Similarities Between Tatar And Orenstein

Maria Tatar, in “An Introduction to Fairy Tales”, and Catherine Orenstein, in “Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality” both show similarities in their work by showing lessons, lies and fantasies, and showing how a story is told. They both refer back to the same main points and show similarity. Tatar and Orenstein are alike in their articles because of the same points they are making towards parents controlling children in fairy tales and real life.
Tatar and Orenstein show lots of similarities between fairy tales and adults. Tatar shows how we live in a world ruled by adults, and in our fairy tales that we read to our children, the adults are considered, “ogres, monsters, and trolls” (307). Tatar is showing how adults like to control everything in fairy tales and in real life, while being considered bad people in fairy tales, this
Tatar shows that fairy tales are supposed to make a “childhood world of imagination” (307), when they also aim at adults for them to have an “adult world of reality” (307). Adults are always in fairy tales and are not made out to be the best characters in them. Orenstein relates to Tatar by showing us adults like to be very straight forward, on reality TV shows when there is sometimes even drama. Orenstein shows adults like to watch reality TV of adult like fairy tales such as the “The Bachelorette” (285) and “Race to the Alter” (285), these shows are like fairy tales because people are falling in love and living in a fantasy, while there may be mean adults on the show trying to ruin the love for some of the couples. On the reality TV shows that are popularly watched by adults, displays lots of “lies and manipulation” (285), making adults out to seem bad once again. Orenstein uses this example to show the relationship with adults and reality TV, because adults are too old to be reading fairy tales