Friday, October 11, 2019

Sleeping beauty

The story of sleeping beauty defines women as weak. The different versions of the story “Sleeping Beauty”, consist of the idea that women need men in order to survive. In the original story, sleeping beauty can not wake up unless she is kissed my the prince. This describes that women are nothing without men. This simply is not true. The first original story of sleeping beauty was created between 1330 and 1344. During this time period, women were seen as objects and not human beings. Men depended on the “ hopelessness” of a women to boost their egotistical manners. In the first revision of the original story, sleeping beauty had woken up to 2 babies. Her prince or her “ first love” had raped her. The author of the story depicted sleeping beauty as a weak women who needed a man in her life to give her happiness. This phenomenon of the fairytale depicts sleeping beauty as a stupid human being that only cares about a man. Without a man, she is nothing.
As a feminist, the plot of this story tells the readers how men are and how they treated them. They were not treated equal. Many people can make a case against this opinion and say that women are the reason for men’s happiness.  If it were not for women, men would not be the way that they are today. If it were not for women, a lot of us wouldn’t be here today. This world evolves around women.

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