![]() Not only is she awakened by a stranger but she eventually marries him, although she does not know him at all.įurthermore, the tale has various plots that were written by multiple authors throughout the time. As the girl is clearly unconscious, this is a case of sexual harassment as she is unable to give the prince her consent. In the most famous retellings of Sleeping Beauty, the princess is awakened from her curse-induced coma with a kiss. The controversy lies within this feminine double standards where the villains are overly powerful and violent characters in comparison to the weak and helpless protagonists. Shamna (2017) states that: “Motherhood is thus degraded in most of these fairy tales and simultaneously young boys are indirectly encouraged to disregard and neglect their own mothers” (p. Ironically, it creates a fear based correlation between children and their mothers. This contrast does not really convey a healthy familial environment or a stable parent-children relationship. ![]() ![]() What is mostly interesting is that the villains in these stories are almost exclusively women, including mothers and stepmothers. ![]() Fairytales have a tendency to revolve around helpless female characters and their macho hero coming to the rescue. ![]()
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