Question for my article. :]]

Mkay.
I'm writing an article right now about remaking fairy tales.
And, I have two questions for anyone who would like to respond.

Did/do fairy tales have any impact on your view of love, hope, and happiness?

And..

What are your thoughts on remaking a fairy tale?

Did/do fairy tales have any impact on your view of love, hope, and happiness?

Yes. Fairy tales sort of bend the truth, but really are telling stories of what society should be: loving, caring, and not sexual [in a bad way.] To be honest, fairy tales [I refer to tales such as Aladdin] showed me that you have to win one's love and that love is a precious thing that can't be bought. I know that sounds stupid to most, but that's what I got out of the movies I watched. Fairy tales taught me so much; they taught me to be kind to everyone and what love SHOULD be, not what love is today.

What are your thoughts on remaking fairy tales?

I don't like it. Remaking. Sure, so the ones over and over again, but do not change them in anyway. They're perfect the way they are, teaching kids what they do. Why tamper with that? Remaking and sequels just ruin things . . .

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Fairy tales give hope, especially to little girls. It is based upon fairy tales that every girl dreams of being a princess and growing up to finding that perfect husband while living happily ever after.

We learn all too soon that there is no fairy tale ending in life; however, the memories and stories help us dream and allow us to use our imaginations more.

I often see my daughter playing with her barbies and pretending that life is perfect. I think that it is a perfect site and most of the time she is pretending to be cinderella. The memories of my childhood and the fairy tale stories my mother read to me rush back to my mind as they will hers some day.

I would not change the fairy tales. I just remind my children that they are stories and real life is different. I also tell them that they can always find the answers in those stories of how to treat others. If my daughter is being mean I ask her if Cinderella was mean. I also remind her that Cinderella was even nice to her stepmother and stepsisters. My daughter will usually straighten right up.

--Sher

1. Yes, fairy tales have affected the way I think about a lot of things. Most of all, they've affected how I think about self-fulfillment, and how I think about truth. For the first - most fairy tales are about the characters finding themselves - becoming stronger, actualized, triumphant. They've given me a picture of what I could strive for. As for truth - the tales themselves have taught me about that. They may not be true, but they can be, in a non-physical, mythological way - truer than a lot of things that the real, empirical world tells us.

2. Fairy tales are remade all the time. What do you count as the 'original' versions? The Disney movies? The Brothers Grimm collection and the like? In either case, those versions are simply stories captured at one point in their metamorphosis. They are changing all the time. That is part of what they are - the transform to fit the times, the context... Modern remakes of fairy tales help pass on the stories to newer generations. I think if we can have the new versions and the old taught together, that would be the best thing.

Thanks you guys. :D

What's a farce?

^^^
A exaggerated, made up story.

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