Fairy Tales
When you sit down and read, what I consider, a fairy tale today, their setup and themes have commonalities. For instance, most tales will take you off into a magical land of unordinary people and creatures with uncommon abilities. Most stories that I have known have underlying meanings, morals, and/or lessons to be learned from reading them. Personally, I did not realize until I was older and reread the stories for children I babysat that there was anything there. “Little Red Riding Hood” for example, all I thought of that story when I was young that wolves are bad and don’t skip through the woods by yourself, while totally being ignorant to the fact that the common theme was do not talk to strangers.
Comparing Grimm Fairy Tales to the similar stories today, several features have mutated. One of the major differences that I notice between the two well known versions is the ways and types of morals that are being pushed forward. In the stories written by the famous Grimm brothers, their morals and lessons are blatantly visible throughout the tales. For example in “Cinderella” when the step sisters are brutally punished for their acts, that lesson grabs your attention contrary to updated versions of “Cinderella” where she finds her prince charming and lives happily ever after and it is unknown the end result of the sisters.