Analysis Of The Frog Prince

Lastly, The Frog Prince like many other fairy tales uses personification upon animals, in this case the frog to solidify a gap between reality and fiction. Personification of the frog enables the author to incorporate many ideological frameworks that would be uncomfortable for readers if this were not fictional literature. Another important element of this fairy tale is illustrated by the predominance of transactional relationships specifically regarding royalty. The frog uses his leverage, the child’s desires for her golden ball to permit him into the castle. Furthermore, exploring how the institution of marriage, specifically for royalty and the nobility is fundamentally based around political, social and economic relationships. Often love

was a foreign concept to royalty and the nobility because society emphasized on the value of social relationship and affluence over sentimentality. For example, the only reference to the concept of love transpires towards the end of fairy tale and illustrates their love to be grounded on the mere fact that the frog, who initially was slimy, and grotesque transforms into a beautiful and prosperous young prince; therefore the prince has transcended his status in society because he was able to rid himself of his curse and marry the beautiful young princess. Therefore, by using a frog as one of the major characters that eventually gets the girl and is later transformed back to his normal stature after the malicious witch cursed him perhaps utilizes such a disgusting and unpleasant character to mock the institution of marriage, especially with regards to the royals, and nobility because of their superficial values, such as wealth, social recognition and vanity. The Frog Prince depicts the frog in a grotesque manner to highlight the many flaws throughout the late 18th century extending into the 20th century, by disguising the social relevance into a fantastical mode of literature that bridges a gap between reality and fiction.