Fairy Tales

The purpose of these tales other then entertainment is to teach a lesson. The tale of "The Three Spinsters" is meant to teach people that they should keep their promises. The young girl in the story keeps her promise, and everything turns out even better then she expected. In the tale of "The Fisherman and his wife". The wife and the husband get what they deserve. She gets what she deserves because she is so greedy and he gets what he deserves for doing everything she tells him to. All of the stories are like this. When someone does something good in the story or has a good trait then good comes to them. But when they do bad things or have bad traits bad things come to them.

My impression of these stories are that they are a little harsh, even when people are good and eventually get good back. Some of the elements of the stories are violent, and scary. Like in "The Gallant Taylor" when he kills the giants and they are swimming in their own blood. I like the lessons that the stories teach, but I think I will stick to Disney for my nighttime movies. No one wants to fall asleep watching "Rapunzel" when the prince gets his eyes gouged out.