behind the fairy-tales

In many of the fairly-tales, such as that of Cinderella, Snow White and such, certain traits of the main female characters seem to repeat themselves. As many of us can notice, they are always beautiful, weak and too nice to fight her enemies back. And as many of the feminist critics would find it unpleasant, they are always bound to be saved by men.
Women’s beauty and her submissive personality have been portrayed as something positive so much so that it could literally transform a person’s life. Women’s physical beauty on the outside seemed to be matched up with her inside “beauty”-powerless against her enemies- and such a woman only deserves to be saved from someone wonderful as the prince, according to the apparent themes of those stories. The idea of women’s beauty has been defined in such a way that the notion of women’s beauty often devalues the strength and the idea of independence of women. Women’s psychological as well as physical fragility calls upon men’s instinct to protect what's "inferior” to him, and thus, this particular idea fits well to that of the masculinity. As Cinderella and Snow White end up owing their happiness to the princes as they are being saved by them, it seems that the definition of women’s happiness wouldn’t be complete without men’s presence in it. Though these stories are often viewed as simply sweet fairy tales for the children, the stereotypical notion of women’s beauty, both physical and psychological, lay deep within them, and implies yet another form of male domination in the society.