Just a little literary deconstruction:

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On "The Frog Prince"

The Prince: A spoiled, arrogant royal brat who humiliates an old woman in public, because she is old, and a woman with a hunched back and arthritic hands, and because he has the power to do so (unfortunately for him, she's also a witch).

The Princess: Also a spoiled, arrogant royal brat, who (once she she's told that she can't use her royal status to slip out of a promise), throws a temper tantrum a two-year old would be proud of, and (I quote):

She picked up the frog with two fingers, carried him to her room, and climbed into bed, but instead of laying him next to herself, she threw him bang! against the wall.*

And it was only after he landed in her bed, and regained his human form,** and she realized he was wealthy and powerful, that she decided she loved him.

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The only thing remotely romantic or hopeful about this story is that once they married each other, they spared anyone else from that same fate.

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*Grimms' 1812 version, translated by D. L. Ashlimann, Professor of German, University of Pittsburg (retired).

**That demur kiss on the cheek was an example of Victorian tidiness. The thing that Frog!Prince really needed to do to break the spell was get into bed with the Princess, whether she wanted him there or not.