Sunday, November 11, 2012
A modern fairy tale
“Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. “There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case. There are no longer simple tales with quests and beasts and happy endings. The quests lack clarity of goal or path. The beasts take different forms and are difficult to recognize for what they are. And there are never really endings, happy or otherwise. Things keep overlapping and blur, your story is part of your sister’s story is part of many other stories, and there in no telling where any of them may lead. Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.”
This is the kind of fairy tales I'll read my little girl someday to let her know waiting for a prince is unnecessary since she has the magic sword that can save her inside her heart of hearts, and to my little boy, too, to remind him that every girl is strong enough to handle her own life if she decides to, and it won't make him less of a man to let his girl do exactly that.
# posted by Liana : 9:46 PM
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