Here's a confession. From time to time I like reminiscing bedtime stories from my childhood. Or simply, more than liking it, I happen to go back fondly to them. Even more simply, they just pop into my head all of a sudden drawing a smile on my face.
Like now. I just went back many years ago to "The Princess and the Pea". But I can relate to numerous fairytales of the kind. For instance, "Hansel and Gretel", "Alice in Wonderland", "Thumbelina", etc.
They all have a fantastic print to them obviously, and morals to learn from, but I never really quite saw too much of that in "The Princess and the Pea". I remember it as being an especially superficial kind of fairytale for there was no actual key message in it at all. If anything, it just showed that being a princess required being too delicate to notice a pea under 20 mattresses (duh!) and beautiful at all times, even if the rain and the wind got your hair all wet and messy out of the blue.
Nevertheless, it stroke me as funny at the time and I look nostalgically back to it. I certainly learnt things like what a jester was, how ridiculously they would humiliate themselves for the nobility, how weirdly people dressed and styled their hair then, what being wealthy was about opposed to being a poor servant and how awkward princes could be. And most of all, how cool and hilarious was to see the princess suffering on top of 20 mattresses because of a pea. Yes, it made me laugh and feel empathy for her at the same time.
There's also this one story about a girl who was sort of a princess too, and she had to have her bed done really neatly, with no wrinkles at all. Otherwise, she wouldn't sleep well. What an obsessed bitch lol. I can't remember the title of that one.
Anyways, I think fairytales are so cool and every kid should have the chance to read them and be read to as they will settle a world of imagination and learnings that will certainly live on in their minds forever.
Which ones do you remember like this, if there are any? I'm sure there are! Please, share!
