Did Cinderella 'accidentally' lose her glass slipper or did she chuck them because high heels are always infernally difficult to run down palace stairs in?
Did all those various woodland animals- toad, woodchafer, mole- really wish to marry Thumbelina or just have her for a between-meals snack?
Did the Ugly Duckling have to become a beautiful swan to give the story its moral? Did its name suddenly become Glorious Swan with the metamorphosis? Did it even have a name?
If Aladdin was originally Chinese, why did Disney transport him to Arabia and give him a harem pants-wearing princess called Jasmine?
Doesn't the fact that the Handsome Prince kissed Sleeping Beauty despite her surely having terrible morning breath prove that men are unhygenic pigs?
What would happen to Little Red Riding Hood's identity if one fine day she lost her red riding hood and no longer remained little?
Having very smartly destroyed the wicked witch, why did Hansel and Gretel leave the gingerbread and candy cottage and skip along home to their cowardly father who had abandoned them in the woods in the first place?
Why did Pinocchio ever want to become a 'real boy' anyway?
Oh well. They all had their happy endings though.
8 comments:
LOVED it. A L.O.T.
the alladin thing i think i know.
vikram seth says that half the chinese population practises islam.
so that might explain why they dressed so unchinesely.
but those were rhetorical questions.right?
what unchinesely...they weren't even in china!
but yes, all rhetoric. nothing-better-to-do-ness.
Cow.I know.
i was just trying to explain why they might have shifted.
As in Islam.. Arabia..see?
The theory is likely to be all rot though.
i've been thinking being 18 has made me believe lesser and lesser in sincerity.
it indeed has.
zapped by this post.
@ spriblah: oh yes. mr dahl knows it all.
You know, all of those stories didn't actually have happy endings for everyone, like Red Riding Hood, life's good for her and Grandma but what about the wolf, and Cinderella, everybody's happy but what about the mice, who were turned into horses and helped Cindy get to the ball, what happens to them after Cinderella becomes princess?
P.S.-I will comment incessantly on your blog and drive you crazy. ;)
"Doesn't the fact that the Handsome Prince kissed Sleeping Beauty despite her surely having terrible morning breath prove that men are unhygenic pigs?"
Oh God HAHAHAHA love it!
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