Fairy Tale And Archetype By Margarita Engle

Poem essay

Is it true that nothing reveals more about a person’s secret heart than the adult memory of a favorite childhood fairy tale. .Both poems provide examples of these fairy tales and how they are completely different from real life. Fairy tales are part of so many children’s childhoods that children do not understand the tales to the fullest. . Though as people grow it is not as appealing to them as it was when they were children. Fairy tales have more of a purpose than children might think.

Firstly the poem Archetype by Margarita Engle both demonstrates how fairy tales defy real life logic and demonstrates that some fairy tales have a deeper meaning than is shown in the tale , also how sometimes the fairy tales might not even make sense yet children still read it. Fairy tales usually have this nonexistent thing happen yet there is never a moment in which something realistic happens. Sometimes fairy tales have to be realistic. A famine, crumbs . . . Instead of magic beanstalks and man-eating giants or wolves disguised as gentle grandmas I

E. Stallings usually have a positive way of being seen. Though some adults tend to see the negativity rather than seeing the positive . While children can not see the negative as they do not understand any negativity yet. While other people do not want to see the negative side of a fairy tale, rather they want to see the positive side . I never understood all the fuss about princesses poisoned or rescued from dragons. Yet they are always positive ways of seeing things . You have to fight magic with magic. You have to believe That you have something impossible up your sleeve, The language of snakes, perhaps, an invisible cloak, An army of ants at your beck, or a lethal joke. Fairy tales often have a deeper meaning that children do not understand until they are much older and more experienced.Though they also start to realize more negative things then