The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this concrete terror through metaphors.
Jack D. ZipesMots clés fairy-tales
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
Jack D. ZipesMots clés fantasy fairy-tales
Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.
Jack D. ZipesFairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.
Jack D. ZipesMots clés communication fairy-tales conflict
Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.
Jack D. ZipesMots clés fairy-tales
If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation.
Jack D. ZipesMots clés fairy-tales
In olden times, when wishing still helped....”
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Mots clés the-frog-king
Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live in the woods with the wolf.
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