Fairytales, as we all know, always convey some simple and valuable opinions to children. They teach children some basic and simple norms of life. Dispensing justice, finding true love are always the core meanings of fairytales, however, when I read the fairytale thoroughly, I feel a little uncomfortable of it. The story Pig King is a story about finding true love. The prince of a country is born with curse which is that he has to marry 3 times to become back to human form, so the story describes the prince killed the first two wives and lived with the third wife happily with the human form. Its ending sounds reasonable and romantic, however, when I thought it carefully I raised a question: Is it properly to let kids read a tale that the prince
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They seemed not scared by the violence part of the story but only focus on the love between the prince and his lovers, which makes me surprised and motives me to find out the reason of the phenomenon of kids. When I analyzed the fairy tale again, I found some tricky methods the author use to get his goal. The author's tone for developing his story varies from time to time. When he described the kids' part, he used a delighting tone, “When he saw how lovely and desirable she was he was filled with joy, and, all foul and dirty as he was, jumped round about her, endeavouring by his pawing and nuzzling to show some sign of his affection.”(44), author used action descriptions to describe the actions of the happy pig when he saw his bride. He jumping around her showed that he was very happy. Pawing and nuzzling showed the good impression of the pig. Those details can all give readers a good feeling. However, when the author described the violent part, he used a tricky tone to let kids not to pay attention to it. “At last the girl assented to take the pig prince for a husband; but her fate was no happier than her sister's, for the bridegroom killed her, as he had killed his other bride, and then fled headlong from the palace.”(45) The author did not write the detail that how he killed his second wife in some vivid words. He just described it no happier than, which gave me an impression that she died in a
They seemed not scared by the violence part of the story but only focus on the love between the prince and his lovers, which makes me surprised and motives me to find out the reason of the phenomenon of kids. When I analyzed the fairy tale again, I found some tricky methods the author use to get his goal. The author's tone for developing his story varies from time to time. When he described the kids' part, he used a delighting tone, “When he saw how lovely and desirable she was he was filled with joy, and, all foul and dirty as he was, jumped round about her, endeavouring by his pawing and nuzzling to show some sign of his affection.”(44), author used action descriptions to describe the actions of the happy pig when he saw his bride. He jumping around her showed that he was very happy. Pawing and nuzzling showed the good impression of the pig. Those details can all give readers a good feeling. However, when the author described the violent part, he used a tricky tone to let kids not to pay attention to it. “At last the girl assented to take the pig prince for a husband; but her fate was no happier than her sister's, for the bridegroom killed her, as he had killed his other bride, and then fled headlong from the palace.”(45) The author did not write the detail that how he killed his second wife in some vivid words. He just described it no happier than, which gave me an impression that she died in a