Critical literacy ll Week 3

 Text title: Black Thorn, White Rose (chapter 1)

Text type: Novel

Text Creator: Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling

Text purpose: Sleeping beauty rewritten, to read.

Date: 18/02/21

Whose views are excluded or privileged in the text? 

In the first chapter, we read about a peasant woman who is imprisoned in a castle, and has to spindle straw into gold or die. When the Prince comes to tell her of what she has to do, her response falls into deaf ears. 

“.... I cannot spin straw into gold. No mortal could “. He only smiled, for of course he was not mortal. 

This is an example of the woman’s opinions and thoughts being ignored. 

With some help, the woman is able to spin straw into gold and instead of death, she is forced to marry the prince. She is against this but her opinions again fall into deaf ears. An example of this is: 

Three men came to hold me down. A woman forced a liquid, warm and tasting of pungent herbs, down my throat. 

This had happened when she spoke against the prince and fought against the prince. The woman's opinions obviously didn’t matter to the prince and no matter how hard she had tried, she would have to do things against her own will. 

The prince had most probably been raised to get whatever he wanted, however he wanted. And being the prince, made his views and thoughts the most privileged. The woman was a peasant so compared to the prince, her worlds held no power.