When the prince hears her song, we're told, "It was Rapunzel, who passed the time in her solitude by letting her sweet voice resound in the forest." So she has a hobby: singing. Turning away from the world basically meant choosing to be more holy…and it doesn't seem like Rapunzel got that choice. Nowadays, if you're grounded, you can just jump into cyberspace and chat it up with your friends, but in early modern Europe, people only locked themselves away from society if they were like, monks or hermits or nuns-a.k.a. We mean, we're talking about the days before the Internet. Why does Rapunzel flip out on her adoptive mom? It might have something to do with how the sorceress cut her off from the world entirely. After all, didn't she raise Rapunzel with better values? Didn't she try to protect her from the wicked world by putting her in that tower? Yeah, you try to tell a teenager that something is for her own good. When the sorceress finds out about their tryst, she is understandably ticked off. So it's no big surprise that our dear Rapunzel ends up, um, a tad fickle and jumps the bones of the first guy she meets (who, luckily, turns out to be a prince). Having zero social contact outside the tower probably isn't helping, either (and this was in the days before Facebook). If your parents sold you to a sorceress for a handful of lettuce, you'd have issues too.
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