Young girls love to read fairytales, it is a way for them to escape into their own fantasy world. Through these fairytales, they fall in love with love and the idea of one day finding their prince charming. They do not realize that these fairytales make the female character seem weak and defenseless, or that they need a prince to succeed in life. Like in The Little Mermaid, why did the mermaid have to give up everything? In the end, she did not fit the standard of a wife for the prince to marry, he saw her as a child and nothing more. The world makes us females seem like all we look forward to is love and there is nothing that we would not give up for a man…. pfft, they wish. I agree with Serena, the fairytale The Little Mermaid justifies the idea of females losing themselves to the idea of fitting the image of what a man would want, the mermaid gave up her voice, and her family, and in the end, she was not able to get the prince to love her back.
There are some naïve little girls out there reading or watching these princess fairytales, imagining what or when will they meet their one true love, and that nothing can stand in the way of true love. The little mermaid had to constantly fight to prove her love, she gave up so much and, in the end, got nothing. She continued to fight for something that, to begin with never existed, she became obsessed with the idea of keeping him to herself and she believed that the so-called “love” she had could be enough for both.
Love can make some people do crazy things, that is what these fairytales justify and make it seem like is okay to do, they are just so good at hiding it with rainbows, dresses, glitter, and everything magical. Reading this fairytale, I can tell this was something more than love, she became obsessed and delusional she went beyond with forcing things to go her way. He did not see her the way she saw him with hearty eyes and felt like he would die if he were not near her presence, at least that is my definition of love. These fairytales are mostly about love, which is the magical part of it, and this affects a girl’s life a lot because they believe with a prince their “happy ending” would come. But they do not realize that these fairytales should show them what they should and should not accept from a man no matter how good looking he may be.
Yeah, these fairytales are fun, cute, magical and so unrealistic. I do not expect a white horse and a white prince charming to come looking for me in the ghetto. Us girls are so much more than that, like we can build our own furniture and do big girl purchases with no need of a man, it is so easy all you need to know is what a screwdriver is and a wrench. If you constantly must prove yourself to a man, he is not the one, the prince did not appreciate the mermaid and everything she did for him like she saved him and gave up the ability to swim and be on land with him. I have been on land for more than a decade and trust me I would like to swim with the mermaids. The little mermaid fairytale justified the idea of becoming obsessed but when us females go to extreme levels to prove our love to the men we are seen as delusional and feel the need to involve a restraining order like I’m just trying to love you the way the little mermaid loved her prince charming.
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