Once upon a time, when an individual states these words you automatically go into a world of fairytale with wizards, goblins, trolls talking objects, princess, prince, and many more imaginable characteristics. However, what exactly is a fairytale, what makes a fairytale a fairytale, and how do fairytales contribute to our everyday lives. A fairytale can be defined as many things. In different countries, there is many version of fairytales all over the world. A fairytale can be defined as narratives of magic and fantasy understood as fiction. The word fairytale comes from a French writer named Madam D Aulnoy. That had a collection of fairytales called Conte-de -fee in the 17th century.
In order, for a fairytale to be a fairytale there are distinctive elements that are needed in a fairytale. One of which is a lack of description of the fairytales. There are very few details in the stories we never know where the fairy tales take place, the date, and the environment of the fairy tale. In “Once upon a time on the Nature of Fairy Tales” it references a variance of popular fairytales of various countries around the world all with little to no details in the fairy tales. Another trait that all fairytales must have is magic. In all fairytales, there is a magical creature that points the way to the right path to heroic characters. Snow white allows creatures to lead her to a path that she doesn’t have any knowledge about. She just trusts them to lead her on the correct path without any caution. However, we know that if an animal would lead you anywhere it would be to your death.
Fairy Tales are all around us we live and breathe fairytales. We want our lives to be exactly like a fairytale. We want the prince to carries us up to his enormous castle and showers us with gold and luxuries that we have never seen. With every encounter that we make with the opposite gender, we compare them with that of a prince, and princes. In essence, fairytales can be defined as many things but to me, a fairytale is a fictional narrative that contains magic with a lack of description that is easily persuasive.
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Lüthi Max. Once upon a Time: on the Nature of Fairy Tales. Indiana University Press, 1976.
“Madame D'Aulnoy.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Sept. 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_d'Aulnoy.
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