tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891413849014978068.post4716140800736002794..comments2023-05-25T07:29:33.866-04:00Comments on A Faceless Author: The Crime of Ideas: When Stories Touch A NerveJaya Lakshmihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05768626295383622935noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891413849014978068.post-73968039279676011162015-07-07T23:17:53.165-04:002015-07-07T23:17:53.165-04:00Theresa-
First, thank you so much for the complime...Theresa-<br />First, thank you so much for the compliment on Carousel! I'm glad that you liked it and hope that you can email me with your thoughts. :)<br />I guess the difference with fairy tales is that no matter what the incarnation, whether or not the darker and earlier incarnations, that it doesn't feel like the author is deliberately trying to corrupt the original. Each version is a little different, so that we can justify that one author's take will be quite different from another. Funny that you mention The Little Mermaid, since one of my posts from 2013 was on that short story and the Disney adaptation. <br />Disney does sanitize some of the elements, but the early films and even the modern ones touch on scary elements and visuals: no one likes Pinocchio, for example because of Pleasure Island and Monstro the Whale. Snow White's Evil Queen scared many kids, especially with her transformation into a hag , while Cinderella's stepmother reflected realistic abuse and control over another person's life. <br />I would like to see a post on the Disney-ized tales, since I'm a big Disney fan and I am curious as to what I have missed.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15786475206547123446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2891413849014978068.post-19712878767016191362015-07-07T13:00:39.093-04:002015-07-07T13:00:39.093-04:00It is a rather difficult topic to try keep from sa...It is a rather difficult topic to try keep from saying "this is so wrong and shouldn't be done", but then again you have to also look on what was written in the past too before "Creepypastas" became a thing.<br /><br />A lot of the fairy tales we know and love today were rather dark back in the day of being first told and written down, and for good reason. They were originally cautionary stories, much like the Pipe Piper you used in Carousel (Which I loved the book by the way), based on real events but turned into something a bit more magical or not so believable.<br /><br />For example: Cinderella's step sisters had cut off their toe and heel to fit in the shoe, and it was their blood that dripped from it that indicated that they weren't the right one. (now granted the original was also more explicit in the sexual aspect as well as it was written for adults originally by Perrirot, and the Grimm brothers made it more "child friendly" by taking out the sex and leaving in the cutting off of parts....) Or the Little Mermaid having her tongue cut out so she was a mute as her price.<br /><br />Little Red Riding Hood was probably the most horrific (Along with Blue Beard, but that one was taken out of the second addition of grim's fairy tales) originally. There was actually a version where the wolf actually told Riding hood to take off her cloths, throw them into the fire, and climb into bed with him...<br /><br />But it also depends on how a generation grew up as well to stomach the darker, less happy things. I grew up with the originals of fairy tales, but a lot of people don't realize how "Disneyized" some of those stories are before they were even touched by Disney (due to several reasons, but I'm not going into those because then this comment would be as long as your post xD;;). So It's understandable how it's hard to picture some of the things you grew up in a darker light or even in a less... settling light.<br /><br />-TheresaAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04060539900001516367noreply@blogger.com