Fairytales

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What are Fairy tales?

A fairy tale is a fiction story that contains imaginary characters and magical emenets.

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• Most fairy tales contain morals that teach us lessons.
• Fairy tales differ from folk tales because folk tales are real beliefs and legends that are passed down while fairy tales include made up stories and fictional characters.

THe history of fairy tales

• Fairy tales were originally gruesome stories created for adults by people that believed in black magic at the time.

• It also stated that fairy tales were created by women to protest against men.

• The word "fairy tale" originally came from the french word "conte de fées" in the late 17th century.

• Fairy tales came from stories that were passed down orally in Europe.

The Big Three

Charles Perrault

(1628-1703)

Perrault started writing fairytales in the late 17th century, He got in trouble because tales at that time were regarded as an offence to the king.

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The main morals in most of his fairytales was warning women and young girls about trusting men.

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Perrault published his stories under his son's name; Pierre because he was too scared of criticism.

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Perrault started writing fairy tales at 70, His most famous book is "Tales of Mother Goose."

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Most Famous Fairytales

Puss in Boots

Little Red Riding Hood

Sleeping Beauty

Cinderella

Hans Christian Andersen

Andersen began writing stories that he already heard but as the time went by, he created his own.

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Andersen published his first book "The Improvisatore" between 1835 and 1837, the book contained 8 fairy tales

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His fairy tales were published in America long before being published in Denmark, his birth country.

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Andersen also wrote plays, poems and novels.

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Most Famous F airy Tales

The Emperor's New Clothes

Thumbellina

The Ugly Duckling

The Little Mermaid

The Princess and the Pea

The Brothers Grimm

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born on 1785 and 1786 in Germany.

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The Grimm Brothers collected fairy tales from people around their village.

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Their first book "The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" was Published in 1812 and it had 86 tales.

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Many people thought their fairy tales were too violent.

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Most Famous Fairy Tales

Hansel and Gretel

Rumpelstiltskin

Rapzunel

The Frog Prince

The Elements of a Fairy Tale

• The Beginning: Once upon a time, In a far far away land.

• Conflict between the good and evil characters.

• Good/ Evil Characters.

• Usually ends with "happily ever after."

• The conflict is solved by the end of the story.

• Events happen in 3's and 7's.

• The story should always teach the reader a lesson in the end.

• Make believe events.

How to write a fairy tale?

Good character

Bad character

Happy ending

Moral

Conflict

The hero gets his happy ending.

Decide on what lesson you want to teach through your story

Think of someone that might be the hero

Think of someone that you'd like to be the antagonist

Think of a conflict that would be created by the antagonist

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• Conflict is solved

• Happy ending

• Fairytale beginning

• Set the setting

• Who are the characters?

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• What happens to the characters?

• Climax

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