Where did Cinderella's father go after he married the step-mother?
Why did he let his new wife treat his daughter that way?
Why did the godmother show up so late? What was she doing the whole time? Couldn't she adopt Cinderella (if her father died)?
Why did the Red Hood's mother send her to the grandma through a dark forest when she *knew* it was dangerous? Did she want to get rid of the kid?
Why did grandma have such a simple lock system in her house if she knew it was dangerous?
Was the Red Hood blind since she took the grey wolf after the grandma? or hadn't the grandma ever shaved or had the increased level of testosterone?
and why do parents treat their kids that awful in many fairy-tales?
2007-12-17 04:52:17 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it was Yahoo's suggested category, don't shoot me
2007-12-17 04:52:40 · update #1
lol, breig
2007-12-17 04:55:30 · update #2
Endora: the wolf didn't speak English, he spoke... um... German? yeah, that must be it... :P
2007-12-17 05:08:11 · update #3
Where did Cinderella's father go after he married the step-mother? *He died. They don't tell it in the Disney version becuae they thought it was too much for kids to understand. Read Grimm's version. Much scarier.
Why did he let his new wife treat his daughter that way? *obvioulsly, he wasn't there since he died. ;)
Why did the godmother show up so late? What was she doing the whole time? Couldn't she adopt Cinderella (if her father died)? *Fairy god mother... not Godmother. she was a fairy... Cinderella called for her by crying and having dispare in her heart.
Why did the Red Hood's mother send her to the grandma through a dark forest when she *knew* it was dangerous? Did she want to get rid of the kid? * hehe i like this one. you make a good point. I suppose it's becuase she knew there was going to be a lumberjack there watching over her?
Why did grandma have such a simple lock system in her house if she knew it was dangerous? *it was midevil times? idk...
Was the Red Hood blind since she took the grey wolf after the grandma? or hadn't the grandma ever shaved or had the increased level of testosterone? *I go for the latter.
and why do parents treat their kids that awful in many fairy-tales? *they were meant to make the kids thankful for having the live they had. ;)
2007-12-17 05:00:30 · answer #1 · answered by Silver Thunderbird 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cinderella's father dies, usually not long after gettign remarried. In the original tales, I think the stepmother kills him. Which also answers #2.
The Godmother isn't a human, she's a fairy (sometimes a witch, but the same thing applies). We are supposed to assume that she can't be a mom for either some metaphysical or possibly legal reason.
"Dangerous" is a relative term. Compared to the risks of day-to-day life at that time, a single wolf, who is generally pretty polite, is no danger at all.
Again, you have to think of the time the story comes from. If you somehow gathered all the houses people have lived in throughout history and threw a rock, you'd probably hit one without a proper door, much less a lock.
There was probably no light at all in the hut. Or, at best, a single dim and smokey candle. Still, I agree, Hood must have been pretty ditzy. Maybe she needed glasses.
The original stories were meant to keep kids under control. So the parents could say "Behave! Or the big bad wolf will eat you!"
2007-12-17 05:02:40 · answer #2 · answered by juicy_wishun 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some versions of Cinderella say the father died, so he had no say in how Cinderella's step-mother treated her.
There isn't really a fairy godmother in the original story. That is the Disney version. In the original Cinderella, it's the spirit of her mother that gives her all the things she needs to go to the ball. Cinderella has wept at the grave of her mother since she died, and as a result, a huge tree has grown on the grave. The night of the ball, after Cinderella's dress is ruined, she goes to her mother's grave and weeps again, and her mother's spirit has birds bring her the dress and the shoes. So forget about the fairy godmother.
Little Red Cap's mother sent her through the dark forest even though she knew it was dangerous because Little Red Cap is a story that illustrates what happens to children who don't listen to their parents. After all, if Little Red Cap had listened to her mother and stayed to the path (as her mother instructed her to), she would have gotten to the grandmother's house before the wolf, and the rest of the story never would have happened.
Grandma is old and lives in the middle of a forest, and obviously doesn't see her family that often if her granddaughter can so easily get lost while walking through the forest to visit her. Since grandpa is obviously dead, who the heck do you expect is going to install a stronger lock system in grandma's house? She's old and feeble, remember? She certainly can't install a better lock system herself.
Little Red Cap was not blind, the whole point of that was how children can be so easily deceived and blind to the dangers of the world, and that's why they should listen to their parents.
The point of most fairy tales is that children should listen to their parents, and/or that women are evil (remember, it was the mother in Hansel & Gretel that didn't want to pay for the children and sent them off into the forest). Classic fairy tales actually teach very good moral lessons and have been recognized by psychologists as important to early childhood development in learning right from wrong.
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2007-12-17 05:18:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original versions of fairy tales were worse. The Prince raped sleeping beauty. As originally told, fairy tales were cautionary tales with morals. "don't play alone in the woods", and such, are the morals. If Red Riding Hood had gone straight to grandmas, rather than dawdling by playing in the woods on her way there, she would have gotten to grannys before the wolf, and been able to lock the door, and keep all safe. Cinderellas' father was not important to the story, so he exited stage right. Perhaps he was sent to Zambia as Ambassador. Fairy tales are short, so tellers have to cut to the chase, by elliminating the non-essentials. Details about dad would have turned the brief tale into a long novel. Parents in fairy tales help set the stage to give the kids a chance to have the experience, to learn the lesson/moral.
2007-12-17 05:18:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Cindy's dad died...
The godmother was a FAIRY godmother, so no, she couldn't adopt... beauty and humility come from hardship, which is the moral of the cindy story-- that's why the godmother didn't come earlier.
How do you know they knew it was dangerous?
Yeah, the part about the wolf dressed up as grandma has me baffled too.
Some kids are treated that way in real life! Be thankful you weren't!
2007-12-17 05:01:57 · answer #5 · answered by Makarena 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cinderella's father died shortly after he married.
Therefore, he wasn't around to stop his wife from treating his daughter that way.
She was a fairy, she couldn't adopt a real human child. And she showed up late because she was waiting for the right time. So, that she could get Cinderella to the ball so she could be with the Prince. All the time that Cinderella spent doing manual labor built character and made her a better person and that's why the Prince loved her.
Red Riding Hood's Mother didn't know the woods were dangerous. This was many many years ago, people were ignorant.
Again, she had a simple lock system because it was many many years ago before they had better lock systems. Plus, she was ignorant and didn't know that it was dangerous.
Red Riding Hood was just a little girl. That's why she wasn't positive that that wasn't her Grandmother. But, she was smart enough to question it.
Parents didn't treat their kids awful. Again, they were just ignorant. They didn't have books written by doctors telling them how to raise their kids properly. They did their best.
2007-12-17 05:03:55 · answer #6 · answered by Deedee 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He went away on business.
He didn't know, because he worked a lot and didn't like spending time with Cinderella because she reminded him of his late wife.
It was her fairy godmother, not a regular godmother. She showed up early enough, and she couldn't adopt Cinderella because her father was still around and it would have been very difficult to get the paperwork through.
It didn't turn out to be too dangerous. She lived and all, right?
Well typically wolves aren't very good with locks.
Not completely blind, as she was able to identify the wolf's features and comment on them. Perhaps she had hyperopia.
By telling children stories about extreme cases of abuse, their own minor experiences of neglect will seem less significant.
2007-12-17 05:06:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cinderella's father died, and the godmother, being a fey, was quite fickle, but still an altruist compared to Malefocent, the black fairy in sleeping beauty
Red Hood's mother may very well have been trying to get rid of Red, like Hansel and Gretel's parents--it happened a lot back then
Simple locks? they didn't even have glass windows back then!
Perhaps Red had a bad stigmatism--you aren't questioning why the wolf spoke english, so now I must assume you're a fundamentalist christian..........
2007-12-17 05:02:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Cinderella took place in France 1636
Her father was sent to war, she had 6 sister but killed 4 of them while she was cleaning the house and doing the chores, poisoned them and lured them into a room and having a heavy lid from an old chest fall and crack their neck
She didn't leave behind a slipper :)
Red Riding hood..
Took place in France 1697
It was packed with sexual tension
All of these were based on actual stories... You should check out this book
"Underground Education" by Richard Zacks
You will find, Cinderella, Goldi Locks and Sleeping Beauty that had the real fairy tale ending
I strongly recommend this book
2007-12-17 05:03:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) in the real story, he dies
2) he was dead, he didnt know any different. when he was alive, she didnt do it when he was around. cinderella didnt tell because she knew how much her father loved this woman and didnt want to break his heart.
3) she wasnt late, she was right on time. u wouldnt have believed in her unless ur were doen at ur worst too.
4) it was daytime, she didnt think anything would happen. how do u know if she "knew" it was dangerous. apparently, the hood had been through there many of times because she knew the path already.
5) this wasnt nowadays where anybody will come into ur house. besides, she was a lonely old lady in the middle of the woods with no neighbors except her relatives. and she obviously didnt think a wolf could oopen the door.
6) if ur sicka nd old, u might look like a wolf too. how do u know she wasnt facing the child
7) to prove to real children that others have worse lives than they do and they come out on top
2007-12-17 05:01:50 · answer #10 · answered by texas_tec_chick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋