What is it?
The Princess and the Pea
Who wrote it?
James Finn Garner
Where can it be
found?
in: Once Upon a More Enlightened Time: More politically
Correct Bedtime Stories
Adaptation?
Yes! Of the ‘politically correct’ variety.
My thoughts in
exactly 10 words:
‘PC’ to the extreme unearths the flaws in this story.
Extended thoughts:
Having fun last week pondering the crux of the story The
Princess and the Pea, this week I thought I’d read the PC version. (I don’t
know why I haven’t read this earlier? It was published in 1995 and has been on
my shelf for years!). It was so funny! Not only did it point out the unspoken flaws
in the original story that are taken for granted or unknown by the general
reader (The classist nature of the hunt for a wife, the haemophiliac consequences
of interbreeding, the Oedipal motivations of the queen) it does so in such a satiric
and funny way! I’m now going to make time this weekend to read the rest of
these stories!
Favourite Quote:
Do I have to pick just one??
“Perhaps I should widen my scope a bit,” he mused.
“What? And throw out your standards?”
“No, Mummy, perhaps I’ve fallen into a trap of the orthodox heterosexualist majority. Maybe there is a fine young prince out there for me. It’s at least worth a try.”
“What? And throw out your standards?”
“No, Mummy, perhaps I’ve fallen into a trap of the orthodox heterosexualist majority. Maybe there is a fine young prince out there for me. It’s at least worth a try.”
Moral of the story in
my own words:
One mustn’t judge prospective partners on such strict criteria.
You may fall in love with the unexpected.
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