Yet, they don't revenge, they don't resent, they accept their fate. However, the villain dies and the princess ends up with the prince living happily ever after.
Is it what we are supposed to do? Accept our fate without resentment, without hate, without revenge, and any other negative feeling, so that we can receive the reward (the prince) and live happy forever (spiritual life)??
2007-11-28 16:32:18 · 11 answers · asked by Janet Reincarnated 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, Baby, no!
Many times, the message to women is to wait for a man to save her. This is, to any woman who ever tried such a thing, clearly a load of horse $ h i t. You must look for older, deeper myths and be unafraid to create new ones for yourself.
Read older fairy tales. Get the good stuff, Grimm's and Hans Christian Anderson. Forget that Disney fluff!
Read the original Goose Girl, it has a marvelously gory ending!
Read the Rose Elf and the Traveling Companion. Read the book , Women Who Run with the Wolves. Read of Vasilisa the Wise. (The Bible has some nasty bits as well. Very hair raising and full of rebellion, cut throat tactics and sexual innuendo.) Read the myths of many lands and peoples.
I read them to my baby girl all the time. Children are comforted by justice. The kids I read to light up when I get to the "good" parts. They don't want you to dumb the legends down. They are clever and know when the story is meant to be ironic, or a real moral. Go find the old stories and enjoy. My copy of Hans Christian Anderson is long out of print. But if you can find it, it is worth the search. It was translated by Erik Christian Haugaard and published in 1974. Enjoy!
They say the righteous invented justice, so the wicked invented mercy.
2007-11-28 16:58:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not all fairy tales, but a goodly proportion of them. The idea is that the princess is too pure and innocent to hate, or even to understand her fate, and too weak to do other than submit. (There are exceptions, but that's the image generally.) Therefore, she needs a rescuer, and then she rewards the rescuer by falling in love with him. She is the reward, not the prince.
2007-11-29 03:15:34 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are tales to amuse kids as a good past time.Please do not take this fairy tale matter seriously and try hair splitting.The fairy are reported to be living in the mountanineous areas of Centreal Asian Republics.The poor ladies though as beautiful as the fairies are supposed to be are forced to fill the brothels of middle east and Pakistan.If you want to do anything for fairies, please take up this matter on human grounds.
2007-11-29 07:32:09 · answer #3 · answered by shahinsaifullah2006 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Except that the Princesses were helpless though the horrible fate that they suffered. And didn't do one little thing to help themselves. I'm pretty sure this isn't how we're supposed to act.
2007-11-29 00:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since when do you follow your life based off a fairy tale? I prefer the ones where the princess can actually kick some ***.
2007-11-29 00:36:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Read Hansel and Gretel, and explain how this matches your example of Meekly Accepting Your Fate.
2007-11-29 00:36:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Reality is not a fairy tale.
2007-11-29 00:43:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
read the original. They were anything but nice.
2007-11-29 00:40:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are fairy tales, Dear.... Does that tell you something?
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2007-11-29 00:38:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
purty much
2007-11-29 08:15:27 · answer #10 · answered by ChristaAlleen<3 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋