Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work By Valerie Gribben

Fairy tales are stories that try to teach readers morals and standards that society has chosen as to what makes a person good. In “Practicing Medicine Can Be Grimm Work”, Valerie Gribben believes fairy tales can connect to reality, make difficult times easier, and they can guide people to do the right thing. Fairy tales can help guide people through life both directly and indirectly, they instruct people on how to behave and react to certain situations. Through fairy tales we learn how kindness, morals, helpfulness, and so on. Fairy tales can portray human nature, but often times it’s presented in an exaggerated way; the poor man wants a house, then a castle, then to be a god or the man who seeks out the most beautiful princess in the most

Gribben even mentions that fairy tales especially teach people on how to be kind. Certain fairy tales try to teach lessons more than others, in “Beauty and the Beast” the main lesson taught throughout the story is to not judge people based on appearance. There’s also the underlying lesson that girls don’t have to focus on getting married, they can seek out knowledge instead; boys are taught in the story that they don’t have to overly masculine in order to be seen in a positive light by others. In Cinderella, however, the main lesson is to always be kind with the underlying lesson they girls should want to be pretty and find a husband. I remember my mom always talking about her favorite Disney movie was “The Little Mermaid” and I can see that in the type of person my mother is; my mom is the type of person who would willingly sacrifice something for a person she loved the same way Ariel had to sacrifice her voice to walk on land. The way fairy tales teach us lessons isn’t directly, they tell a story of a person and if that person has desirable traits they have a happy ending, but if they have undesirable traits they often end up failing or, in the worst case, they end up