Mary Bisbee's The Evolution Of Fairy Tales

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According to the book The Evolution of Beauty and the Beast, Mary Bisbee states, that In 1697, fairy tales existed first by oral tradition, then by the coined phrase in France, and Madame D’Aulnoy used the term in her collection to discuss issues of the day (Bisbee 17). Fairy tales are simply outrageous children’s short stories about dragons and fairies. However, some fairy tales teaching morality to people, particularly women and children. According to her book “The Classic Fairy Tales,” Maria Tatar states, that “Fairy tales register an effort on the part of both women and men to develop maps for coping with personal anxieties, family conflicts, social frictions, and the myriad frustrations of everyday life” (Tatar xi). In 1756, the French …show more content…
It fails in the story because Snow White lets her evil stepmother, who dresses as an old lady, in the cottage for the third time and accepts a bodice lace, comb and apple from her. Also, Snow White lets the old lady comb her hair, bodice lace the dress then she eats the apple. However, it succeeds in real life because now parents will teach children to not trust and let any strangers in the home. Also, be aware of strangers, even don't trust your own friends because someday they will hurt you more than the strangers, as a result, one of the most important morality in the story; do not let strangers in the …show more content…
Once upon a time there was a beauty, which the beauty is one of the three daughters of a farmer. The youngest daughter is very beautiful with a good heart. One day the good man went on his journey, and he asked his three daughters what they need, the two oldest daughter told to their father to buy new gowns, headdresses, and ribbons, but the youngest daughter didn’t want anything, she just wants her father to bring her a rose (Marie LePrince de Beaumont). On his way, her father was lost in the forest and found a wonderful castle with a warm bed and nice food. He slept there for a night until the snow stopped. He picked up a golden rose for beauty, suddenly the beast appeared and the good man was very scared. The beast told him, I brought you in my castle and you are stealing golden rose from my garden, then the man explains that he wants the rose for her girl, and the beast told him to bring beauty to the castle or he will be killed. Then beauty went with his father to see the beast, and the beast fell in love with the beauty and let her stay in the castle and did not kill her father. Then the beauty started to love the beast as a friend by his kindness even he was very ugly. One-day beauty asked the beast let her visit her father for one month. The beast lets her go, but she should come back after one month in the castle. However, she did not

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