He lists three categories of defining culture: the ‘ideal’, the ‘documentary’, and the ‘social’. The Welsh, sociolist, academic theorist, Raymond Williams, details his thoughts on culture in The Long Revolution (1961). Therefore, it is important to understand the fundamental workings of culture, and how media, like folk-tales, can affect people. In the introduction of Selected Folktales/Ausgewählte Märchen: A Dual-Language Book, Stanley Appelbaum, the editor and translator of the text, specifies that “it has inspired retellings and adaptations in all public media and it has become an integral part of the childhood experience of millions”. There is no doubt that the Kinder- und Hausmärchen had a profound cultural effect on the world. It is valuable to begin by discussing why it is important to analyze “Rapunzel” and other folk-tales with regards to feminism. The focus is particularly on the function of the tale within a feminist framework, and how it perpetuates conservative gender-representations, misogyny, and other problematic ideologies. With specific attention to the Brothers Grimm iteration from their seventh version of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen. The aim of this essay is to deconstruct the classic folk-tale “Rapunzel/Rampion”
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