Blog 9: Bluebeard

Bluebeard was certainly an interesting if not grizzly fairy tale. I mean it had serial killer, bloody bodies, bloody key, plus an arranged marriage between a girl that couldn't have been older than 13 or 14, to a man (Bluebeard) who I swear had to be  over half a century years old. but My favorite tale that we read was probably the first one "BlueBeard" by Charles Perrault.
 Yes this tale was grizzly, but I ended up laughing throughout the story, I definitey shouldn't have been; there was gore and attempted murder, but I couldn't help it. The first quote that got me was "The two girls couldn't bring themselves to marry a man with a bluebeard." I know blue beards weren't in style back then but, still I couldn't help but laugh thinking; rockstars, anime fans and other people nowadays dye their hair blue, why not their beards? Also what truly truly made me laugh the hardest was when Bluebeard gave her the keys particularly the key to the forbidden room and said, "You are strictly forbidden from ever going into that room."

Moron, Why in heavens name would you give her the key to a room you don't want her to go in? It's exactly like in those cartoons where the evil genius has a big, red "self destruct" button on the killer robot, that says "don't press." It always fails because people are going to press it. Just like the wife was going to go into that room. One thing I want to know is , was Bluebeard truly upset about that room bieng seen, or did he truly want her to go into that room?

Did he even want a "living" wife?  What about the first wife that was finished off? There were no bodies before her (hopefully) did he just have a fight with her, kill her and then fail to properly dispose of the body? And from there possibly have the second or third wife accidently stumble into the room, only to kill them off? What wife did he actually give the key to? Did he plan to kill all his wives from the start? Or did it just become easiest to kill them after a while rather than explaining to them. I almost feel sorry for the old creeper, maybe he killed them because he knew they'd never accept him. I mean they didn't want to marry him soley due to his blue beard. I highly doubt they'd be willing to overlook a couple of dead bodies if they can't handle a blue beard. But at the same time couldn't he have just, shaved the beard off? Was it an enchanted beard? Killing was just cruel, he gave them the key to the room, that's like putting a sword into an executioner's hand and punishing him for chopping someone's head off. I guess only Bluebeard himself will know.