2007-10-27 08:44:08 · 26 answers · asked by kennyboy 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
because its a "fairy tale"
2007-10-27 08:46:41 · answer #1 · answered by Alyssa 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fairy tales are generally childhood story's. You aren't really going to tell a child "..and in the end the princess shoots her own brains out..) are you? Fairy tales are fantasy were everything goes, they are comforting memories that most people still remember and relate to when they are adults. Also being tucked up into bed and having a fairy-tale or book read to you at night has become a sorta tradition in most families.
2007-10-27 10:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by hannahrobiha 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some fairy tales aren't really that happy at all
The Little Mermaid died at the end just as an example. She fell in the sea and turned into foam then went away to be a ghost for 300 years in order to get a mortal soul. That's hardly very happy. She didn't get her man like Cinderella did.
Some are even quite horrible and a bit disturbing. I remember reading Rumplestilzkin to some kids once and this king telling a girl to spin a load of straw into gold or he'd cut off her head! Nasty! The Billy goats gruff...most of them got eaten I think.
Poor Gingerbread man....got eaten up by a crafty fox at the end.
They are not always pleasant, but I think in this aspect they are meant to serve as moral lessons for children in some way. Also kids do like to be scared a little bit sometimes, they like creepy stuff as long as it's just a story of course!
If you look back at fairy tales in their original forms, most of them are horribly violent and distasteful stories. Involving people being eaten, lied to, murdered, cursed, melted, banished and all manner of other horrors. Even Scheherazade, the great tale teller was forced to make up those 1001 tales in order to save herself from being killed by a nasty king.
The problem is the most recent recounts of them have been cleaned up, sanitised and made politically correct by the likes of Disney. They have lost some of their viciousness in modern adaptation.
2007-10-27 08:59:32 · answer #3 · answered by lady_sephie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They help us to dream,to think that all the bad things will disappear a day to let the place the good ones, they help us to hope,that,a day,the live will be as nice as that in the fairy-tales.
2007-10-27 09:02:06 · answer #4 · answered by soussou brandaci 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fairy tales where real stories that people added fiction to "the happy ending is fiction" so that they could tell them to children
2007-10-27 08:52:26 · answer #5 · answered by cac c 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the stories are for kids and you don't want to tell your kids that you might as well all be doomed because everything never ends happily.
and if it didn't live happily ever after, the story would go on and parents don't have time to tell the entire life story of Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty etc etc.
hope this helps and remember: not everything has a happy ending.
2007-10-27 08:51:43 · answer #6 · answered by missmollie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To give kids false-hope that when they grow up their life will be a Disney movie all happy and everything turns out just dandy. Really, get married and live happily ever after? No! Not most of the time!
2007-10-27 08:54:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beacause...
* Its a fairy tale
* Its normally for children
* They r bed time story's for most children*
2007-10-27 08:49:30 · answer #8 · answered by MZ--VIKKI3 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Really. For once I'd like to see the Princess turn into a frog after a kiss.
2007-10-27 08:51:06 · answer #9 · answered by WooleyBooley again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After spending the morning on the phone with BMO, trying to get MY money...and not as of yet succeeding, I say it's because they don't want little children jumping in front of the Skytrain because that's what Bambi did when his Mom died...
2007-10-27 08:49:01 · answer #10 · answered by IamBatman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because one'll eventually be written involving mass slaughter in graphic detail. the happy endings are to lead you into a false sense of security
2007-10-27 08:51:34 · answer #11 · answered by Tigris 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋