Rapunzel Thesis

Rapunzel Fairy Tales are the spark of imagination to children growing up throughout thousands years of history to our modern era. Whether it’s being told your favorite fairy tale until our parents ears want to fall off, to making them trail us around the living room pretending they are the scary beast, fairy tales have never expired in children’s hearts around the world. These stories hold value to molding children for problem solving, critical thinking, and teaching valuable life lessons. It is inarguable how fairy tales have withstood the test of time as they appeal to both older and younger generations. In the fairy tale “Rapunzel”, modern society views this fairy tale as a love story of a prince rescuing a long golden-locked teenage girl.
The only way to enter the tower is to yell "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Let down your hair!" to which Rapunzel throws her locks to the ground and lifts her guest (Grimm.) Rapunzel was lonely because of her single visitor, and was in need of an escape. Rapunzel finally receives her break when a passing by prince hears her flawless voice of songs and immediately falls in love, then discovers the secret entrance into the tower. The prince acts as an hero, a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing his or her own personal concerns for some greater good, because of his determination to be with Rapunzel and rescue her from her misery in the tower. To Rapunzel’s dismay, the Enchantress acts as the Shrew, an unpleasant, ill-tempered woman characterised by scolding, nagging, and aggression. She acts as an evil figure when she knocks the prince out of the tower to which “ being blinded in his fall from the tower” results in him wandering the forest until he finds his princess in the desert years later. The Enchantress is corrupt and greedy for Rapunzel to be only