Mental Journey In Fairy Tales

Fairy Tales can represent the issue a person need’s to address. In most fairy tales there is one centeral figure. It is he or she whom you follow in the story. The protagonist is often set up with a problem they have to solve or overcome. In the progress they will often learn a lesson and/or prove a point of moral value, if they are good at heart and do the right thing they will be rewarded. We see this in some of the most famous fairy tales such as ‘Snow White’ who has to escape her evil stepmother, during her stay with the dwarfs and she has to deal with the temptation from the old woman. As we see in these examples the protagonists often take a journey either by choice or by necessity. Most often these journeys are actual journeys where the main character travels
She has to overcome her problems at home, her quest is to follow the right path, which in this case is to be good and do the right things at home. She had to overcome the tyranny from her stepmother and two stepsisters and because she displays the necessary maturity and does this she is rewarded. Though she does not travel anywhere she is still faced with a problem she has to solve. The mental journey in this case represents her problems growing up with the envious women who try to make little of her and make her life difficult. This is a situation which reflects some aspects of our inner world and of the steps required by our evolution from immaturity to maturity. This is a situation many children and adults can recall and so is it with many situations in fairy tales. These quests or journeys in fairy tales reflect situations, which often occur in life and this is also one of the reasons why fairy tales appeal to so many people. But as these often are situations which people can recognise from real life, some of the themes addressed in fairy tales are quite unpleasant and brutal as life sometimes