Heard on NPR this morning, in a discussion about notions of beauty in fairy tales (slightly paraphrased from memory):
In a Grimm’s tale, when a women was called beautiful meant she was docile, domesticated, subservient–quite often comatose….”
–Jack Zipes, folklorist
hitchhiker
LOL -- too true, that 🙂
delennara
Yeah, taht is much like children beiing SOOOO CUTE, looking like ANGELS when they sleep.
Then they awake and you have some little devils.
kightp
Wasn’t that a great interview? I loved the stuff he said about how peasant folk tales paint their heroines as much more resourceful and powerful than the middle- and upper-class tales collected by the Bros. Grimm.