Responding to the Critic’s idea:
Young girls tend to imagine and dream of being whisked away by a charming and wealthy prince because of fairytales like Cinderella that show and encourage it.
I agree with Jack Zipes’ analysis on the decisions that women in fairy tales make. This supports the fairytale Cinderella and the decision that Cinderella made. Jack Zipes says that “comic endings call upon young females to value communal stability over individual needs.” meaning that the women in fairy tales made the decision to chose communal stability which is marrying a wealthy and handsome prince instead of individual needs, which is being an independent woman who looks after herself, provides her herself and creates her own wealth instead of …show more content…
I agree that in the fairytale Cinderella, when the birds dress Cinderella up and turn mice into horses, a pumpkin into a carriage etc. shows the imaginative assent of what Jack Zipes’ suggests. All this ‘magic’ that is used for Cinderella to meet the prince and have a ‘magical’ nights at the ball, emphasises the “imaginative assent” of it all. That for her to marry the prince she needed to dress up and have ‘magic’ for her to lead to the idea that marriage was the best of all possible worlds. That if she wanted to escape from her wicked stepmother and sisters this was the best and only option. She got carried away with the “imaginative assent” of it all, which lead her to marrying the prince and choosing communal stability.
Jack Zipes’ analysis on women in fairy tales supports my hypothesis of the women always being owned by someone and choosing to be belonged by someone as they see it being the best of both possible worlds, when being independent should be the best of both possible worlds because women shouldn’t have to feel that they should always belong to someone, but that they can do things for themselves and look after
Young girls tend to imagine and dream of being whisked away by a charming and wealthy prince because of fairytales like Cinderella that show and encourage it.
I agree with Jack Zipes’ analysis on the decisions that women in fairy tales make. This supports the fairytale Cinderella and the decision that Cinderella made. Jack Zipes says that “comic endings call upon young females to value communal stability over individual needs.” meaning that the women in fairy tales made the decision to chose communal stability which is marrying a wealthy and handsome prince instead of individual needs, which is being an independent woman who looks after herself, provides her herself and creates her own wealth instead of …show more content…
I agree that in the fairytale Cinderella, when the birds dress Cinderella up and turn mice into horses, a pumpkin into a carriage etc. shows the imaginative assent of what Jack Zipes’ suggests. All this ‘magic’ that is used for Cinderella to meet the prince and have a ‘magical’ nights at the ball, emphasises the “imaginative assent” of it all. That for her to marry the prince she needed to dress up and have ‘magic’ for her to lead to the idea that marriage was the best of all possible worlds. That if she wanted to escape from her wicked stepmother and sisters this was the best and only option. She got carried away with the “imaginative assent” of it all, which lead her to marrying the prince and choosing communal stability.
Jack Zipes’ analysis on women in fairy tales supports my hypothesis of the women always being owned by someone and choosing to be belonged by someone as they see it being the best of both possible worlds, when being independent should be the best of both possible worlds because women shouldn’t have to feel that they should always belong to someone, but that they can do things for themselves and look after