grimm essay
April 16, 2021•198 words
Text 1: Little Red Riding Hood
Text 2: Sleeping Beauty
Thesis: To what extent does the portrayal of women in Little Red Riding Hood and Sleeping Beauty adhere to “the cinderella complex”
Structure:
Intro
Entroduce stories
What will I investigate
What is the cinderella complex
State that in both stories, the women depend on a man to save them
How does this link to the cinderella complex
Main body 1
Brief account of Little Red Riding Hood
Naive
How she's saved → perverted?
Link to cinderella complex
Main body 2
Brief account of Sleeping Beauty
Naive
How she's saved → are men inherently predatory?
Link to cinderella complex
Conclusion
Similarities → temptation, naive, submissive, male savior
By integrating the Cinderella complex into these fairytales, the Grimm brothers fueled their own savior complex which subsequently benefitted the patriarchy at the time.
Works cited:
Grimm, Jacob, and Wilhelm Grimm. Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: a New English Version ; Adapted by Philip Pullman. Penguin Books, 2013.
Dubino, Jeanne. "The Cinderella complex: Romance fiction, patriarchy and capitalism." Journal of Popular Culture 27.3 (1993): 103.
Robinson, Gwen. "The Cinderella complex: Punishment, society and community sanctions." Punishment & Society 18.1 (2016): 95-112