Disclaimer: I do not own any fairy tales that the Princesses are in, nor do I own Disney, The Brothers Grim (original writers of these stories), or anything that has done a spinoff of these fairy tales.
Chapter nine: Tangled
While trying to think of a way to not be harsh on this but at the same time put some realism into the installment, I decided to skip retelling the story and just get to the points that need to be addressed. (Somebody requested to not go harsh on this story) I realized I would not be able to think of a way to not be harsh if I did retell the story. The story is not that bad, but more like misunderstood prospective. Unlike my usual work that comes in paragraphs, I am going to do thing in a list style. The reader has been warned.
The old lady used a flower to keep living and the royal family took it. The royal family did not know it was her flower and at least she did not rip it out of the ground to keep in her tower.
When the queen drank the abstract of the flower, she might have gained eternal youth from it. It would explain why she had not aged in 18 years. One could point out that historically, young girls were forced to marry older men making her still be young after 18 years; however, the king and queen look to happy for the marriage to be forced and before a forcedly married pair can actually be in love with each other, the world dictated that the girl had to be pregnant with the persons she is marring child before they pair got married. The marriage just looks to happy when the heroin is born for it to be an arranged marriage.
The old lady did not originally want to take the baby; she just wanted a lock of the hair. When she found out that it did not work, then she made the choice to take the baby. It is safe to assume over time, the old lady did grow to love the child as her own and want to protect the child. It happens with many adopted parents. The things that she wants to protect the child from are understandable considering her age. One would have to think of everything she has lived though. She lived and grew up in a harsh world that she wants to protect the young princess from. Her view of the world comes from what she has lived through and seen, making her actually know best. This brings up a topic on maturity and wisdom but I will talk about that on the profile instead of this installment.
The last thing being said, the reptile that the princess has is also right when it signals her to the princess to leave the tower. Granted the princess's reasons for leaving the tower are trivial, but if anything, she needs life experience, to grow and mature, and to gain a view on the world. In other words, in order to actually do some growing, she needs to spend a few days out side of the tower.
The horse is the only smart person in the royal guard or army, what every they want to call it; however, the horse acts more like a human detective with a 100% case solving success rate and the people who are support to be doing the actual work are just bumbling, I am going to blatantly say it, morons. (I would say niggers, but most people mistaken the definition for the word nigger as a racial slur rather than a word that just means that a person is ignorant. The actual definition for nigger is a person that is plain out ignorant; it is not a racial slur, stop using it as one.)
The thieves and the people in the bar are actually smarter than the people who guard the royal family; then again, everybody is smarter than those guys.
When the princess finds out that she is in fact the princess, she acts like the old lady has never made an effort to be a good parent. She does not even act grateful for how well she was taken care of or how well she was actually educated compared too many other people in the kingdom, or the fact that she was not forced into a marriage and was allowed to be as created and well read as she chose. Back then, all she did in the tower was considered a bad thing for girls and women to do. Men liked their women to be uneducated, naïve, submissive, and ready for any abuse that he felt like dishing out. She was not raised that way by the old lady, in many ways, she was raised better then she could have been raised, especially with the belief going around at the time that states that all women and girls are evil and must be abused and put in their place. They did not educate them, they did not let them try things, they just told them a pile of lies and had them learn to be submissive, take abuse, and pop out babies.
If you did not notice, literally everything the old lady did was to either protect the princess or keep her happy. She thought the princess wanted her to be the bad guy, so she played the bad guy. In any real life outlook, the old lady is not evil at all, a protagonist, yes, but neither strait up evil nor a hole that is connected to a valve movement.
The ended for the princess was a happy ending, and everybody is allowed a happy ending from time to time.
The only thinks that are unrealistic about this story might be the magic flower, the magic hair, and the animals being smarter than everybody else. Most of it is protrude to be pretty realistic, all the way down to the guards being stupid. Not many people where smart back them, which is one of the why Cinderella is a bit of a disappointment.
Next: Frozen
