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Masculinity In Robert Bly's Iron John

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Moreover, Robert Bly interprets a fairy tale called “Iron John” or “ Iron Hans” in a totally different way that shows a new perspective of masculinity. In the story, there is a hunter going to the forest with his dog. Suddenly, his dog is grabbed by a hand from a pond so that the hunter knows the pond is the place where is considered to be weird by people in castle. Then the hunter gathers three more men with buckets starting to bucket out the water. Finally, they find a hairy man lying on the bottom of the pond who is “Iron John”. The king locks him up in the backyard and let the Queen keeps the key. Bly declares that “When a contemporary man looks down into his psyche, he may, if conditions are right, find under the water of his soul,
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