Today we were talking about the physiological importance of fairytales.
We went through what some of our chosen tales are about, we came up with:
Iron Hans - Make the right of passage
Hansel and Gretel - Abandonment of children
Ashputtel - Father remarries and ignores his daughter
There isn't much of a variety with Ashputtel compared to the other stories. Each of these stories are all very similar and don't have much of a difference besides the meanings of the stories.
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, 1843
Guardians of the FairyTale:
The Brothers Grimm
By Thomas O'Neill
Once upon a time there lived, in Germany, two brothers who loved a good story - one with magic and danger, royalty and rogues. As boys they played and studied together, tight as a knot, savouring their childhood in a small town. But their father died unexpectedly and the family grew poor. One brother became sickly; the other, serious beyond his years. At school they met a wise man who led them to a treasure - a library of old books with tales more seductive than any they had ever heard. Inspired, the brothers began collecting their own stories, folk-tales told to them mostly by women, young and old. Soon the brothers brought forth their own treasure - a book of fairy tales that would enchant millions in faraway places for generations to come.
Fairytales teach children how to handle their problems. From watching and listening to characters within a story, they help us connect to our own lives and show us how to overcome dreams and anxieties and also what we would do in their shoes. Fairytales will help children how to navigate their lives as they grow up. We are shown that our problems can be overcome even in the darkest of our days. Real life situations are put into scenarios and the characters we watch are overcoming them, this gives us hope that we can overcome what we are struggling with in life.
Rapunzel within Tangled is afraid to leave her tower because of her mother. She has a dream that she is trying to achieve but she keeps having to stop because of her fears. The audience is shown that even if you have a dream that you are afraid to achieve, you can achieve it when you try. Rapunzel is afraid to leave her tower where she has been for 18 years, her mother ties her to it and protects her from the outside life just for Rapunzel to go out into the big world, flee the nest and go out on her own. This is all she wanted to do. And this is like a normal teenager who is just wanting to leave and go against their parents rules but we are being stopped by parents. Disney gives children and adults the hope that we can achieve anything and this is why fairytales are important. Disney princesses and the other characters give us hope that we can do anything even when we get put down and think that we can't do this.
When Rapunzel 'sees the light', she reflects upon her life within the tower when she goes back, after seeing the light as if it is from a light from Christ, she realises her fate and her real life, who she really is.
Even the title of "Tangled" presents the problems we come across, that our lives will get in a mess of knots and we will get tangled up in them. The story then uncovers and 'untangles' the title and shows us how to sort out our problems.
Beauty and The Beast shows that we can love anyone, no matter what they look like, the love is always there and we are motivated to love someone, no matter who they are. Belle isn't aware that the Beast is a prince, but she falls in love with him anyway, not because of his heritage or that he is a beast. We are taught to accept the ugliness inside of us, even if this is acne or if we don't like how we look. The beast teaches us to accept this and the flaw we have is ok because he is accepted and loved, just because of how he looks. If you relax and accept your flaw then you can learn to ignore it, such as the beast does, he ignores his flaw and forgets about it which is why the rose nearly dies, he doesn't notice that his time is wasting away because he is happy that someone has actually fallen in love with him, despite his beastly-ness. Its one thing to be beautiful on the inside but its another to be beautiful on the outside.
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