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.
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Gabriela, thanks for getting the discussion going. Yes, I think reading the Bettleheim article adds new dimension to an appreciation of the “Snpw White” story. Also, we have to remember that these stories were written centuries ago when expectations for women were much about marriage. As we read in “The Necklace,” there were times in history when many women felt that their power lay in their beauty and what it could give them. You are insightful in your comments about religion. Often the Grimm brothers inserted remarks and hints about religion and morality into their written versions of the stories—what some literary critiques have called editorial intrusions.