Caloosahatchee Jit Times

          I cannot know the answer to this question however in my opinion, simply put, they do not. I do not feel like these fairy tales shape any way women are viewed in society. I do not think that anyone in power with influence takes into account medieval fairy tale depictions of women, morals, and adages found in fairy tales into their professional decision making roles or opinions of women. What I am trying to say is that I do not think fairy tales are at all important to the identity of a people (women in this case). Fairy tales are obsolescent, if not entirely obsolete. And, they play an at most minor role in our American culture. I think that the professor was trying to read too much into a story where nothing is meant to be read in. I do not feel like fairy tales are important and the day where I see real life societal impacts on the social roles of women based on a three hundred eighty-five year old medieval tale designed to en...

 My favorite folk tale is that of Vasilisa the beautiful, or  Василиса Прекрасная out of Alexander Afanasyev's collection of Russian tales,  Народные Русские Сказки . I liked hearing it when I was younger as when I was younger I enjoyed hearing things of mythology and Baba Yaga is in this tale so I thought it was cool, yet also somewhat understandable because the protagonist Vasilisa can be compared to Cinderella from more Western European traditions. I would be the Tsar that Vasilisa marries in the end of the story because he has no relevance to the plot whatsoever and he just kind of comes in at the end oblivious to her trials.