Fairy Tales Made For Adults Not Kids

Let us call this the Age of the Summits. With so many going on, each with its own special agenda, you can be forgiven if you lose track of what each is supposed to achieve in the first place. All that yelping and yakking. I would be utterly bored and disappointed if it all turned out to be just hot air.

Cartoons and fairy tales are not written and animated for children. The Grimm Brothers were not some midgets with an IQ of 50 but lawyers. Their more famous tales included Hansel and Gretel. Lewis Caroll was a high-browed mathematician who gave us the tall tale of "Alice in Wonderland".

You would therefore expect similitude in characters they drew in real-life and story-life. They would have brilliantly made use of artwork and satires to achieve their social messages and morals. A young audience would not be able to appreciate the finer and subtler aspects of the parallels.

Think the following:

(1) Pinocchio. Exactly how many pinocchios have we encountered in our lives? That brush of the nose with the fingers is a surefire sign someone is telling a whopper.

(2) Hansel and Gretel. This smacks of a dysfunctional family with a pretentious pair of foster parents actually seeking long-term pecuniary interests out of their charges.

(3) Alice In Wonderland. The procession of the King and Queen of Hearts shows the high-handedness, stiff-upper lip and protocol-ridden monarchy.

(4) Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf. Mimicks the predatory instincts of criminals and other crackpots, be they rapists, robbers , thugs, extortionists , insurance or real estate agents.

(5) Sleeping Beauty. Had a drug overdose, what else? And waits for Prince Charming to give her a shot in the arm.

(6) Beauty and the Beast. The outcast spurned by society, condemned to a life of loneliness, ostracism and mal-treatment.

Disclaimer : All allusions alluded to are illusionary. Any similarities are regretted. If however you feel you fit the description, then it is just pure coincidence.