Rapunzel Research Paper

Fairy tales put the children in the story in danger or in places of others to save themselves. The stories also make the women look like terrible people because of the way they treat people. Using the kids as their “shield” is not fair to the children because they have to be responsible for saving their own family or anyone else that needs it. Kids are also being stuck doing manly things or they are put up to save themselves in the stories. They do his while the men are able to do whatever they want and get away with it. They never seemed to be punished no matter how bad their crime was. Fairy tales put the children in the story at risk and make women look like monsters.

Fairy tales tend to put the kids of the story in danger and/or make …show more content…
In the beginning of the story the wife was dying to have radishes from the witches garden so the husband would get them for her. He did this until he got caught and that’s when the witch made an offer and said, “If she behave as you say I will let you take all the radishes you please, but I make one condition: you must bring me the child which your wife will bring into the world(Grimm, “Rapunzel” 67). The parents agreed to the offer so when their first child was born, they gave the baby to the witch allowing them to have the radishes(Grimm, “Rapunzel” 68). The parents of this child had no idea what would happen to their kid but they did it anyways. Rapunzel was forced to live all alone in the tower for years with means she mainly took care of herself and learned to be independent other that the witch bringing her certain things she needed. Another story that showed this pattern would be “Rumpelstiltskin”. This story was about a poor miller who gave his beautiful daughter to the King to spin straw into gold. In this story the daughter was treated very terribly and even threatened like when the king says, “Now set yourself to work, and if you have not spun this straw into gold by an early hour tomorrow you must …show more content…
No matter what the male does thy never get in trouble for it while the women are looked upon wrongly taking the blame for everything.The first story that shows this concept is “Hansel and Gretel” because in this story the parents of the two kids start running out of food and decide to get rid of the kids in the forest. This story not only shows how kids have to suffer but also shows how the female was played as a terrible mother when the wife in the story says, “we will lead them away quite early in the morning into the thickest part of the wood, and there make them a fire, and give them each a little piece of bread; then we will go to our work and leave them alone so they will not find the way home again and we will be feed from them(Grimm, “Hansel and Grethel” 56). In the story it only made the mom want to get rid of the kids while the father was the good guy saying that they should keep them. Also toward the end of the story, while the kids were in the woods, the came upon a candy house with a witch who tried eating them. They ended up killing the witch by themselves and found the way home where they found their mother dead and the father sad on couch(Grimm, “Hansel and Grethel” 62). This is what made the kids in this story very independent because they came up with ways to survive on their own. The story of “Cinderella” continues this pattern because of how her stepmother treated her. The