Question

When Vasilisa askes her stepmother and stepsisters why they hate her so much, her stepmother responds.How could we hate you, my dear? Does a bear hate the beetle it crushes beneath its paws? What does she mean.

Answer 1

Shemeans that they are hurting Vasilisa unintentionally, such as a human might accidentally step on an ant, or a bear crushes a beetle. Of course we don't know that the ant is there, and the bear doesn't know the beetle is there either, so he wouldn't hate it. He just accidentally hurt it/killed it.

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