Posted by happyflower on October 7, 2007, at 22:26:10
In reply to Re: What is the silver lining...**trigger** » rskontos, posted by Phillipa on October 7, 2007, at 21:27:07
Hey Phillipa,
You would not be alone in reading fairy tales at an older age, in fact the tales were orginally written for adults, not for children.
It seem that fairy tales are getting a lot of academia attention lately. There is so much to them than just a nice story. They are folk tales passed on from generation to generation. A lot of countries have their own version of Snow White, it may be called something else but the story is very simular. This is the book we are using for our writings. http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Fairy-Norton-Critical-Editions/dp/0393972771/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-3807230-7070056?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191813611&sr=8-1
I think that is a link for it. But it talks a lot about what I have been saying in the above posts. I have read her other book this week to The Hard Facts of Fairytales. The folk stories were thought to be actual real stories, but embellished. Even the Grimm brothers changed the vocal tales they heard to fit their moral and relgious beliefs. For instance, orginally in the story of Snow White, it was the mother who was the evil one, but one of the Grimm brothers changed it to a stepmother. He thought the tale would be better suited that way.
I guess this class has even me looking at other fairytales and trying to read into the real meaning.
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