Gilbert And Gubar Analysis

Furthermore, in both articles, they discuss the aspect of innocence the victims of the tricksters have. In Tatar she mentions Katniss Everdeen, the protagonist of the series The Hunger Games, to have “compassionate intensity and sexual innocence” (465). In Gilbert and Gubar Snow White‘s “absolute chastity, her frozen innocence, her sweet nullity” are what compose her innocence (390). However, despite both articles discussing how the characters portray innocence Tatar and Gilbert and Gubar idea of innocence are opposites; Tatar mentions of a sexual innocence while, Gilbert and Gubar mention of an innocence of a child. Both characters’ innocence grants them to be a victim of the tricksters developing the characters to unearth new identities …show more content…
The character has this imprisonment which, according to Gilbert and Gubar “is fought in the transparent enclosures into which both have been locked”; in this case Snow White is trapped in her glass coffin which allows her to merely be an object due to her allure to the patriarchal society (Gilbert and Gubar 388). In “The Princess in Leather” the princess “[puts] on the suit-such a strange spectacle anyone looking at her would think he was seeing nothing but a pile of hides” to escape her engagement to her father, where she was unaware of her marrying her father (176). Furthermore, she is imprisoned with her loveliness hidden under the hides due to the fact in which, when she took the hides off “the ladies who had been so merry began to quarrel, each wanting to sit beside the newcomer” she gathered attention through her attractiveness which will soon lead to the discovery of who she is (“The Princess in Leather” 178) The beauty is their imprisonment due to the fact in which it leads both princesses to have an obstacle of either being an object for men or being discovered. Additionally, the women become imprisoned in the patriarchal society for they become simply an object for men; the patriarchal society which shows women to be submissive to the obsession of being beautiful such as the Evil Queen in Gilbert and Gubar. This ideal also ties to the concept of beauty having its consequence in this case the consequence is it has become an imprisonment for both women. They both, however, surpass this imprisonment Snow White by becoming conscious and not a corpse in the glass coffin and the princess being discovered by the prince. The imprisonment which both captivated them has allowed them to prosper and be strong. They surpassed this imprisonment they had to the patriarchal society; yet in