Fairy Tales And A Dose Of Reality Summary

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In “Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality,” Catherine Orenstein discusses what television has turned the modern fairy tale into, reality television, and how ordinary viewers can play a part into this new romance. However, she continues to relate modern situations to the stereotypical fairy tale, and how they are both based historically accurate situations, but twisted into something more beautiful. She uses the example of Sleeping Beauty; in the original story she is not awakened by a kiss. She is impregnated by a prince and left in the woods, and then later the prince's’ mother tries to eat her. Orenstein goes on to explain how much our expectation of love and marriage has changed in three centuries -- because historically marriage was a financial

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