When I started writing my fairy tale for this assignment, I wanted to focus on features such as transformation and gender by creating a story centered on a female protagonist and her journey into adulthood. And throughout my story, a coming of age tale unfolds in which the protagonist goes on a quest to find three items and is ultimately set free from the abusive grips of her paternal figures. I emulated themes from the Brothers Grimm version of Cinderella by including certain motifs that are present in the tale such as troublesome paternal figures, impossible tasks, magical creatures within nature that help the protagonist, and an ending that features justice. However, I altered the normal progression of the fairy tale genre, by piecing
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The American poet Anne Sexton, in a caustic sequence of poems called Transformations, scathingly evokes the corpselike helplessness of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, and scorns, with fine irony, the Cinderella dream of bourgeois marriage and living happily ever after: boredom, torment, incest, death to the soul followed”(Warner). I wanted to question the norms that fairy tales often have and write a tale that features women being oppressed, but ultimately escaping and being able to live a conventional yet pleasant life without any male …show more content…
But what I learned from doing this assignment is that by analyzing the construction of gender roles in fairy tales, we are able to develop a more comprehensive understanding of how societal norms are reinforced. And in return, by having a broader understanding of this subject it makes it difficult to write something that steers away from common themes that could be interpreted as being oppressive. Writing a story that follows the typical motions of a fairy tale is the easy thing to do, because typical fairy tales are what we are accustomed to. This is an expansive topic and I felt overwhelmed at times when trying to write a simple story. However, I am now better equipped when discussing fairy tales and when thinking about how this genre operates as a
The American poet Anne Sexton, in a caustic sequence of poems called Transformations, scathingly evokes the corpselike helplessness of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, and scorns, with fine irony, the Cinderella dream of bourgeois marriage and living happily ever after: boredom, torment, incest, death to the soul followed”(Warner). I wanted to question the norms that fairy tales often have and write a tale that features women being oppressed, but ultimately escaping and being able to live a conventional yet pleasant life without any male …show more content…
But what I learned from doing this assignment is that by analyzing the construction of gender roles in fairy tales, we are able to develop a more comprehensive understanding of how societal norms are reinforced. And in return, by having a broader understanding of this subject it makes it difficult to write something that steers away from common themes that could be interpreted as being oppressive. Writing a story that follows the typical motions of a fairy tale is the easy thing to do, because typical fairy tales are what we are accustomed to. This is an expansive topic and I felt overwhelmed at times when trying to write a simple story. However, I am now better equipped when discussing fairy tales and when thinking about how this genre operates as a