The question was asked whether or not the author of this piece was sick. That's not an easy question to answer, one must take into consideration numerous variables: her love, her self-appreciation, her goals, her ambitions and how much she was willing to give up for those things. It is not for us to decide if one is sick if they believe in fairy tales but if you believe in fairy tales and how they change you.
My parents have always let me do what I wanted, never telling me that I couldn't do something because I was too small, too young, too delicate, so I've been more independent than some of my other friends and yet, I still want someone to take care of me. I think it has to do with being the youngest and only girl in the family, the baby, the one who was always taken care of.
Parents often unconsciously alter the views of their children through speech, sayings, actions, etc while not even realizing it.
In order to be Cinderella, you can't be yourself - you must lose part of yourself; "amputations"
Turning to quiz: In the artistic retelling of fairy tales, does art help counteract ideology (being wounded by wishes)?
I think that art can counteract the ideology of the old fairy tale when it is retold, if they allow it to fit our frame of reference. If the story is retold the same way it has been told for hundreds of years, the message could be outdated, or not needed any longer. So instead of simply retelling the story of Atlas, the author delves deeper into it, questioning Atlas' emotions, his motives for doing what he's doing and in the end, its no longer the same exact story. The ideology has been shifted with the retelling, and subsequent altering, of the story.
Angela Carter's "Ashputtle"
In Ashputtle, the mother sacrificed herself for her daughter in order to help her become independent but did the daughter learn her lesson? As readers, our own experiences shape how we interpret the end of the story, reading differently whether or not she learned what her mother was willing to teach her.
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