tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5417973952836164621.post4936856478172688151..comments2024-03-11T03:15:10.974-04:00Comments on The Dark Forest: Article: Are Fairy Tales Too Scary for Children?Megan Reichelthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07923802055378772533noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5417973952836164621.post-6657315814542407542014-09-09T20:13:25.979-04:002014-09-09T20:13:25.979-04:00Copeland's knowledge of fairy tales is not ext...Copeland's knowledge of fairy tales is not extensive as she thinks it is. The moral of the first edition of Charles Perrault's "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" (which he explicitly spells out at the end) is not "obey your mother and the stay on the path or you'll die" but "beware of violent and dangerous men" -- not least because the part about staying on the path was actually added by the Brothers Grimm. In other words, it's not le petit Chaperon Rouge's disobedience that dooms her, but her naïveté. The tale ultimately shows a very cruel, bleak, and unjust world. <br /><br />On a related subject, her own reworking of "Cinderella" is not free of Unfortunate Implications, like she seems to think it is. By not allowing Cinderella to cry, you could just as easily say that she's teaching her daughter that it's not OK to be sad or upset when people treat you badly (which they will inevitably do). <br />Polly Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06467248567631870439noreply@blogger.com