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Many fairy tales are used to teach children lessons. “Little Red Riding Hood” provides a clear object lesson on why not to talk to strangers. However, fairy tales can be more subtle than that and teach less obvious (and violent) lessons. In “Beauty and the Beast”, by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, and “Little Thumbling”, by Charles Perrault, courage is one potential lesson that stands out. The title characters of both stories display courage through their actions, giving children an example to learn from. Of course, courage comes in more than one form, but the courage in these two stories shares many features. “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Thumbling” present courage as an important virtue that helps both courageous people and others by helping or protecting them.

Different versions of fairy tales are often created in order to adapt the elements and message of the story to the cultural values of a new audience. Andrew Lang’s version of “Jack and the Beanstalk” in The Red Fairy Book (1890) introduces a new aspect to the protagonist’s origins to justify Jack’s actions and alter the moral to encourage risk-taking and entrepreneurialism. This new moral resonates with the audience of post-industrial revolution 19th century Scotland and reflects the capitalistic and virtuous values that parents would want to instill into their children at the time.

The fairy tale helps the child to understand a balance between the good and the evil; it gives him a hope for a good future.” Fairy tales assure the

The Frog Prince begins telling how the princess very often spent her spare time at a well near her castle where she would play catch with her golden ball. One day while she was playing catch, she accidentally threw her golden ball into the well. As she cried about her golden ball a frog offered to help her as long as she made a promise, “but if you would love me, and have me for your companion and play-fellow, and let me sit by you at table, and eat from your plate, and drink from your cup, and sleep in your little bed- if you would promise all this, then would I dive below the water and fetch you your golden ball again.” (Grimm) Even the princess agreed, she left after the frog retrieved her golden ball for her. The day after meeting the frog, she sat, eating at her dinner table only to be interrupted by

The tradition of telling fairy tales to children effects not only the listener but also the reader. Maria Tatar, in her book Off with Their Heads!, analyzes how fairy tales instill and reaffirm cultural values and expectations in their audience . Tatar proposes that fairy tales fall into three different tale-types: cautionary tales, exemplary stories, and reward- and- punishment tales. These three types portray different character traits as desirable and undesirable. Due to the tale’s varying literary methods it can change the effectiveness of the tale’s pedagogical value. In Tatar’s opinion, all of these tales are similar in the way they attempt to use punishment, reward, and fear to encourage or discourage certain behaviors. In the cautionary fairy tale “The Virgin Mary’s Child”, the use of punishment and fear to discourage certain behaviors is enhanced by the Christian motifs and values employed by the tale. These literary devices encourage the audience to reflect on and internalize the lessons that are presented in the fairy tale.

There is nothing more precious and heartwarming than the innocence of a child. The majority of parents in society want to shield children from the bad in life which is appreciated. Within human nature exists desires of inappropriate behavior; envy, deceit, selfishness, revenge, violence, assault and murder. The most well-known fairy tales depict virtue and the evil in life. Even more important, the form and structure of fairy tales suggest images to the child by which he can structure his daydreams and with them give a better direction to his life. (Bettelheim).

Fairy tales, folk tales, and fables are commonly used as lessons for individual growth. In European tales, an emphasis is place on the importance of good behavior for the individual. The reader sees how negative behavior inhibits personal growth, while positive behavior improves it. Material wealth and riches are often the reward for good behavior, and there is a strict barrier that separates the social classes. In contrast, tales from Asia, the Middle East, and the Pacific have an overwhelming concentration on positivity for public good. A stronger focus is placed on how one can serve his or her community rather than how one can serve him or herself. Characters in these tales seek resolution through peaceful or neutral means, often to keep

The story of “The Frog King, or, Iron Henry” is ripe with symbols of class structure. In fact, the title alone targets two characters of differing classes. Iron Henry is the servant that grieves and worries for his friend, the bewitched frog/prince, “...faithful Henry had suffered such care and pain when his master was turned into a frog, that he had been obliged to wear three iron bands over his heart, to keep it from breaking with trouble and anxiety.” (Grimm). His character is symbolic of the working class, as illustrated by his kindness and humility. In contrast, the royal princess is very rude and selfish, abusing those she believes inferior to herself. This is demonstrated after the frog returns the princess' ball, and the princess immediately abandons him, “...for croak, croak after her as he might, she would not listen to him, but made haste home, and very soon forgot all about the poor frog,”

The princess and the frog has a big theme of love conquers all. This this shown because even when her prince was turned into a frog they were still able to show their love and appreciation for eachother. It also shows the theme of “it’s not what you want, it’s what you need’ this is often shown in disney movies, in this

Throughout childhood we grow up with fairytales, namely Disney and the ones our parents tell us. These tales often shape the lessons we learn, remember and reference throughout our lives. Older fairytales are much different than our modern day Disney and teach us different lessons. Disney is often the soft lesson. What I remember are things like be kind, courageous, stand up for what you believe, and fight the evil around you while falling in love with a prince. The old tales have a much harsher reality leaving lessons about the dangers of the world and evil which didn’t always lose. They are different, as the lessons parents needed their children to understand are different from culture to culture and time to time. As a young child I was highly shaped by Disney and as I got older and learned of another fairytale not all of them having a happy ending (like Hans Christian Andersons Little Mermaid when she gets turned to sea foam), taught me of the real world and

Fairy tales is an important aspect of growing up; because fairy tales teach children that good will always prevail evil, through various characters and magical creatures. Many fairly tales are written to develop certain role models for girls, which help them to acquire important traits. At the same time, it has been argued by many scholars and theorists that story lines of fairy tales assess women within a regressive and restricted moral character. The main objective of this essay is to demonstrate educational function of fairy tales and implied perfect female behaviour, while arguing that certain aspects of fairy tales’ morality may raise issue of sexism. This hypothesis will be checked based on “Snow White” fairy tale.

Fairy tales convey a series of core didactic messages, whilst simultaneously evolving to either affirm or subvert the ideas and discourse of their time. Little Red Riding Hood arguably remains the most popular and certainly most provocative tale in the Western world as each appropriation remains centered on gender identity, sexuality, violence and the civilising process, whilst the ongoing development of contextual values catalyse newfound approaches to each of these values. This notion is supported by Jack Zipes stating, “Literary fairy tales are socially symbolic… formed to take part in civilized discourses about morality and behaviour in particular societies and cultures. They are constantly rearranged and transformed to suit changes in

"Grimm's Fairytales," although never intended to be in text form, are some of the most influential methods in teaching young children morals and to be productive citizens of society. While children enjoy the mere esthetics of fairytales and interpret them at their face value, s are aware of the didacticism hidden beneath the appealing plots and characters of the stories. Unlike s, children would not be able to extract any metaphorical meaning out of fairytales even if fairytales were intended to have distinct messages. For this very reason, fairytales have been studied along with a branch of child psychology to determine whether or not a message that is ual is actually retained in the subconscious of

Fairy tales such as the Brothers Grimm version of “Little Red-Cap” provide a great deal of morals and values. The tale begins with a young, pretty girl that goes to take cake and wine to her ailing grandmother. Little Red- Cap was illicitly told by her mother to walk nice and quietly, not to run off the path or she might break the

Fairytales! These stories have such an impact on everyone, especially children. Each and everyone has grown up to reading or hearing fairy tales. Fairytales at first were written as adults entertainment and then slowly writers started rewriting the tales in which children learn basic life lessons while still being entertaining. Because of these fairy tales, most of us know the difference between good and bad. However, it can have different impact depending on how the child reads/hears it. For example, they can grow up to do the right things in life or the negative aspects of it. The way in which the author decides to display his/her purpose of their story can lead to readers, in this case, the children to think of morals that they come to believe in thorough the tale. It 's important to establish a moral understanding in children; who they will become as they grow up, what motivates them can all come from what they believe is right or wrong. That is why fairytales plays an important role, also not only that but parents/adults as well.