They all begin with usual 'Once Upon a time' and ends with 'and they lived happily ever after'. I believe .. In fact I know there is a lot beyond this. There is a lot to understand before it starts and lot more to see before the narrator ends it.
Why was Cinderella the way she was? Why the Evil Queen in Snow White had the desperation to be the most beautiful lady in the world? What kind of life beast used to live before he turned into the beast? Do you really think princess had a 'no issues' life with the frog turned into a prince, did he carried frog habbits? What happened to black swan after the happily ever after of the lake princess and prince? Or Did Rapunzel really like being a princess or she missed her long hair and the tower later in life; did she proved to be a worthy princess?
No matter how new or old the story is, good or bad, Its just a point of view of the narrator. He starts from what he knows, and tells the part till he knows. We never really get to know all of it. Am not even sure if we can know all of it. All we can do is to create our own versions of the 'rest of it'.
We read Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother was later rescued by a saintly lumberjack. I say, may be he was 'not so saintly' Rumpelstiltskin roaming in the jungles after he failed to claim the first born child of the Queen who was none other than Step Sister of Cinderella married to frog prince. Who knows?
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This reminds me of a quote from Sex and the City :
Miranda: I just realized; maybe it's maturity or the wisdom that comes with age, but the witch in Hansel and Gretel, she's very misunderstood. I mean, the woman builds her dream house, and these brats come along, and start eating it.
:P
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