Fairy tales are magic mirrors: they show you what you wish to see. Fairy tales were composed to express eternal joys, sorrows, hopes, and dreams of human kind. These folk tales reflect the values, assumptions, and concerns of our cultural traditions. They always stated one moral - obedience, good manners, beauty, and hard work lead to rewards, while opposing characteristics are consistently punished.
Children have many questions that may be difficult to answer or discuss. The fairy tale provides the child with information about death, aging, and poverty and many other issues that the typical “safe” story would never even attempt to conquer. Fairy tales provide the child with a balance of morals and values that hopefully will help them to mature and solve problems of their own. The fairy tale simplifies the situation making everything either white or black, so that all of the elements and figures are clear. Three fairy-tales that provide good examples of these attributes are......
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