Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales were composed to express eternal joys, sorrows, hopes, and dreams of human kind. Although these folk tales may be aimed at children, but they surely reflect the values, assumptions, and concerns of our cultural traditions. They always portrayed one moral that obedience, good manners, beauty, and hard work always lead to rewards while opposing characteristics are consistently punished. The two tales, “Cinderella” and “Hansel and Gretel”, are revolving around a female center character. …

…ever after." However, such ending seems disturbing and even unethical. The father in Cinderella feels happy for his child when she marry’s the prince. In Hansel and Gretel, the father, who was too weak to resist the evil suggestion of his wife and with her abandoned the children in the forest, is not only not punished for his highly immoral way of acting but even gets to enjoy the treasures the children bring back.