What is a fairy tale?
As long as people recorded their history, they told stories. On days when people did not know almost as much about the world as they do now, they invented myths or legends to explain the events. The fairy tale was born from these stories.
children and adults love a good fairy tale. In the archetypal fairy tale, good victory over evil, they are badly punished, good prosperous. The hero and heroine must pass the rehearsals to win, and usually magical and magical creatures appear, but in the end the protagonist is victory. Magic is generally deus ex machina that saves the day.
The fairy tale can exist in several versions. One of the good examples is a small red horse ride. One version is a strictly warning story. Red Riding Hood doesn't listen to his mother, talking to the wolf and finally eating him. So end all the bad children. Another version of the story, however, is Red Riding Hood, which chases a wolf, which catch its hood, which, when she was enchanted by her grandmother, burns her mouth. He goes his head to the village and UtoPi. Some versions have a wolf that eats a grandmother, but is killed by a hunter who cuts the wolf open and saves his grandmother.
The fairy tale can also be often disinfected so that it does not scare children. Sleeping Beauty in her original form had the Prince's mother occupied as Ogress, who eventually tried to sleep beauty and her children killed them so that Ogress could eat them. The Disney version has a terrible maleficent, but once it is defeated and Aurora woke up with the fateful kiss, everything is forever and ever. They all live "happily to the end". The Disney version Sleeping Beauty is approaching the original, but many parents considered it too scary for their children.
The fairy tale is an important component in children's literature. Many modern themes in movies and television are derived from a fairy tale, in the motif, not if in the plot. Modern people often use Cinderella as an example of any person or groups withBad prospects, which were managed despite the chances. "Prince Charming" is the Beau-Ideal of Manlination. The film series Shrek is likely to do as much as any modern media in the dirt genre of the fairy tale, but the jokes are much more fun when the viewer is familiar with the original stories. Nevertheless, the fairy tale is an ideal medium in which children can perform their imagination.
The complete collection of the most common fairy tales can be found online at classicreader.com. There are books of fairies assembled and edited by literary critic Andrew Lang. He compiled these books in the second half of the 19th century and his books need to read for every fan of fairy tales from all over the world.