We know for a fact that there are hooded capes that are colored red. We know for a fact that there are wolves and grandmothers. Little Red Riddinghood and thus Mother Goose fairytales are true! Right?
2006-09-20 17:04:25 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wrong. All of the elements are found in real life, but the stories themselves are not as such. What's your point anyway? Even if some items from some fairy tales are true, that doesn't mean all or any fairy tales are true.
2006-09-20 17:07:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
With all due respect, do your homework- read. The orginal fairy tales, especially little red riding hood are based on politics and some were even considered hidden messages to the various parties. Social democrats and communists attempted to write / rewrite them to introduce their own morals, social views and agendas. Sleeping Beauty was considered a form of politcal propaganda which symbolized the Nazi's and Hitler as well as sexual maturity. Read Grimm's tales and decide for yourself.
2006-09-21 00:17:39 · answer #2 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sara! What a pleasant surprise! Yes Dear, they are true stories, but they're in the form of a metaphor; they allude to other things. Your very clever to see this, I'm pleased. Your progressing much quicker than I'd ever hoped, keep up the good work!!!! Soon You'll be free little one, then You'll soar!!
2006-09-21 00:10:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely! The existence of red hooded capes PROVES that it is all true.
2006-09-21 00:10:56 · answer #4 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't necessarily say that they are true, but that they do have truthful aspects of human behavior. There is plenty of innocence as well as greed and revenge alive and well in society. So, in a sense, the "fairy tales" can teach us useful lessons and can be as true as we want them to be...
Just like anything else!
2006-09-21 00:09:22 · answer #5 · answered by iniyaitza 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
fairy tales are meant to display a moral, before you got the watered down version of the fairytales we have today they were much more gruesome, in cinderella one of the step sisters cut off her heal so her foot would fit in the glass slipper, in the little mermaid she dies in the end, its not all happy endings
2006-09-21 00:07:34 · answer #6 · answered by Solomon Dump 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bravo Sara. Noone else seems to get what you are saying. If its in a book, then it must be true, right? Wrong! The bible is a book, is it true? Wrong! People will believe whatever someone can sell them on.
2006-09-21 00:12:43 · answer #7 · answered by diaryofamadblackman 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I propose we use little red riding hood as a bible and start a new religion.
2006-09-21 00:06:56 · answer #8 · answered by Sooku 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, they are used to teach children lessons in a way they will understand, much as Jesus did with his stories and Aesop's Fables.
2006-09-21 00:20:38 · answer #9 · answered by cailincox 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutly true. Yes, They were fairytails.
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2006-09-21 00:07:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋