Princess in red shoe: the messages that we encountered in the studied fairy tales

Stepsisters – Princess in red shoes: competition or selective pressure
In addition to maternal social assistance in the success of the marriage scenario, turns out to be important competitive pressure stepsisters of Cinderella. He is present in the versions by Perrault and the brothers Grimm and not only trying to prevent the heroine to the matrimonial selection, but subsequently to "kidnap" her lover. It is a kind of selective pressure can spur not only the development of biological and evolutionary biologists this is called the "red Queen effect", but also the social script. Notable history of the term: it is derived from the instructions of the red Queen from Alice of "Alice in Wonderland": she said that in order to stay in its place, you need to run, but to be in another – you must run twice as fast. Here in a striking way, we see the presence of red – the color of fertility and social activity, and guidance of older women, and even the requirement... run as fast as possible. These are the same outlines of the messages that we encountered in the studied fairy tales.

For Karen from tales of Andersen has not the competition, not emulate, there is a tangled connection with the object of identification or rivalry. This little Princess that she sees in the window of the Palace: neither the crown nor plume, but her feet wearing a wonderful red Morocco shoes, absolutely not comparable to those made for Karen bashmachnik, and who took an elderly lady. This image becomes the little girl's fetish, and there's nothing better for her. Here becomes evident the disparity of its claims first, focusing only on the sign of the status, and secondly, however, the sign is aesthetically perfect, and this is also important, thirdly. If the first red shoes in the girl's life were the only, and the other she didn't have a second red Slippers belonged to the Princess and become the aesthetic ideal for girls that are unavailable, but clearly desirable.