What would happen if we modernized fairy tales/childhood stories?

Question

Really just bloody popped out of nowhere while i was doing my purchasing assignment concerning e-commerce! What i mean is, for example, childhood stories always depict people buying stuff from people in a shop....what if they were re-written to the form of people buying stuff from machines that auto-replenish itself with modernized supply chain systems (not like robots) using RFID? Or for instance, kids read books online instead of reading storybooks etc.....

What do you think will happen? Will future generations be more receptive to technology? Will they forget the thread of humanity that exists in our childhood stories (I also understand that it depends on the author and how he writes it, but its just random thoughts!)?

Would you oppose such modernization?
Would you wanna live in such a world?
Would you tell your kids such bedtime stories?
Is it really bad for this to happen?

Dammit, i need to get back to my assignment!!!

Answer 1

I think there's a reason most fairy tales are set in "old times" -it boils it down to essentials. People and places, no robotic arms or bionic wolfs to clutter up the meaning or moral of the story. Anyway "modern technology" has really only existed for about 100 years...about 0.1% of human history.

If modern technology and modes and means were to be included the scope of the story would have to be broadened...what's the point of a character going to an automated-replenishing dispenser when they can go to a "shop" in a simple story? Form follows function...if the story is set in the future and can include some technology for a good reason then it might be there to accomplish some end in the story. Read Podkayne of Mars by Robert Heinlein, it's almost a kids' story but it's set in space and does have some "modern" elements.

There might be stories in the future like "little Timmy the robot went to the great central computer..." if that's the norm for people.

I would oppose modernization for the sake of modernization. There's a word that fits here: pointless. Now I need to find something better to do too, haha.

Answer 2

It would not be good to modernize fairy tales too much. They have deep inner meanings that can help not only children, but adults.

These are very important lessons, that could sometimes be almost lost forever, except for inside of us.

They are best when the person is led to figure out the answer on their own. They actually give not just answers, but actually life experience. Figuring them out is solving a puzzle. That is doing something, and you learn more in life by doing, then by just reading.

Jesus knew this, along with the Old Testament writers of the Bible. The Mustard Seed. The talents buried in the ground. Many more. It's a teaching method.

Answer 3

I'm thinking that in this day and age, the author would be subject to some sort of child terror abuse legal activities and would probably end up in jail.

Have you read the fairy tales? Most are so scary that if one were to delve too deeply, we'd be scarred for lives. Oh, wait! Too late!

Humpty Dumpty falls off a wall. Ouch!
Little Red Riding Hood plundered by the Big Bad Wolf.
Hansel and Gretel invited into a home with a brick oven!

Our kids would be even more screwed up than they already are if we told the tales in modern-day language!

Don't risk it... jail would be no fun!

Answer 4

People come up with variations on the old tales all the time. In the original 'Little Mermaid', Ariel died and turned into sea foam. The Disneyfied version has her living happily ever after, which turns the whole story on its head. But as long as the originals survive, there's no REAL harm to the variants.

Answer 5

yes you do need to get back to you assignment!

but since I dont, here goes:

Children these days are more advanced, my children know more about the machines in our house than I knew about machines in my house when I was growing up - my 16 month old knows how to open and close the DVD player on the DVD player and computer.
My 5 year old asked for a laptop computer for her birthday!!
And my three year old can take apart and fix almost anything she can get her hands on - she takes batteries out of the phone and wireless mice in order to put new batteries in her toys.

Childhood stories still have their place, they love the story of cinderella, although they believe she was sad because she lost her shoe (the girls LOVE shoes!!)

There is nothing to lose if the stories you tell your children teach them how to be moral citizens in soceity (cinderella worked hard - teaches them to give 100%)

Answer 6

I think that a child will always like a parent to read. them a bedtime story or to tell them one. Just what would it be like if we could not just settle down with a good book to escape our everyday life? when my children were small they would ask me to read them a story. I would reach for a book and they would say no mama not one of those but one you make up. I let them choose a subject and then I would start a story and another subject would be thought of and the story would get wilder and wilder. They thought this was fun!

Answer 7

Cinderella text-messaging her fairy godmother?

Ariel with a blog page?

Hansel and Gretel using GPS?

It's a novel thought

Answer 8

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