Fairy tales are stories that feature magical elements like people transforming into animals or objects becoming enchanted. While sometimes seen as children's stories, fairy tales were originally told among adults for entertainment and to help people escape their routines. Fairy tales also serve to civilize and teach good behavior while exploring deeper questions about human nature and beliefs in an easy-to-understand format.
Fairy tales are stories that feature magical elements like people transforming into animals or objects becoming enchanted. While sometimes seen as children's stories, fairy tales were originally told among adults for entertainment and to help people escape their routines. Fairy tales also serve to civilize and teach good behavior while exploring deeper questions about human nature and beliefs in an easy-to-understand format.
Fairy tales are stories that feature magical elements like people transforming into animals or objects becoming enchanted. While sometimes seen as children's stories, fairy tales were originally told among adults for entertainment and to help people escape their routines. Fairy tales also serve to civilize and teach good behavior while exploring deeper questions about human nature and beliefs in an easy-to-understand format.
- Definition: + Fairy tales are stories that have magical people and creatures in them. + Things happen in fairy tales that can’t happen in ordinary life. - purpose of fairy tales: + Fairy tales cause a sense of wonder in the reader or listener. + For entertainment: people played music, they talked, they told each other stories. - During the late 1800s: Fairy tales helped people escape from the routine in their lives. - Another purpose: civilizing people (means that educating people about good behavior). - In conclude: Fairy tales are very deep (stories about who we are and what we believe in).
Ex 3: all of the time.
Ex 4: 1. People change into animals(a boy becomes a bird). A princess may sleep for a hundred years. Objects can be enchanted (mirrors talk, pumpkins become mcarriages, and a genie lives in a lamp). 2. Some people assume that fairy tales were created for children, but this is not true; fairy tales are stories that adults told other adults. 3. The purposes are: 1) they help people wonder about the workings of the universe; 2) they entertained people and helped people escape from the routine of their lives; 3) they civilize people by teaching them how to be good citizens. 4. Fairy tales are actually very deep. They are stories about who we are and how we believe, but they come in the form of entertainment, so they are easy to understand.