You know, I have been
re-reading fairy tales I read during my childhood lately and I find
that my perception of them as changed vastly
Seriously these days I think
fairy tales are actually very twisted.
Eg. Sleeping Beauty…imagine a
bride 100 years older than you
Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves… if you think about it, Ali Baba has to be the biggest
thief of all
Rumpelstizskin (sp?) … Think
about it. The little man did win the child fare and
square.
Many more but my brain is not
really working.
Also, in fairy tales the good
guys are always good looking but the bad are always ugly and weird
looking. How’s that for stereotype…maybe the exception is the evil
stepmother in Snow White.
Heck not a fairy tale but
even in Merchant of Venice, Shylock if you look at it another way,
it is quite pitiful too at how he was denied his payment due to a
technicality and his daughter running off with the
‘enemy’.
Then again, I am babbling so
don’t mind me
when u are called a Sleeping Beauty, it really meant " you lazy
slob, get up and work"
when u are called a Ali Baba, it meant "you are illegal
immigrant hah, stealing hah"
when Snow White is mentioned, we 1st think of the 7 Dwarfs...
"short short ones.."
