Female CuriosityCuriosity is often defined as a strong desire to know or learn something. Being filled with curiosity is one of the most amazing feelings. Find something that interests you and want to know everything about it. Being curious is such a powerful thing, always wanting to see more, hear more, do more, be more. It makes people who they are, if someone is not very curious they can be very boring because they know what they know and they are content with that. It is the naturally curious people who get the most out of life, because they are always looking for something more, something bigger and brighter, and often they find it. But, in some situations, being too curious can take you to a place you didn't plan to be and a place you don't want to be. This is seen through certain literary works, for example the tale “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault. Throughout the ages, this story has been labeled as a story about the negative effects of female curiosity. Bluebeard's wife in the story receives the key to a locked door in their house from her husband. She is told not to enter this specific room, but overwhelmed by curiosity, she does it anyway. Another work, actually a film, The Piano directed by Jane Campion, is an adaptation of “Bluebeard” and makes very distinct references to it. The piano also evokes themes of female curiosity through the main character Ada McGrath. Ada is married to a man named Alistair whom she has never met. She begins having an affair with another man, named George Baines, under unusual circumstances. Her husband finds out and naturally blames it on his “feminine curiosity” and begins to punish her. His punishment is similar to that of pu...... middle of paper ......5-101. JSTOR. Web April 11, 2014. Barzilai, Shuli. “Bluebeard Syndrome in Atwood's Lady Oracle: Fear of Femininity” Marvels and Tales 19.2 (2005): 249-273. JSTOR. Web April 11, 2014Butler, Pierce. Woman in medieval France. Flight. 2 1907. ebook. Web April 10, 2014Chevalier, Christine. “Ada's Piano in Jane Campion's “The Piano”: Distinguished Achievement or Romantic Self-Expression? » Australian Feminist Studies 21.49 (2006): 23-34. Premier Academic Research. Web, April 10, 2014 McCombs, Judith. “In Search of Bluebeard's Rooms: Grimm, Gothic, and Biblical Mysteries in Alice Munro's “A Good Wife's Love”” American Journal of Canadian Studies 30.3 (2000): 327-22. Premier Academic Research. Web April 11, 2014 Perrault, Charles. “Bluebeard”. The Book of the Blue Fairy. New York: Dover 1965The Piano. dir. Jeanne Campion. Miramax Movies, 1993. Streaming Netflix