Are there any fairy tales with hidden violence in it.EG.Jack and the beanstalk has things like jack killing the giant.
2007-05-09 13:37:13 · 15 answers · asked by dx 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Just name like 3 and whats violent in it
2007-05-09 13:49:21 · update #1
If you get ORIGINAL fairy tales.
CInderella's sisters hack off toes to fit into the glass slipper
Sleeping Beauty is raped and gives birth to twins
Snow White forces the evil queen to wear steel boots, fills them with molten lead and makes her dance until she dies.
Sleep tight.
2007-05-09 13:53:50 · answer #1 · answered by Experto Credo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Sleeping Beauty--the wicked fairy originally wanted her to die, but one of the good fairies converted it to sleeping for 1,000 years (and in the original, she wasn't kissed, she was raped).
2. In Hansel and Gretel, the stepmother tries to get them lost in the woods so they can be eaten by wolves. They escape from the witch by throwing her into the oven and burning her alive, after she's tried to eat Hansel.
3. In Sleeping Beauty, she is poisoned by her stepmother.
4. In Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf eats the grandmother, and is in turn chopped up by the woodsman.
5. In The Red Shoes (Hans Christian Anderson), a little girl is forced to wear a pair of shoes that make her dance forever.
Many of the fairy tales, especially those by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Anderson, are extremely violent--they've been toned down a lot for today's audiences. Originally, they weren't written for children--they were written for adults.
2007-05-10 02:12:30 · answer #2 · answered by cross-stitch kelly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are so many, it would be hard to name them all. So many cultures and groups have their own fairy tales, or folk stories, and most of them have violence. Snow Whites step mom whats her dead and her heart as proof, Hansel and Gretel push the witch that wants to cook them in the oven. The list goes on and on. Google fairy tales and see what you find.
2007-05-09 13:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by anyatavlasa 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Hansel and Gretel: Gretel pushed the Witch into the Oven.
2) Red Riding Hood: The Woodcutter killed the wolf and cut it open to save the Grandmother and Red Riding Hood.
3) Sleeping Beauty: The Prince fighting the witch and winning.
War and murder would be pretty violent, don't you think?
2007-05-10 13:20:17 · answer #4 · answered by Ma'iingan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original Grimm fairy tales were extremely violent. People died in almost every one.
2007-05-09 13:43:31 · answer #5 · answered by Systematics 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-26 22:59:48 · answer #6 · answered by faye 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My Eglish teacher just told me yesterday that one of the elements of a fairy tale is violence!
2007-05-09 13:42:54 · answer #7 · answered by M M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What about Snow White? At the end, after Snow White was liberated from the glass coffin by the Prince, they made the wicked queen dance in red hot slippers at Snow White's wedding untill she fell down dead.
2007-05-09 13:50:35 · answer #8 · answered by Boo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't they all? Witches poisoning princesses all over the place...sleeping potions to make people think the young girl is dead...locking girls in towers their entire lives...I think ALL faery tales have not so hidden violence.
2007-05-09 13:42:57 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa E 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really should do your own home work!!
Hansel and Gretel..kids being left alone in the woods...the old hag wanting to eat the kids and hansel pushing her into the oven..
Snow White...poisioned apples revenge...and desertion
Little red riding hood..the woodsman killing the wolf and removing granny from his stomach
2007-05-09 14:11:18 · answer #10 · answered by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋