This is a post that I did for Classical Lit that I found relative to the Fairy Tales we have been 
discussing:
discussing:Hades and Prince Charming....
Are Hades and Prince Charming, alike? Or very different?Both 'abduct' their loves and take them off into the sunset. It can be argued that Hades did it against Persephone's will, and the Princess' that Prince Charming rescue want to be taken, but do they really? Because it is not possible for us to ask them, we must infer. For Cinderella, Rapunzel and even Sleeping Beauty, the Prince was rescuing them from a life of captivity and
slavery. Cinderella was forced to cook and clean for her evil step family, Rapunzel was kept captive in a castle, and Sleeping Beauty didn't want to marry the Prince, she was in love with someone she met 'once upon a dream' (although they were the same person, 
she didn't know that yet). But for Princess' like Belle, Snow White and Mulan, they were perfectly happy before they were taken. The Beast made her stay locked in his castle and didn't let her leave, the Prince was too late in rescuing Snow White, because the hunter had already done that, and was probably happy living with the dwarves. And Mulan didn't need to 
be rescued because she rescued him, which probably means she could rescue herself too. I'm beginning to think that Prince 
Charming isn't quite as magical as I once believed him to be, and I'm thinking that he maybe is more like Hades than we ever could have imagined as children!
Are Hades and Prince Charming, alike? Or very different?Both 'abduct' their loves and take them off into the sunset. It can be argued that Hades did it against Persephone's will, and the Princess' that Prince Charming rescue want to be taken, but do they really? Because it is not possible for us to ask them, we must infer. For Cinderella, Rapunzel and even Sleeping Beauty, the Prince was rescuing them from a life of captivity and
slavery. Cinderella was forced to cook and clean for her evil step family, Rapunzel was kept captive in a castle, and Sleeping Beauty didn't want to marry the Prince, she was in love with someone she met 'once upon a dream' (although they were the same person, she didn't know that yet). But for Princess' like Belle, Snow White and Mulan, they were perfectly happy before they were taken. The Beast made her stay locked in his castle and didn't let her leave, the Prince was too late in rescuing Snow White, because the hunter had already done that, and was probably happy living with the dwarves. And Mulan didn't need to be rescued because she rescued him, which probably means she could rescue herself too. I'm beginning to think that Prince Charming isn't quite as magical as I once believed him to be, and I'm thinking that he maybe is more like Hades than we ever could have imagined as children!
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