Introduction: I have known about fairy tales since I was a little girl. I grew up watching all of the Disney movies. My dad would also read and tell my sister and me bedtime stories that were fairytales. When I was younger, I would dress up like princesses such as Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” and “Cinderella.” I have always loved fairy tales because they are magical and young girls like me looked up to the princesses and had crushes on the princes. I would love to know more about fairy tales and the authors who wrote them. Little girls even in 2013 grow up watching movies and learning about these princesses. Fairy tales influence our lives and our younger generations lives. After all, Disney world is full of princes and princesses from our favorite fairy tales. I believe we are writing these papers so we can gain more knowledge about stories. These stories have been around and will be around for a long, long time. Stories are important to us because they are passed on from generation to generation and they teach us morals. Each fairy tale, for the most part, has an important moral that teaches us all something. If we are told these stories when we are young, we can learn the morals early on in our lives. Stories impact us and our daily lives incredibly. We have an entire theme park, Disney World, dedicated to fairy tales, folktales, and fables. The Search: For the past month and a half, I have been doing a lot of research on fairy tales and have learned more than I ever thought I would. We were given three topics; fairy tales, folktales, and fables, and were asked to chose one of those three topics to research further. I chose fairy tales, and my thorough research on fairy tales began. Using the Encyclopedia Britannica Onl... ... middle of paper ... ...f Enchantment: The meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1976. Bottigheimer, Ruth B. “Fairy Tales and Fables.” Fables, Fairy Tales. Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society. Web. 19 January 2014. Internet database. Cinderella. Clyde Geronimi. Ilene Woods and Verna Felton. Walt Disney. 1950. DVD. Hamrick, Jon. “Fairytales, Fables, and Folktales.” Personal Interview. 3 Jan. 2014 Heiner, Heidi A. “SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Annotated Fairy Tales, Fairy Tale books and Illustrations.” SurLaLune Fairy Tales: Annotated Fairytales, Fairy Tale books and Illustrations. SurLaLune Tales. Web. 19 January 2014. Internet database. Redies, Sunje. “Return with New Complexities: Robert Coover’s Briar Rose.” Gale Student Resources in context. Detroit, Gale, 2007. Student Resources in context. Web. 20 December 2013. Internet database.
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Fairy tales connect to our owns lives, dreams, anxieties, and help us to consider what we would do in their shoes. Many cultures have their own spin on common fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty, with their own cultural flavor. We read those versions and know that we share something important and the hope for good to overcome evil.
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A fairytale is a fictional fantasy fable that passes through generations of children as source of interest to them. Though used for the intent of entertainment, fairytales often indirectly advocate a moral or message to readers (whom are usually children), in hopes that they will grow up to apply these ethics and lead a righteous life. This criteria, however, often originates from the occurrence of a magical transformation; it is this paranormality that introduces the characters of the story to a side of life far from what they have grown to know and learn to adapt to the dramatic amend in their life. This is evident in the characters in world-renowned tales such as The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast.
read through the article I had to pick out ten important facts about the fairy tale genre and its origins. Collecting my facts was difficult because there were many writers that changed the audience for fairy tales. I didn’t want to just write down 10 authors and their works t...
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While fairy tales are entertaining stories and can be used to educate children of the normal social manners of reality; however, it can be used to entertain and educate people of all ages. It can be used as a method of escaping the real world or to teach valuable life lessons than just the normal social mannerisms of society.
At first glance, what makes a fairy tale a fairy tale may seem obvious—some kind of magic, hidden symbols, repetition, and of course it’s evident it’s fiction—but fables are more than that. As Arthur Schelesinger puts it, it’s about “[expanding] imagination” and gaining understanding of mysterious places (618). While doing this, it also helps children to escape this world, yet teach a lesson that the reader may not be conscious of. A wonderful story that achieves all of this is Cinderella, but not the traditional tale many American’s have heard. Oochigeaskw, or The Rough-Faced Girl, and Ashputtle would be fitting for a seven-year-old because they get the gears of the mind turning, allowing for an escape on the surface, with an underlying enlightenment for children of the ways of the world.
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Fairy tales have been read to children for many years by parents hoping these tales of heroines and heroes would provide a fun and interesting way to teach moral and values. Fairy tales provide children with a fun and entertaining way to deal with strangers. Children learn that when you don’t follow the rule and talk to mysterious strangers you’re put into situation that can cause pain or suffering to others.
...of timelessness which is so essential to the fairy-tale genre of the Grimm Brothers, the fairy tale is able to relate to everyday life, not just the lives of the peasants in the 1800's. Today, we are still enchanted by the stories and so will generations to come.
I am writing this paper because I was assigned to write it as a class project. Along the way I realized the importance of sharing the real meanings of all these stories. Stories are important because in the society we live in things are constantly changing. Fairytales change but the base of the story always remain the same no matter how many times it has been retold. It’s important to reveal the true meanings of these stories, even with its dark characteristics, because the world is dark .Children need to know that there are people that have told stories relatable to what they are going through. Fairytales help the development of children; it helps their maturity as they confront someone else’s tough situations, instilling hope of a more positive ou...
“The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will continue to be, the teller of fairy tales. Whenever good counsel was at a premium, the fairy tale had it, and where the need was greatest, its aid was nearest. This need was created by myth. The fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest.”(Walter Benjamin). For generations fairy tales have brought happiness to hundreds of people. Through childhood to adults, people still enjoy the mysteries of fairytales. In society, fairytales are a great way of connecting
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Normally, when one was a child, our parents would tell us fairy tales as bed time stories, or to simply entertain us. This is a worldwide tradition in which every parent tells their child the stories they were told when they were little, or new stories. There are infinite stories to be told as well as infinite stories that have already been written or told. The stories told by our parents have influenced us and still influence us in our beliefs and values today. Throughout our childhood, we have been told many stories that teach us to be brave and courageous, respect others, love ourselves and others, to obey orders, and even to help and