Thumbelina: Negative Stereotypes that Society has Developed to Individuals

Society creates fairy tales and tells people to have specific ethics and values. The fairy tale is in particular Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina. Thumbelina is a story about a little girl being underestimated for its size. But Thumbelina has exceeded the expectations of the people I met in fairy tales. But this fairy tale is full of negative stereotypes about social prejudice and specific personal development. The idea that people often classify others and use demographics often to predict their likely behavior is the reason for people being excluded (Jennifer A.

Every society has a stereotype. One way that people in different societies attempt to tolerate differences is to generalize the classification of individuals into groups (Keefe, Marshall, and Robeson, 2003). Some of these stereotypes are negative and others are positive. All stereotypes contribute to cultures of prejudice that can be conveyed to families, communities, and even toddlers through words and actions (Derman-Sparks, 2001). The stereotype of gender is particularly important. That is because the concept of gender identity can also apply to prenatal children. Children begin to develop the concept of gender around 2 years of age, and most children know boys or girls when they are 3 years old (Martin & Ruble, 2004).

Society creates fairy tales and tells people to have specific ethics and values. The fairy tale is in particular Hans Christian Anderson's Thumbelina. Thumbelina is a story about a little girl being underestimated for its size. But Thumbelina has exceeded the expectations of the people I met in fairy tales. But this fairy tale is full of negative stereotypes about social prejudice and specific personal development. - Thumbelina is a fairy tale of Danish origin, created by Hans Christian Andersen and published in 1835 with its original name "Tommelise". The name of Thumbelina was originally used by H. W. Dulcken was created in 1864. The story is evolving around similar little girls adventuring as thin men to face problems surrounding her. Her name is Thumbelina, but it is compatible as it is called Tiny.

Separation from loved ones is a common problem in many fairy tales. Usually, the heroine is separated from her lover, her parents or the world she grew up. This is the case of a fairy tale "thumbnail". Thumbelina was taken away from her house and wandered for a couple of months in a strange outside world. Finally, she met the rat, Thumbelina married the mole and arranged it to live underground for the rest of his life. Thumbelina is suffering from "I know that I will never see the sun and the flowers after marriage to a mole and I can not hear the chirping of birds" (Eisen, 301-302). In a fairy tale "Rapunzel", long-haired girls experienced two separation anxieties in her life. First, she suffers from separation anxiety from other parts of society, and suffers from her lover. Rapunzel was locked by a witch in the deep tower of the forest isolated from human contact. Rapunzel betrayed the witch and allowed the young prince to enter the tower. I feel that she is away from other countries.