Did you know in the original version of The Little Mermaid, when the central character gets her legs, every step she takes feels as though she is walking on knives? And instead of marrying the prince at the end, she dies and turns into seafoam? Classic children’s fairy tales are full of a kind of morbidity that would have no place in today’s helicopter parent society. Whether it’s the golden slipper cutting off the toe of an ugly stepsister in Cinderella or the evil queen being forced to dance to death in Snow White, these stories weren’t afraid to terrify children with gruesome imagery.
A Rose in the Twilight would fit right in with those fables.
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