Since I have had a daughter, I have received and bought fairy tale stories to read to her for the years to come. I started to ponder about fairy tales and messages it has sent to children and adults throughout the years. I often hear songs and people write how fairy tales don't paint the true picture of life, and promise false hope for what life should be like for children. I disagree with arguments about fairy tales and I endorse them being read to children as they grow. We live in a world full of love, hope, sadness and despair. Children thrive on imagination and allowing their creative mind to develop and grow. I believe it shapes their hopes and dreams as they embark on the beginning of their lives. I began to research the history of fairy tales, and I came across an interesting bit of information. "Women typically created fairy tales with a distinct purpose in mind—to protest the societal constraints that were placed upon them and to emphasis their own rights as women in a man's world. Women like the Countess d"Aulnoy and the Contess de Murat struck back at the misery of their marriages by creating and telling fairy tales that didn't always feature happy endings", "Throughout history, tales continued to be told and retold as women spent much of their time together, spinning, weaving, and sewing. In a world where women were expected to remain silent, their tales allowed them to create heroines that were strong and enabled them to pass on stories to their daughters and granddaughters that taught powerful lessons of conquering adversity and rewarding virtuousness."
I enjoyed reading that woman were sited as the source for passing down fairy tales to their children in order to break their silence. When the prince and the princess live happily ever after, it seemed that women were expressing their hopes in aspirations in a time were duty ruled their lives. It is true that life doesn't always hand us happy endings, but I would like my daughter to grow up dreaming and hoping for every bit of happiness. She will see enough controversy and chaos in our world as she grows, and I will shelter her from it moderately as long as I can. In the meantime, I hope that she will enjoy the Disney movies of fairy tales and the stories she will be read at night. I hope her dreams will be full of hopes and dreams that will shape her as a girl and a woman.
Every woman needs a break from life to watch a love story so they can cry and gush and travel away to a perfect world for a short bit of time while reading or watching a movie. I am a true sucker for the books and the movies, and I always feel a bit of happiness and comfort at the conclusion of the book or the movie. It keeps my head sane and my heart full of hope.
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