Rapunzel comic strip

This cartoon of Rapunzel shows her and the prince in the castle. Rapunzel's hair is flowing out of the window and she has two children, a boy and a girl, climbing up her hair. Rapunzel is telling the prince “it was romantic before we had kids. Build some stairs. '' This is more of a comparison to the original tale, since she gave birth to twins and there are children in the cartoon. The symbolism of the hair is that many times, women are seen as beautiful. If a woman has short hair, she is seen as not as beautiful and as rebellious to the patriarchal society. The prince in the Grimm’s version of the tale at first only heard Rapunzel singing and he fell in love with her. He wasn’t sure how to get up the tower so he waited and saw the witch calling out to Rapunzel to let her hair down. From there he was able to do the same and climb up. The comic strip is making fun of it because every night the prince would visit Rapunzel which would be them “dating”. But now that they have children and there’s no way up the tower, the children have to climb her hair. 

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https://www.webdonuts.com/2011/02/fairy-tale/
Artist: Gruhn

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