Difference Between Fairy Tales Vs. Reality

Fairy Tales vs. Reality In Valerie Gribben’s essay, “Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work,” Gribben states how fairy tales influenced her perceptions as a medical student. Gribben immersed herself into fairy tales to help her cope with her medical practice. She discovered the “connections between the worlds of fantasy and medicine, between fairy dust and consumption” (351). By making this connection Gribben was able to find comfort in remembering “that happy endings are possible” (352). I don’t share Gribben’s belief that fairy tales help us deal with the experiences in our lives. I disagree because fairy tales give people a false sense of hope, also they do not help one to deal with real life problems, and lastly real life does not always result in a happy ending. I disagree with …show more content…
Fairy tales encourage us to rely on others to save us, but what if we’re waiting for someone whom will never show up; nonetheless, giving many people false hope. In reality our problems cannot be fixed with simple “fairy dust” (351). Although, Gribben believes that “fairy tales are, at their core, heightened portrayals of human nature, revealing, as the glare of injury and illness does, the underbelly of mankind” (352). She does not give the notion of fairy tales helping humans fix actual problem in our fluctuating life experiences. For example, in the well known fairy tale “Cinderella” by Charles Perrault, he tells the tale of a beautiful maiden name Cinderella, who so happen to have an evil step-mother and two wicked step-sisters. Cinderella step- mother and sisters treated Cinderella with the utter most indecency, Ordering Cinderella to do the “meanest work of the house” (403). Although Cinderella was treated so unfairly, she still managed to stay humble and very kind. “It happened that the king’s son gave a ball, and invited all persons of fashion to it”, Cinderella so desperately wanted to