fairy tales
When I think about fairy tales the typical red riding hood and the cinderalla story comes to mind. This being that good always wins and the those who are bad get punished. There typically told before bed and as a form of comforting and reasuring. How ever the fairy tales from the author grimm seem much more violent. This to me was much different than the usual disney type fairy tales that seem overly sugar coated. These lead little girls to believe little girls that they can princess and little boys can be super heros. Grimms depication was much more realistic, real life view. He also seems to not just target one particular type of audience and present a more broad view and range. In grimms version of little red riding hood the wolf is symbolized as a chil molesting man that follows a young girl home to her house and procededes to get her to get undressed and climb in bed with him. To an adult this seems perverted but to a child the underlying concept is blown over there head. Grimms versions omit none of the horrifying details to these storys and take away that warm fuzzy feeling we get when we read the disney versions.