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The cartoon I have chosen centers around the theme of Rapunzel’s long hair. The scene is a ‘high school’ Rapunzel getting picked up for prom by her date. Her date is in a blue tuxedo, standing next to a car and is saying “I like you with your hair up”. Rapunzel is wearing purple floor-length dress and has her hair braided/woven up in a long stack on top of her head.   As discussed in class, hair can be seen in fairy tales as a symbol of femininity, strength, beauty, and sexuality. In the original Brothers Grimm fairy tale and Disney film ‘Tangled’ Rapunzel’s long hair seems to also serve a purpose. In both her hair is used to ensure she is unable to leave the tower in which Mother Gothel locks her in, it also ensures that there is only one way up to the tower to deter outsiders. In Disney’s ‘Tangled’ Rapunzel’s hair also has magic qualities; it can give youth and heal wounds. The symbolism of the hair is also present in both tales and due to the ease at which th

All three tales “Fitcher’s Bird” by Brothers Grimm, “The Robber Bridegroom” by Brothers Grimm and “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault has significant similarities. All three start with marriage and unhappy ones. Generally, in fairy tales, marriage is the reward for good and happens at the end of the fairy tale. In all the tales the man is evil/bad. Normally it is an evil woman, stepmother or witch who deserves to be punished at the end of the fairy tale. Not only is the man evil in all three tales he murdered his previous wives. The evidence of these murders is quite graphic as in one of the tales the protagonist watches another bride get killed and in the other two tales, the protagonist finds a room with dead bodies and blood. There is also the presence of curiosity in the tales. The female protagonist was curious either about where her husband to be lived or what was in the room which was forbidden. The curiosity creates this idea that the female protagonists in the tales are at fault