The Dark Origins of Fairy-tales- 2020
This is an older project from my final year in college. The project explores the original fairy-tales and how they progressed over the years to fit society's change in morals. The original stories were much darker and their message appeared to suggest that if you were not beautiful or young as a woman then you would be punished. Many of the female characters of original fairy-tales were unjustly punished for their actions while the male characters would have their crimes forgiven, or even be rewarded for their wrong doings. Here I explores the sexism found in these stories origins and how they still concern us today with things such as the #metoo Movement and body positivity campaigns. Our media and pop culture still judges women in everything they do and these stories appear to link to this modern commentary