Breaking the Spells from Once Upon A Time: Relation Fairy Tales to Women Disempowerment

Abstract

Reading fairy tales is probably one of the most remarkable practices from everyone’s childhood. Who does not know the tales of Cinderella and Snow White? Even the elderly people surely know who they are and how their stories started from ‘Once upon a time’ and ended with ‘they lived happily ever after’. This only proves how strong fairy tales have marked our lives. They continue to exist generation over generation, giving every girl a hope of having a life story like a fairy tale. But fairy tales are just fantasies - unreal. How could one possibly dream of living in a perfect world when in fact, that isn’t the reality and flaws do come in to our lives? What’s more important is to know who we really are, and the role we have to play in the reality we’re living. If deeply scrutinized, writers seem to be using fairy tales in conveying messages to their readers. Thus, conducting a research on how fairy tales should be interpreted including their impact to all readers shall be of great significance.