Breaking the Spell: Deconstructing the Fairy Tales and Isolating the Ideological Content Embedded Within

  • Reshma Salim

Abstract

If analysed from a critical perspective, we can say that all texts, especially fictional texts, are ideologically charged. It won't be obvious; it won't be explicit, but it will be tactfully embedded within the multiple folds of language. Sometimes, ideology will even appear transparent because we're bathed in it and therefore, we don't even see it. Fairy tales are no different. They are not innocent as they seem.This paper entitled Breaking the Spell: Deconstructing the Fairy Tales and Isolating the Ideological Content Embedded Within, seeks to unfold the hidden ideological content imbued within the seemingly innocent literary text like the Fairytales and also attempts to introduce the readers to some the modern re-telling of the classic fairy tales.

Published
2019-11-15
Section
Articles