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Kristin Hohenadel And Fairy Tales Endings: Death By Husband
The reader knows the story “Bluebeard” is a fairy tale. I see it as a tale of a serial killer given its content. It is the stark realism and no use of magic that makes it a story of interest to today’s readers. Kristin Hohenadel in the NY Times, “Fairy Tales Endings: Death by Husband” article informed the reader that Perrault’s bluebeard character was based in part on the life of Gilles de Rais. (Hohenadel, Kristin) Rais was found guilty of many things including Satanism, being a pedophile and a murderer. (Holloway, A.) In Breillat’s film of the fairy tale Bluebeard the viewer is shown a kinder, educated sole who loves his young wife. He does not force himself on her on their wedding night. To the viewer it seems that the young wife does not
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