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A fairy tale Snow White ... many interpretations

Surfing the internet, I found an article that sees the tale as a bridge between cultures ... argument that I have already proposed ... At the end of this article I found a link that sends me back to a window where he talks about the different ways of interpreting a story, so I decided to treat this subject, because, nowadays, it is useful to see the attitudes of different cultures.

The fairy tale, a genre seemingly simple directness and efficiency, in fact conceals very complex structures that have been classified and interpreted. Bettelheim states that "The meaning of the tale is different for each person and different for the same person at different times of his life. The child draws a different meaning of the same story depending on their interests and needs of the moment. Him when given the chance, he returns to the same story when it is ready to process old meanings, or to replace them with new meaning. "

Several are the approaches and interpretations of the tale, as well as attempts to bring it in fixed patterns.

Reading in key ethnological (Propp)

Propp connects the story to the ancient rites of initiation. The stories would have replaced the ancient rites of initiation and rites of passage of prehistoric civilizations.
According to this interpretation of Little Red Riding Hood is the initiation into adulthood, the forest is a place of passage, the wolf swallowed the symbolic and the actual time spent inside the animal totem, the rebirth and return to the world representing his entry into adulthood.

Reading in a historical-ideological (Dartnton)

The tale reflects the historical events and political boundaries between social classes, and those who support Dartnton historicizing fairy tales and putting them in their historical and political context.
Using this key, Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother are to be eaten without having done anything wrong, and this does not upset those listeners accustomed to suffer all kinds of abuse of power by local strongmen, who do not receive any explanation nor have the right to ask for it. This interpretation fits all the medieval stories, and may have inspired the author in writing Dallari as Cinderella, Snow White, Puss in the Scarpaccia. The questioning of a passive in front of Cinderella's fate comes from the feminist critique, that the stepsisters and stepmother, desirous of emancipation and mundane choices, are opposed to a tedious and beset by Cinderella cleaning, neurotic but devoted to her duty , which does not question for any reason. These controfiabe have not been very successful because desecrate cultural pillars untouchables for centuries. The attempt to overturn in a few provocative element of the classic fairy tale, and rework it in an ironic way static and dynamism, setting in stone, could not be substantiated. The attitude of rejection by teachers and parents, not about ideology, but the instrument used.

Reading mythological tale

The tale is related to natural phenomena, the alternation of day and night and seasons, the rituals of the ancient myths the conflicts between men and explanation of the origin of the world. According to this reading Little Red Riding Hood in the light of day (the sun red) is swallowed by the night (the belly of the wolf) to be reborn to new life when the hunter free.

Reading in key psychoanalytic (Freud, Bettelheim, Jung, von Franz ...)

According to these authors, the tale is a clear expression of deep psychic structure, to mostly unconscious, of universal value. The fairy tale, slips of the tongue, dreams are valves through which the subconscious communicates and brings to light the problems removed. With the key psychoanalytic
, according to the Freudian school shooting by Bettelheim, Little Red Riding Hood is the meeting of pre-adolescent with adult sexuality. The red cap represents the first period and the recommendation of her mother and bans the dangers of sexuality and transgression Red Riding Hood's attempt to eliminate the mother as a sexual rival, and the wolf the masculine seductive and destructive against the hunter, responsible father figure strong and savior. The swallowing of the girl represents the sexual encounter, and his expulsion by opening the belly, birth and the birth of a new level of maturity reached. Importantly, in this regard, the mending of the wolf, which was filled of stones, to overcome the anguish of birth and death related to it, the child inevitably associated with this step of the tale (as specified in the post about this story). The happy ending of fairy tales allows, in infancy, childhood, and to address the existential problems of sexual identification and emerge unscathed, and landing in an emotional and sexual maturity.
von Franz interprets the stories starting from the current Jungian psychoanalysis, which allows greater freedom of movement because it has already preordained categories and fixed (the libido and sexual development), and let the story speak independently. The archetypes and the collective unconscious are the critical issues of this type of interpretation.