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Engl. 1302.500
August 29, 2015 Response to Bluebeard The story told about the man, Bluebeard, has a number of meaningful and significant things, but one significant thing that ties it all together is the youngest daughter. Bluebeard was attempting to gain the heart of one of the three sisters. The oldest two knew something was not right about that blue beard, the youngest, after being pampered, changes her mind from being frightened by him to thinking “his beard isn’t really all that blue.” The significance here is you should trust your instances, if something seems off, it probably is. The man, Bluebeard marries the youngest sister and she moves into his mansion. After Bluebeard leaves, the sisters find his secret, in a room, which the bride said she would not go into, filled with dead women. Upon Bluebeards arrival he finds his wife has betrayed him and now he must kill her too. She is saved by her brothers and Bluebeard is killed. The significance of all this is the youngest sister did not have the knowledge and experience that the older sisters had. As young, naïve women do, they want to see the best in people, like she did, despite his blue beard. Even today a lot of young girls want to trust everyone, it takes the experience and knowledge of the parents to try to teach their children about the dangers that the world has. It reminds me of when I was a kid my parents, like many parents, taught their children not to talk to strangers for they can kidnap you and hurt you. That is the beginning of parents teaching their children how cruel the real world can be. Your parents can not prepare you fully for the real world, there are many other ways another person can hurt you, emotionally and financially. When I was only 19, I decided I was old enough to be on my own, so I chose to leave California and move out to Texas, little did I know not talking to strangers wasn’t the only way to keep me safe. I let someone I thought was a good friend from work move in with me. I knew something was off about them and even after my family told me the same thing, I did not listen. I got my own experience from that event, I learned people can be cruel in other ways then kidnaping you and hurting you, to always trust your instinct, and to listen to the people in your life that have more experience than you. Reading the story Bluebeard reminded me of that event in my life and how at that point I was being the younger sister. The younger sister to me represents the young, innocent, naïve girl who with no life experience chooses not to trust her instance and has to pay for it, but though all that learns an important lesson.