The foofy things on the sides are panniers. Read the second paragraph. No I mean which version and which stories specifically? My point is that all major fairy tales are very old stories that predate when they were first recorded. That is the best answer you can get without asking specifically about Cinderella for example and even that is long historical exercise that many scholars have spent significant time on. It is an important part of the whole ethos of fairy tales that they are not given any clear historic, or come to that, geographical location.
That is not a joke or an evasion, it is the right answer. This historical indefiniteness is a large part of what gives fairy tales their mythic resonance. Historical specificity and accuracy would totally kill the fairy-tale mood. Folktales in oral tradition are generally set in the contemporary or near-contemporary world.
If you know where to look, however, folklore journals there are plenty of folktales that have been collected that include guns and automobiles and other accoutrements of the modern world. Fairy tales that are self-consciously created by a single author BASED ON material from oral tradition are another category altogether: Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, virtually every fairy tale published for children.
But I agree that sometime around the 17th Century would reflect the way people imagined these stories taking place, at the time when the Grimms were compiling them. That means the setting has some form of feudalism going on, which was historically found in European medieval society. Again, this is a characteristic of Europe, the place of all things old.
Despite this decidedly European atmosphere, though, most fairy tales don't happen in a specific place or time; a few mention place names, but mostly as a way to indicate the exotic or foreign. For instance, we hear about a count from Switzerland in "The Three Languages. It must've seemed positively outlandish. Also, "The Three Black Princesses" is set in East India, which we're betting seemed super-exotic since very few Germans of the early s would've had the chance to go there.
Just like some places have names, they also appear on maps unfortunately, not maps that exist in our world. For example, in "The Raven," the protagonist learns that he must rescue a princess at the golden castle of Mount Stromberg. He meets a helpful giant who says, "I'll look it up on my map. It shows all the cities, villages, and houses. Otherwise, we get to see a lot of cottages and forests. Nice places, right? If your story is best told by using elements that do not fit within the rules of reality, a fairy tale may be appropriate.
A fairy tale can be used to explore all manner of ideas and questions: good versus evil, moral versus immoral, luck versus ill-luck, weak versus strong, and anything else that might be on your mind. Because the setting of a fairy tale is magical and the characters are not bound by reality, your story can be constructed around the point you want to make.
Use a fairy tale to explore and work out conflicts. There is nothing more satisfying than a story in which the good come out on top and the evil get their just rewards. In a fairy tale this can happen and it is appropriate. In a fairy tale, you can put your main character in difficult situations, knowing that somehow he or she can be saved. You can also simply use a fairy tale to tell a good story. If you are in the mood for a story which takes you to another place and allows you to escape into your imagination, fairy tales are a good place to go.
List of Terms Action. Ad Hominem. Alter Ego. APA Citation. Comic Relief. Deus ex machina. Double Entendre. Dramatic irony. Extended Metaphor. Fairy Tale. Figures of Speech.
Literary Device.
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