The Dark Side Of Disney Fairy Tales
Since the day we were born, we have always been into Disney fairy tales with beautiful happy endings. What could go wrong anything in it right?
Many things could go wrong. One example is right in front of you, you grew up reading them, and ended up thinking the world was a happy place.
I don't know if you, my readers, actually know the original stories of the Disney fairy tales. Many of the moral lessons in the original stories are quite different from the Disney versions.
Hans Christian Andersen didn’t write “The Little Mermaid” to teach us how to marry a prince but to warn us that our actions have consequences.
We grew up thinking "princesses" had a dress code.
We grew up thinking everything had a happy ending.
Bad things do happen. Why did nobody tell us?
Did you know the original Cinderella fairy tale is completely disgusting? There are two previous Cinderella stories which are both ugly, to say the least. In one of the versions, written in the 17th century, Cinderella kills her evil step-mother by slamming a lid of a chest on her throat which breaks her neck. In Brothers Grimm version, the stepsisters chop off their feet to fit the glass shoe. When this trickery is uncovered, the little birds that follow Cinderella around, peck the evil stepsisters’ eyes out. Nothing like what we had imagined.
The Sleeping beauty: In Giambattista Basile's 1634 work, the prince is unable to wake Sleeping Beauty from her slumber, which is caused by a flax splinter in her finger. So what does the prince do instead? He rapes her and leaves. Sleeping Beauty, still unconscious, becomes pregnant and gives birth to twins. One of the twins sucks on her finger, drawing out the splinter and waking his mother. Sleeping Beauty is like, "WTF, whose kids are these?" The end.
In the earliest version of The Frog Prince fairy tale, the frog's curse is broken when the princess hurls him against a wall. In some versions, the frog's head is chopped off or his skin is burned. Why any of these acts would break a curse over a simple kiss is anyone's guess.
Snow White: What we saw is that the Queen dies falling down a cliff. Snow White and her Prince Charming were married after he saved her life and lived happily ever after. But, the original ending was that the Queen tries to kill Snow White not just once but thrice. After the Prince saves Snow White from choking on the apple, they decide to get married. The evil queen is invited to the wedding where she is forced to put on hot iron shoes and made to dance until she dies.
The Little mermaid: We have all seen Little Mermaid as a kid, but not in our wildest thoughts we would have imagined her killing herself. In Hans Christian Andersen's version, the mermaid makes a deal to get legs at the cost of her voice to see the prince. True! But what we weren’t told was that the mermaid would die if she can’t get the prince to marry her. Plus, the price of having human legs was that every step she took caused excruciating amounts of pain. Towards the end, Ariel is told that she can be a mermaid again if she kills the prince. She opts to instead commit suicide.
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