* evil stepmother trope
* the mother figure takes away agency of female protagonist
* ending: Rapunzel is reconnected with her mother, the queen, who is simply an accessory of the king and plays no big role in the story

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"The problem with the Disney version of this [good mother/bad mother] binary is the exaggerated emphasis on the bad mother; we don’t ever get to see the good mother in the same kind of depth and we never get to see the whole mother integrated realistically.” [Fraustino, 2015]