‘Fairy tale’ has been defined by folklorists as being a magical , Marina Warner agrees against this definition in her book Once Upon a Time. A short history of fairytale. Although creatures such as Fairies and goblins are known to exist, however do not always appear in the tales. Usually the stories depict a often young female protagonist to which she becomes a heroine by overcoming the boundaries and limits set before her. This comes with an magical enabler, for example Cinderella's fairy godmother.
‘The elements that make up the fairy tale genre were all in place before the 1550’s’(Bottigheimer), these elements includes mythical creatures, magic, enchantments and so on. Arguably these elements can be traced back further in the form of the
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Fairy tales are believed to have originated as folk tales. ALthough a folk tale and a fairy tale can be very similar, they are two seprated genres. Fairy tales include a more of a magical aspect with unrealistic events, folk tales are set in familiar setting and more down to earth but with cerian unexplainable moments. . Ruth Bottigheimer, states in her book Grimms Bad Girls and Bold Boys that this collection can be considered as a link between the mediterranean and Europe. IN Europe at the time the genre was also growing with collections by Boccaccio and Chaucer in the fourteenth and fifteenth century. In the mid 1630’s Bastille published his collection of tales in a northern italian dialect which ‘isolated the northern european tradition for more than two centuries’ (Bottigheimer). A few years later in 1697 Charles Perrault released his collection Histoires ou contes du temps passé. This collection changed the face of fairy tales, Perrault had taken a ‘new direction by presenting a group of tales independent of a justificatory setting.’(Bottigheimer). As i have mentioned previously, Perrault's work was favoured by King Louis XIV as well as his court and is now known for being a great example of french literary history. Due to its