Fairytales In Little Red Riding Hood

Fairytales. When we hear or see that calming word, we automatically think of beautiful expensive ball gowns, charming handsome Princes, pumpkins turning into carriages, and the infamous ending of true loves first kiss. When growing up, many of us had these wonderful tales read to us before bed or at school with all of our friends. Fairytales, having been around for centuries, sends all kinds of important moral messages from being a child to facing the ‘beautiful’ world of adulthood. Growing up and being placed in the adult world, we come to terms that fairytales aren’t the classic stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Briar Rose, or Cinderella that we all know and love, its much more than that. We are surrounded by Fairytales, almost as if they
Ruth's hideous looks are her husband's excuse for treating her like an animal, and eventually leaving her for an ultra-feminine and successful woman. Traditionally in classic fairytales, way before Disney’s time, women characters, or heroines, are played to be what women are meant to be. Meaning, they are to be beautiful, be the mother and wife roles, listen to your husband, and basically have no voice. Ruth is played to be a stay at home wife and mother who is to keep quite of her husband’s actions. Most women back then didn’t have jobs, or there own money, and ones who didn’t have looks seemed to suffer more. What would they do or where will they go without money, status and power? Now, Ruth can see Mary Fisher's shallow and materialistic success and character, and she knows that they are what society respects the most. Mary even said, “Ruth will make her own way in the world. After all, she has the children” (Weldon 56). Ruth doesn't, and shouldn't accept this cruelty, for she knows that there is no justification for her husband and society's ways, and she has to get even. Ruth hasn't got anything too lose, she doesn't have any money, public status, or power, therefore she can plan her revenge without any regrets. Ruth's revenge on her disloyal husband Bobbo, is clearly about getting revenge at society, her husband, and it's ridiculous demands of women and what roles they need to play. Weldon is backlashing on fairytales. Given what we know about fairytales have we ever seen a woman out step her boundaries? Have we ever seen them get the status, the money, and happiness by doing it on their own? There was always a man presented to get them that. For instance Rapunzel, her story is very nice but unrealistic. Yes, she got the handsome Prince and “true love” in the end. But what did she actually do? She was faced upon a curse and it just so happens 100 years