Gender Norms In Fairy Tales

I chose to revise this fairy tale to correct the gender dissonance from the original tale. I believe that the ideal norms should be changed to better our society. That’s why I chose the Grimm version of Rumpelstiltskin to revise. The chosen audience for my tale is for the general audience. The fact that it can be for the general audience is because it can be read to different age groups. By reading it to different age groups it can affect how the general public view certain people because of gender norms. By changing the gender norms of society we could have a more open minded society for that other people that seem strange to us, will not be in reality. The tale can also be directed towards male adolescents and to wealthy classmen to teach the effect that can happen if we change the …show more content…
The most important moral I would like to emphasize is “Don’t judge a book by its cover” by George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss. The reason why is because you shouldn’t value by appearance you should value by what it contains. The second moral I would like to emphasize is “Treat people the way you want to be treated. Talk to people the way you want to be talked to. Respect is earned, not given” by Hussein Nishah. This moral emphasizes that respect is how you want to be treated as a person is how you should treat others and that’s how it should be done to earn it. A third moral I would like to put forth is the difference between successful people and unsuccessful people. “Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?” by Brian Tracy. This third moral can be seen as how different people with different beliefs may succeed over the other person because of how they offer help with or without a benefit. These morals can be adapted into society to promote a better way of treating each other has equals and not as superiority over