Timeline by Didi Mahathorn

introduction

dkm17 — 2024-07-16 02:08:15 UTC

writing about my topic

charles perrault + feminism

how perrault portrays women

perraults morals

dkm17 — 2024-07-16 02:09:59 UTC

doing a deep dive on his morals at the end of the story

talking about bluebeard morals

sleeping beauty in the wood morals

how they are different

bluebeard - dont make sense

wood - ignored a whole chunk of the story

marriage

dkm17 — 2024-07-16 02:12:32 UTC

Perrault's stories reflect societal norms with marriage as the ultimate goal for women.

bluebeard - demonstrates women's subservience and lack of agency through the wife's disastrous marriage.

wood - portrays a positive marriage but conflicts with the ogre mother, casting powerful women as antagonists.

Rewards passive women, vilifies powerful women, reinforcing societal expectations.
Tales uphold patriarchal values, emphasizing obedience and virtue in women.

female character analysis

dkm17 — 2024-07-16 02:17:10 UTC

female characters are seem as weak

resilience (rowe)

curiosity is what saved the brides life + taking action and saving herself (even tho she got saved by her brothers in the end, wouldve gotten killed later anyways)

sleeping beauty - keeps waiting for her prince to show up to save her

in the castle when she was asleep
when his mom was about to eat her

not capable of saving themselves.

historical context

dkm17 — 2024-07-16 02:18:54 UTC

looking further into each of the stories timeline and when they were first published by perrault

doing a deep dive on what was happening around the time and more about perraults character

gender roles of that time + what was expected of women and men and marriage

how misogynistic were ppl around that time

conclusion

dkm17 — 2024-07-16 02:20:33 UTC

concluding all the points and drawing my argument whether perrault was acc a lowkey misogynist or just wanted to be sneaky about his thoughts and wanted to keep the reader thinking