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In twelve pages this paper examines ten versions of the Rapunzel story and what how these stories are told reveal about the societies and cultures of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, Great Britain, and the United States. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography.
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When collected and published, they quickly circulated from one country to another, with various adjustments applied to make the stories culturally relevant. Fairytales commonly feature a damsel in distress
or female who must be rescued by typically an aristocratic young nobleman, with whom she falls in love, gets married, has children, and happily lives with for the rest of
her life (Wolf, 2004). Traditional fairytales typically follow this patter, according to Jack Zipes 1989 text Dont Bet on the Prince: * Females are poor girls or beautiful princesses
who will only be rewarded if they demonstrate passivity, obedience, and submissiveness; * Stepmothers are always evil; * The best woman is the housewife; * Beauty is the highest value
for women; * Males should be aggressive and shrewd; * Money and property are the most desirable goals in life; * Magic and miracles are the means by which social
problems are solved; * Fairy tales are implicitly racist because they often equate beauty and virtue with the color white and ugliness with the color black; * Fairy tales assume
heterosexuality as the normative and "natural" view (Wolf, 2004, p. 172). A popular fairytale typically referred to by scholars as The Maiden in the Tower, more commonly known to
contemporary readers as Rapunzel, is indicative of this traditional fairytale structuring. In most versions of this story, the heroine is a
young Caucasian blonde who is considered the most beautiful young girl in the world. She is forced into passive obedience by a cruel adoptive mother/which and isolated from the
rest of the world by being locked in a tower. A prince promptly catches a glimpse of her, becomes smitten by her looks and her singing voice, proposes marriage,
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