What Happened to Happily Ever After?
It seems that nowadays, there is a lack of the “Happily Ever After” ending in many narratives throughout media. From television, to film, to literature, there is no shortage of the dystopian narrative, but going further than that, there seems to be a general lack of the happily ever after trope in the current media. But why is that? Is the generation of creators so scarred from the societal pressures and issues that have arisen in the past thirty years? Have the wars, terrorism, and economic downfalls hit the new creators so hard? Is the future so bleak one cannot imagine there being a way for it to end happily? Is there a way to get these happily ever afters back? And if so, do we really want them? Throughout this post, I am going to be exploring these very questions, to varying degrees, and hopefully adding to ideas you may already foster. Okay, so let’s start with the actual trope. Everyone knows the classic Disney-like ending that a lot of the chick-flick type of me...