When I used to read fairy tales when I was younger, I thought it was stories about fantasy, magic, happiness, etc., after reading this weeks story’s gave me a different outlook of what fairy tales can be about. I learned that fairy tales can teach lessons to it readers. After reading “The Little Snow White,” I want to go reread all of my childhood favorite fairy tales to get a new perspective of them as an adult. I thought the fairy tale story of “Snow White” was basically about a princess with a evil step mother and sisters and navigating life through that, but in this week reading “The Little Snow White,” The fairy tale is actually about toxicity, coming of age, and jealousy. In the story the queen was becoming older and her beauty was not enhancing with age so she became jealous of Snow White who was young and her beauty was growing more and more everyday. Snow White ran away after the abuse from her evil stepmother and had to essential grow up due to being saved by the price. To me this can also be reality for some women due to Snow White having issues with her step mother that girls/young women face today with their mother/ step mothers.
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I also want to reread the fairytales I used to read as a kid. Things change and when you are a kid a lot goes over your head like when you used to watch certain tv shows and not understand certain jokes. Snow white is still a story I dont think I would read to a child just because of the messages it portrays. You can say its a coming of age story but if you try explaining that to a child they wouldn’t understand.
Hello , Mathew I agree I would love to go reread my favorite fairytales to understand it in a different perspective now that I am older . The story you’re referring to also sounds like what happened in Cinderella .
I completely agree with you when you said you wanted to go back and re-read all your old fairy tale books that you once read as a child. This also was my first thought. However, I then began to think to myself, do I really want to put myself through any more mental warfare that I am already going through. I was laughing at first but then I started noticing things pop up on my feed about childhoods being lies and the whole thing with nickelodeon blowing up again. It really made me think about what this world actually is trying to display behind a curtain. Now I believe that there are hidden messages in everything I have been reading.