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We’ll Live Happily Ever After: 200 Years and Counting of Grimm Tales. Some Elements Common to Fairy Tales. 1) The tales are about children. 2) The tales have a strong sense of good and evil. 3) Characters are relatively flat -- often marked with one salient feature.
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We’ll Live Happily Ever After: 200 Years and Counting of Grimm Tales
Some Elements Common to Fairy Tales • 1) The tales are about children. • 2) The tales have a strong sense of good and evil. • 3) Characters are relatively flat -- often marked with one salient feature. • 4) The ending is generally hopeful. • 5) While they are unrealistic, they are not untrue. • 6) The hero is rewarded, the foe punished. • 7) Fairy Tale elements according to Tolkien
Some Ways Fairy Tales Contribute to Child Development • 1) They appeal to the child’s mind and emotions and address emotional issues but removed in time and place . • 2) They give implicit answers to questions of identity without stating them explicitly - child's fantasy applies them to his/her own needs. • 3) They give examples of justice - children yearn for this. • 4) They give hope that may be fantastical but can still be true. • 5) They instruct through life lessons. • 6) They provide more than a temporary refuge.
Sources • Bruno Bettelheim: The Uses of Enchantment • J.R.R. Tolkien: Tree and Leaf • G.K. Chesterton: “On Household Gods and Goblins” • Nancy K. Jentsch: jentsch@nku.edu