Verdi with Rigoletto wrote an opera and Perrault
with Griselidis created a story where the heroine
suffers unnecessarily due to idiotic protagonists,
one way to save my sanity is to compare these
with Turandot by Puccini, the wonderful Chinese
Princess with her frozen heart, if she were forced
To be virtuous as Gilda was by her dad Rigoletto
who kept her locked up in sad solitude - and as
Griselidis who suffered so much at the hand of
the mad suspicious Prince she married, but yet
was so loving & steadfast her name was praised,
during his mean tests of her faithfulness - she
Would have suffered too, but Princess Turandot
lives happily by having suitors who want to marry
her killed; this is rational behavior as the dutiful
Gilda died for love of a satanic Duke - as he was
the first man she ever met & could not recognize
evil in people; Griselidis was a quiet shepherdess
Who should have refused to marry the evil Prince,
ONLY Turandot meets a Prince Calaf who is willing
to die for her - after she had beheaded a thousand
men - that is the only way to go, let all women take
note and say NO to the Fickle Fools & Blue-Beard
Beasts who want to marry them: have them killed
Only marry a Prince who proves he's willing to die
for you, otherwise you might become the victim of
jealous, egoistic, narcissistic, selfish, wicked men!
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1.Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi - Italian opera -
[Rigoletto]
2.Charles Perrault - French poet, prose writer and
storyteller [Tales of Mother Goose - Griselidis]
3.Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria
Puccini - Italian opera - [Turandot]
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