ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Tales can be true or fictional, but they generally consist of a narrative, with a beginning and an end, made more interesting and exciting with vivid details. Some tales are meant to teach specific lessons (like your family’s history or your community’s values), while others simply relay a funny story.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reading fairy tales gives false hope to the readers, making them believe that the world is colourful with no flaws. Watching or reading such fairy tales can build a fence around the child, affecting their emotional, and physical development. They may develop false expectations or dreams.

Detailed explanation-3: -Based on the Jungian interpretation, fairy tales teach children how to deal with basic human conflicts, desires, and relationships in a healthy way; acquiring these skills can ultimately impact a child’s health, quality of life, or even influence its values and beliefs in the future.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yet while oral fairy tales likely existed for thousands of years before the literary forms, there is no pure folktale, and each literary fairy tale draws on folk traditions, if only in parody. This makes it impossible to trace forms of transmission of a fairy tale.