a little bit violent....i mean i never really thought about it before until i was reading to mycousin yesterday....in little red riding hood....the wolf ate the grandma and got chopped in half....in the three little pigs..the wolf fell into boiling water and was boiled....in the three blind mice..the mice got their tails chopped of....
funny when you think about it eh...i mean i know i grew up listening to nursery rhymes
2006-07-14 17:36:45 · 9 answers · asked by pr89 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
of course they are. and just look at the older cartoons too, coyote getting squished by a huge boulder while the roadrunner just "beepbeep"s! Look for a book called Grimm's Grimmest, it has nursery ryhmes the way they originally were told.
2006-07-14 17:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by Zahra 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When the nursery rhymes were `made up` the lives and times of the people were very depressing. The stories were set in rhyme so that the people, most of whom were unable to read, could more easily learn them. It was a way of teaching history to children, The posies in their pockets were bunches of herbs and plants they believed would protect them from the great plague that infested London. London Bridge did burn in the 1666 fire that burned most of London to the ground. I think that even the other nursery characters must have had some basis in truth, and were added to the repertoire if only for some light relief.!
2016-03-27 05:58:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell's yeah. Who puts their baby in the tree top and waits for the wind to come, knocks the baby out the tree and watch it fall to its death.
Poor little Red Ridin Hood got molested by a wolf who ate her grandma.
All horrible, but yet we sing them to kids still. People should use nursery rhymes a defense in court. Because as a child they were taught to be violent from hearing such nursery rhymes as they went to bed.
2006-07-14 17:43:19 · answer #3 · answered by Tarabeara 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, they were violent, but the purpose was to scare children into being good moral citizens. Taking time to build your house of bricks is better than settling for straw. There are dangerous things in the world if you aren't careful.
2006-07-14 17:46:53 · answer #4 · answered by sparkletina 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
back in the day stories scared kids, these days, don't scare the tykes so they can play with real guns without regard to any outcome of their actions. there is a lot to be said for the kids who felt sorry for little red riding hood cause grandma got eat.
2006-07-14 17:40:52 · answer #5 · answered by Razzle Dazzle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No not at all. I think they give children the sense that life is hard in the big world and not everything is roses and sunshine
2006-07-14 17:43:08 · answer #6 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hehehe good point, but I don't think kids understand voilence fully to actually care about it; and they don't really pay attention to the words, but the melody.
2006-07-14 17:46:00 · answer #7 · answered by The truth is all around you... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should read the original Grimm's, that **** is worse than the watery ones today.
2006-07-14 17:40:50 · answer #8 · answered by ringshank1980 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
when you think about it, yes they are.
2006-07-14 17:40:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋