Fairy Tales Essay

The Original Tales That No Kid Will Ever Know Little girls these days love reading fairy tales and listening to princess stories everywhere they go. Some girls even think they are a princess themselves; others just like to dream. In reality, the fairy tales we think we know by heart in the 21st century are not the tales originally written. The fairy tale stories that Disney has recreated for young audiences leaves out many of the original graphic and gruesome details.
When people think of fairy tales, they often think of the benevolent bedtime stories from the Disney princess movies or maybe even nursery rhymes from Mother Goose. Therefore if a tale is told by a fairy, it is assumed it will have a happy ending. The idea of a malevolent

The child appropriate stories have lost their original meaning as they were originally morality tales or lessons for children about the realities of a dangerous world. When in High school, once students read the original, more sophisticated tales rather than the child appropriate version, they realize many of these stories are weird, cruel and gruesome. One person from his perspective “had taken it for granted that everyone loved and respected fairy tales as much as I did, and I could not understand why anyone should take a stand against them.” (Gág 1). Therefore he is disappointed to learn the reason these fairy tales are inappropriate for young children and would have a reason to be

One of those copies is at the British Museum in London. P. L. Travers, author of the Mary Poppins series recalls wanting to own a copy of the original translated book, but she felt she had to earn it. When she wrote her story about how much she wanted it, she began by explaining “If you want a thing badly enough, the fairy tales tell us, you are quite certain to get it. That is--and of course there is a catch in it--if you want it to the point of being willing to work for it, to pay the cost in whatever coin is necessary--love, courage, sacrifice, money. The publication of the new complete Grimm 's [The Complete Grimm 's Fairy Tales] is a case in point. I wanted that book from the time when I was first able to read. I have sought it high and wide. Selections never satisfied me, nor the bowdlerized, squeamish versions. I wanted it whole and complete, the very thing in itself. At last, after much searching (and much growing up in the process), I discovered it in the British Museum. Later I reread it in the New York Public Library, taking down laborious notes from the little niggling print. Then one day, as I went up the steps to ask for it again, it occurred to me that I had served my wish well and now deserved a copy of my own. So I wrote an article into the air, to anyone it might concern, suggesting that the