustrated and sanitized picture Books pulled out by publishers into a new family forever, it is dark; it insists on a hidden story. Let’s shake up a few classics.
Jack and the Beanstalk
The biggest irony in this story: where are all the good guys? The giant on top of the beanstalk finds the English a tasty treat and it’s definitely not good. But what about Jack? An innocent child disobeys his mother at first, exchanges his cow for magic beans, deceives the ogre in his home, the ogre’s wife steals the ogre’s purses as she sees fit, is consumed by greed, and decides to return. in the chicken that lays golden eggs, and rapture with the top of the magic guitar! Of course, there will not be a happy outcome if he does not escape from everything by cutting the beans, as he who alone comes after a thief steals and kills. And Jack was supposed to be a good guy, right?
Little Red Hood
Don’t you find it too suggestive of boredom when the wolf innocently asks the girl what he has there “under his cloak”? In the earliest beloved versions of the story, we find a cross-dressing wolf who asks Red Hood to “undress” and “sit down beside him.” If that’s a little confusing, let’s go back to all the action we missed before Red Hood even arrived: the wolf gets to the cabin first, kills the granny, tears it up, ties the body parts in one barrel and draws the blood into another. before keeping them neatly in the cupboard. Then the old woman dressed as a wolf tells Red Hood to help herself to some “meat” and “wine” in the cupboard, which she obediently does. Solanum is certainly because in this version, our heroes are smart enough to avoid and do not end up in the wolves’ bellies. The rest of the lights from the Grimms are barely there.
