Omar Al-ekakili
Teacher’s name
English 102
9/15/15
How much can You Really Trust the Author While many people think of fairy tales as a way of teaching kids different life lessons, and those people are not wrong, but fairy tales hold much deeper meaning and scripts that kids might not understand. This leaves the job to the adults to decipher and learn the story and see what the author had intentionally put there and in many cases unintentionally leave clues and behaviors that can be used to analyze the culture and people of that time era of the author. And of course, behind every great story there is an equally great teller/author; still no matter how great the author might be, there still is a singular point of view in which the reader …show more content…
One point that was a big change from the older story, is the fact that the third sister was the one who saves the day with rescuing everyone, unlike the other stories where it was a man that saved the women. Not only is this a win for all feminist, but the story was also authorized by a female author. In the first story of “Bluebeard” the sister calls out “Brothers, my dear brothers! Come help me!”(Grimms) before the king tries to kill her; while in the much later story “A Tuscan Bluebeard” the sister is the person that saves her other sisters from doom and demise. From a purely feminist point of view, the differences indicate an uprising for women in political status. But with all that in mind, it is weird that it seems to be a much different interpretations of the room that is forbidden. In “Bluebeard” the forbidden room is filled with “blood […] and dead women hanging along all the walls, some only skeletons.” (Grimms) compared to “A Tuscan Bluebeard” forbidden room which was described as “a marble courtyard opening on to a beautiful garden.” (Anderton). This is important because the female author chose not to demonize the man but to take away his power—he was also described as a poor man—and by doing that the female author both gave more relatable character to the man, and also gave the men in the story less power and the women more power, unlike the first story told by the
Teacher’s name
English 102
9/15/15
How much can You Really Trust the Author While many people think of fairy tales as a way of teaching kids different life lessons, and those people are not wrong, but fairy tales hold much deeper meaning and scripts that kids might not understand. This leaves the job to the adults to decipher and learn the story and see what the author had intentionally put there and in many cases unintentionally leave clues and behaviors that can be used to analyze the culture and people of that time era of the author. And of course, behind every great story there is an equally great teller/author; still no matter how great the author might be, there still is a singular point of view in which the reader …show more content…
One point that was a big change from the older story, is the fact that the third sister was the one who saves the day with rescuing everyone, unlike the other stories where it was a man that saved the women. Not only is this a win for all feminist, but the story was also authorized by a female author. In the first story of “Bluebeard” the sister calls out “Brothers, my dear brothers! Come help me!”(Grimms) before the king tries to kill her; while in the much later story “A Tuscan Bluebeard” the sister is the person that saves her other sisters from doom and demise. From a purely feminist point of view, the differences indicate an uprising for women in political status. But with all that in mind, it is weird that it seems to be a much different interpretations of the room that is forbidden. In “Bluebeard” the forbidden room is filled with “blood […] and dead women hanging along all the walls, some only skeletons.” (Grimms) compared to “A Tuscan Bluebeard” forbidden room which was described as “a marble courtyard opening on to a beautiful garden.” (Anderton). This is important because the female author chose not to demonize the man but to take away his power—he was also described as a poor man—and by doing that the female author both gave more relatable character to the man, and also gave the men in the story less power and the women more power, unlike the first story told by the