tea berry-blue

I LOVE The Ordinary Princess. Love, love love! Although when I got older, I started to wonder if Perry had to be a prince for the story to work. In some ways, yes, because it's the point of proving that Amy can be as successful as her sisters while taking a different path, but the measure of success is still in who you marry, and it still has the message that the only acceptable person to marry is a prince (for a princess, at least-- and that like marries like, which has some class issues I don't like). On the other hand, it still works for me as a study in Shakespearean tropes-- you've got your girl-in-disguise, your comedy of mistaken identity, your like-marries-like even when they don't know it, your green world, your defying gender roles, and so on, and that means I can still enjoy it, because it definitely has that quality of parody to it.