People may like reading about the future and things that happen in times like those while ,some may like to read about myths and things related to faerie’s or basically things like fairy tales/folk tales... there are also some who may like to read about both. Though these books involve violence,at the same time they are
Violence can be categorized as many different things from physical violence to emotional violence. They both result in pain to one or many people. Violence isn’t only demonstrated with evil but can also be violent in ways of disturbing scenes. In the work Fahrenheit 451, the author Ray Bradbury uses violent scenes to show how dark and sad the society is.
Society justifies violence only in simulation. Every member of society is required to follow a set of unwritten rules to satiate our desire for cruelty. Audiences are encouraged to partake in violence on screen as a spectator but never as the perpetrator. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a similar code for violence emerges. Set to the backdrop of chivalry and courteous interactions, medieval culture serves to mask the fantasy of violence in many ways.
Despite these few instances of violence, the novel cannot be compared to movies or graphics that adolescents are exposed to today. Due to lessened parental supervision “the typical American child will view more than 200,000 acts of violence, including more than 16,000 murders before age 18. Television programs display 812 violent acts per hour; children's programming, particularly cartoons, displays up to 20 violent acts hourly” (Beresin). If adolescents are already unsheltered from this brutality, then they should also be allowed to
Many families have many traditions, but one tradition that is common among all households is that they read fairy tales to their children right before they put them to sleep. They do this to fill their minds with good positive thoughts and leave them with something to think about. Religion dictates the characteristics of familiar fairy tales as religion provides a moral and ethical framework for having a good life, an ideal goal parents want their children to have. On the whole, fairy tales are constantly changed to adhere to cultural or social beliefs that are deemed important by diverse people in a community.
I truly believe that fairy tales are horrible for children because they are frightening for children, they are not kid friendly, and questions from these kids come up when parents are not ready to answer. Fairy tales are frightening for young children. In the article “Parents Say Classic Fairy Tales Are Too Scary To Read To Kids,” an example from this text is from paragraph
When violence ensues, there is almost no stopping it, even when deities intervene. Violence will always be a factor in literature, as long as normal human tendencies are
Justyna Deszcz wrote an article based on Zipes’ political and socio-historical approach and added a variety of facts she had collected from many other authors and articles. Deszcz believes that the reason we have shifted into the submissive and “family-friendly” theme of fairy tales is because “the fairytale has been reduced to a mass-produced commodity, to be purchased and owned, and to bring in considerable profit. What is more, the fairytale is being used as a source and a vehicle of powerful self-mirroring images affirming the existing value system, and thus lulling audiences into passivity and compliance.” This point proves that the original thought of harsh realities needing to be exposed in story telling has converted to just being a profitable way to tell simple-minded children’s
Like a threaded needle sewing together a piece of fabric, violence is sewn throughout both novels as a means to control the characters within the books. Though the violence takes different forms in each novel, violence is an ever-present
Every Grimm’s’ fairy tales contains a protagonist and a villain in order to create the lesson that is taught to children. However these protagonist and villains provide a more depth situation in which kids are able to detect the good guy and the bad guy by the characteristics that each one contains. Being a protagonist signifies that they have characteristics such as being heroic, beautiful, intelligent, while the villains are always portrayed has having “poor hygiene, gluttony, laziness” (Walleston). After kids are aware who the protagonist is, they are subjected to hate the villain even more, because they are causing harm to the protagonist. The conception of only good and bad people in the fairy tales does not furnish well into reality.
I study the interpretation of meaning in fairy tales—there is a pile of scholarly books on my desk in which are buried my worn-out fairy-tale books—and I apply what I’ve learned to my editing, teaching, and writing in intricate ways. To learn the history of fairy tales is to learn the history of myth, printing, childhood, literacy, violence, loss, psychology, class, illustration, authorship, ecology, gender, and more. My first three novels—scarce of word though they may k a t e b e r n h e i m e r 64
Every fairytale has a moral or value that is incorporated into it. However, we perceive these values differently
In the original Rapunzel, she has premarital sex with the prince up in her tower, “...the two spend many days together living in “joy and pleasure”(History 1). During the time of the Grimm brothers’ this was not something that was socially accepted at all. Traces of child abuse is also found in the Grimm’s stories. Child abuse is shown in the original Snow White story when the huntsman takes her into the forest with orders to come back with her liver and lungs. There is graphic violence in Cinderella when “...the evil stepsisters cut off their toes and heels trying to make the slipper fit and later have their eyes pecked out by doves…”(History 2).
Furthermore, another aspect worth considering is the impact the depiction of such hostile behavior in fairy tales has on female readers. Girls most certainly notice (whether they do it consciously or subconsciously) that fairy tales glorify and reward beauty (Lieberman 385). When they identify with the beauties, girls tend to become suspicious of their less beautiful peers; and in case they identify with the plainer characters,
With such a dark history, it is not surprising that the Grimm brothers would be habituated to the idea of gruesome violence, and that the audience would have a similar background. Some might claim that the increase in violence is simply adding excitement and fuel to the story; however, the examples of added violence are systematic and well planned. The violence exemplified in the Grimm Brothers’ tales is not senseless acts of war. It pushed away from that ideal, moving toward reparations for good or evil deeds. They did not simply add violence to Cinderella for the sake of entertainment, but to show punishment for the wicked actions of the stepsisters.
