Puss N Boots

Perrault’s fairytale “Master Cat, or Puss in Boots” deals with the initial difficulty of a young boy who meets his independence for the first time when his father, a poor Miller, dies. The only estate that is left to him is a cat. Through the cat’s action, the boy is brought through to the transformation of the hero. In Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Grethel”, two orphan children are left on a quest for survival because their father and stepmother abandoned them in the forest. Together both children, through their survival strategies, transform into the heroes of the story. The social roles that constrain both the young boy and Hansel and Grethel are Family, Class and child-like state of being. Moreover, the social roles that connect the young boy to Hansel and Grethel posit a value in establishing the thematic meaning of coming of age within the short stories.
CLASS
The young boy in “Master Cat” is trapped and defined by his lower-class socioeconomic status. ...