Before this week my attitude towards fairy tales was pretty simple. I used to think about fairytales as stories for children. However, after we read “Snow White” which is a very famous fairy tale, my mind changed. I noticed that inside of what seems to be an innocent story for children, there are a lot of details that have a deeper meaning inside of them. For example, I realized that behind the stepmother’s behavior there are a lot of psychological details that I didn’t pay attention to in the past when I read this story for the first time. Another detail that I noticed from the Snow White story is the fact that the story itself is very focused on beauty, which to me, is not what we should teach to little girls. I would say that this has also religious reference inside with the “poison apple” that Snow White ate. To me, that is a direct reference to Eve from the Bible. I don’t know, maybe not but that’s what I thought about the apple.
Daily Archives: April 2, 2024
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My attitude towards fairytales has change drastically due to this weeks readings. In the way that when you are a child you see the fantasy in the story and it gets your imagination going. As children we tend to be very naive so that also plays a part in not noticing the ideas that are presented But now as an adult and reading “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” it opened my eyes to the ideas that it expresses such as waiting for a prince to save a woman from any danger, also the idea of beauty and how that is the only thing that matters. This story shows how people back then used to operate and I find it a terrible way to judge people.
