The good guys always prevail in a fairy tale. Sleeping Beauty needed to be protected from Maleficent. Cinderella needed to get away from her stepmother. Every fairy tale needs at least a touch of magic. The good and bad guys in fairy tales are clearly defined I know who I’m rooting for when I read one. The time setting for fairy tales is often unclear, which is part of what makes them interesting. A fairy tale is a story that takes place a long time ago or in the future. When I’m in the mood to read a fairy tale, I’m looking for the following: And those kinds of definitions don’t matter to readers like me.
I could look it up, but chances are, I’d find many different answers that I’d need to wade through to make any sense of them. What is a fairy tale? I don’t know if there’s a “technical” literary definition of what constitutes a fairy tale.
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