joberg
Legendary Member
Nah...Yeah; a great many of the "fairy tales" actually involve much crud like that. Nice bedtime stories to scare the living daylights out of your little ones and guarantee they'll need therapy and counselling for decades to come.
Pleasant dreams...
The genre of fairy tales spans the ages on a variety of subjects/stories captivating a variety of audiences. This particular genre asserts a lesson and an escaped reality. Fairy tales even exist in modern times also and re-appear in existing and novel ways.
Both traditional/modern fairy tales have an extremely important societal role/expectations, disturbances in human desires, and the ideals/behaviors of individuals, regardless of age.
Their themes, settings, characters and plots promote relevant expectations and ideals society expects individuals to maintain throughout their lifes.
But, more importantly; the innate attraction that readers have toward these works and what that says about humanity!
These fairy tales are prominent across various medium (film, text, life-size attractions) affirming their impactful power on the actions and thoughts of individuals and the important themes of society. (From the University of Arizona).
The fairy tale is therefore a Universal human genre across the ages/continents/races.