Once Upon a Time, fairy tales weren't written for children... In spite of their name, the popular fairy tales usually have very little to do with fairies. We took the name from the French "contes des fee", and the French literary fairy tales of the 17th century do feature far more fairies than the tales which are best-known today. The Grimm brothers collected the folk tales of the German people to make up their volume, but fairy tales are more than just folk tales. The German term for them is "Mãrchen", a word for which there is no satisfactory English equivalent - it is ...

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Discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience. Do they hold as much value for present audiences as in the past? It is impossible to discuss the purpose of fairy tales for a contemporary audience and even more so to discuss their relative value for present audiences in comparison ...

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Once upon a time there was a magical world, where everything was perfect and everybody was happy and it was known as the land of Fairytales. Is this a realistic view of the world? This is the view Fairytales give the reader and it is evident that childhood tales help to shape the listener or reade...

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