Three Little Pigs

When I was younger I looked at most fairy tales giving off very little meaning if any at all.  I would think that a classic story like Cinderella or Little Red Riding Hood were just story’s for entertainment.  Little did I know that there are multiple meanings on most fairytale story’s. Some that are better than others.

I will be taking a look into the fairy  tale Three Little Pigs, and show you what I think this fairy tale is really all about.  By this i mean what kind of message it could be sending to kids, by them not even knowing it.

The three objects themselves represent something. Straw is something that is worthless. And in the sense of making a house is not durable to what is coming the first pigs way. The second pigs that uses furze which is an evergreen with a fragrant of golden flowers().  And as the third pig uses a load of bricks, which is used to make buildings (a stronger form of housing) will help the third pig on what is to come.

Now the villain in the story is a Wolf, which is common for most fairy tales for example Little Red Riding Hood.  The wolf goes up to the first and second pigs and says something along these lines “little pig, little pig, let me come in. To which the pig answered: No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin. The wolf then answers then ill huff, and ill puff, and ill blow your house down”(SurLaLune.com). 

Keeping up to his world the wolf blows the pigs house’s down and eats them up.  But there is still a third pig standing. The pig with the house made of bricks.  When the wolf got through all the huffing and puffing he could he came to a conclusion that he was going to have to try something else.  So the wolf thought that if he could not get into the little pigs house he would have to try to get the little pig out so he could eat him.    

So the wolf starts naming off things that he though may be tempting for the third pig to come out, one of the temptations he used was going to the fair.  So he invited the pig to the fair, but the pig wasn’t that foolish.  He most certainly stayed in his home resisting all the temptations the wolf threw at him.                 

In the end the wolf trys to climb through the pigs chimney, and the pig is prepared for this.  The wolf ends up falling into the pot of boiling water above a nice fire the pig prepared.  So the pig eats up the wolf and lives happily ever after.

I think that this fairy tale sends a clear message, that says don’t let people you don’t know into your home cause if you do then they will hurt you.  Because in this fairy tale if you let the wolf into your home it will eat you no matter what.  This is something that I find disturbing to tell children.  Because the overall theme of this story is trust, and it is saying do not trust anyone.

In my opinion I think this could set your children on a dark path in their future.  This could allow them to have trust issues for the rest of their lives!  Just because their life could suddenly be over if they let a single person into their home.  If my mom told me this and I took it the wrong way, I probably would want to make friends with anybody.

Even though most trust issues come from past hurts, mostly from childhood (head-cleaners.com).  This may not seem like it could really have that big of effect on a person’s life but in a child’s mind this could scare them so much that they could be frightened for the rest of their lives.  This is how I think most fairy tale story’s are.  Just because the characters in the book might live happily ever after, doesn’t mean that it is reality.