Study Guide for Fairy Tales

• told for various reasons
• collected by people who heard the stories and wrote them down
• different versions of each in every culture
• unknown when each was originally created
• church considered them heathen
• popular with peasant class and not the upper
• 18th century didn't like them because they are unreal
• told in nurseries as bedtime stories
• 19th century liked their imagination and fantasy
• considered not for adults and only belonged in the nursery
• writers created their own versions based on originals
• perpetuate negative stereotypes of women
• feminist rewrite tales and encourage women not to let their children read them
• used to teach children what authors think is right or wrong
• we absorb the values that are within them