Fairy Tale and Fantasy...?

Question

There have been many stories from history that have ended in a 'perfect type' of way. For example take 'The Little Sea Maid' (also known as 'The Little Mermaid') from Hans Christian Anderson. At the end of the story when she is unable to kill her love she throws herself from the ship ready to die but instead is 'saved' from death by children of the air. OR 'Le Belle te le Bete' (I believe it is, my French is very rusty. Also known as 'Beauty and the Beast') from Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont where the primary female character eventually finds a way to love the beast.

But the real world is not like this, and if presented with a real world example we are in the most part unable to accept it, it is to perfect in a way.

So my question is, if we like these fairy tales and hold them as an example for what can be why do we not strive to achieve it? AND Why do we resist it, and try to change it to what we are comfortable with?

Serious answers only.
Please explain your answers.

I thankyou in advance for your insight.

Answer 1

We love fairytales because they represent our dreams & ideals of what life might be. Good does triumph. Love conquers all. We want to believe this. We may even try to live this way, but it doesn't hold up in real life.

The thing about fairytales (aside from the fact that they are pure fantasy & symbolic) is that they end on a vague high note: "And they lived happily ever after...." Well what does that mean? Is that possible? What if after you marry Prince Charming & you find out that he snores & has a drinking problem. We live in an imperfect world. Fairytales are in a magical world of absolutes. They don't go into the details of the drudgery & difficult daily business of life. They gloss over the imperfect & the mundane.

They are an unrealistic ideal. They are so seductive because they are impossible. But romantics like me want to believe that they are possible. & sometimes, they almost are. Sometimes in life the hero does win. Good does triumph over evil. Love does conquer all. Sometimes you can almost live happily ever after (with a few bumps & setbacks here & there).

I do still strive for the fairytale. I haven't let go of my childhood dreams. I still have a practical side but I will never let go of the dreamer in me. Maintaining that idealism & childlike sense of wonder opens you up to the beauty of life. Life can be a fairytale if you choose to make it one. I am a romantic heroine & I've found my hero. I hope for happily ever after...

Answer 2

I guess like snow white, her life was happy and life was good, only when someone else came into her structured life.
That her beauty was seen as an obstacle to another.

I feel this is part of life, some people will want, what others have.
Be it looks, houses, relationships. as the saying goes.
The grass is greener on the other side.

So people get jealous and try to get that perfect world that they themselves don't see themselves living.
If only they knew that others looked upon themselves with the same envy.

I feel if you really want to achieve something you will indeed get it.
and this is what i take from fairy tales.
Happy endings don't get handed to you, you have to make your own ending and not anyone elses.

Answer 3

People like Fairy Tales because there is a chance for happiness, there is conflict that gets in between it! Then there is a strong desire or hope to overcome adversity, to fight for our dreams. Sometimes there's a happy ending..or maybe there's a BAMBI ending...

Some people really do have this hope and strive to achieve it.

others lose hope or know that it might not be them, and instead of resisting..just move on to try to achieve happiness in a different sort of way..or maybe that fairy tale just wasnt theirs to be had. Not everyone wants to be a princess..some want to be real

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I think we all do strive for fairy tale lives, though we always seem to fail in that pursuit. At the same time, we are so used to things that seem good turning out not so good that we fear that our fairy tale dreams are really false hopes.

We also fear that we don't deserve such good things, and that we can't achieve them. How can we possibly claim what we feel incapable of deserving? We stop ourselves from gaining what we most want simply because we have an irrational fear of gaining what we don't deserve.

We feel like we must earn our dreams, or that once we gain our dreams we will be in some sort of debt, having to earn our keep.

For me, thinking of this reminds me of my Christian faith. God offers complete protection, guidance, love, joy, peace, and wonder, free of charge, and we can't do anything to pay him back. I often find myself refusing God's gifts because I don't feel worthy of accepting them, and I feel like I have to earn them, even though I know in my heart that that's not the case.

I think that is why we don't live fairy tale lives: because we feel we don't deserve them.

Answer 6

You are absolutely right. Many would call your beliefs a fairy tale rather than believe in anything perfect.

Answer 7

fairy tales are not a representation of outer life they are like dreams - a representation of what goes on inside our minds and hearts. In this realm happily ever after is possible.

read bruno bettelheim's book.