Fairy
tales vs
Novels
There’s no wonder why
Fairy tales are for children, or for
childlike adults. If you have read a novel for adults, you will see this. A
novel is often much more complicated and when reading many of them you have to
think a lot. Every
character in a novel thinks a great deal, too. What happens
in their minds is described in details and often changeable and sometimes
conflicting. In a
person, there may be two parts, a good part and a bad part. A
character can be good in the start but turns bad later, and vice versa. Another
point, a person’s appearance can be different from his nature. A man who looks
very gentle and harmless can turn out to be a very cruel person.
However in fairy tales, it often doesn’t happen that way. If
someone is bad from the start, he is very likely to be bad until the story
ends! And if someone has a devil look, he must be a cruel character or turn out
to be a witch! Fairy tales go like that. Unlike in novels, characters in fairy
tales do not have complex ways of thinking or don’t have conflicting thoughts
in their minds. Fairy tales usually just focus on describing about actions of
characters, not very much about their feelings. For example in the story
“
Sleeping beauty”, the
prince found the old castle where the princess was
sleeping in and got in. The fairy tale just tells that the prince was amazed at
the beauty of the princess and kneed down to kiss her. But it doesn’t tell
about how the prince felt when he saw such an old castle and he even didn’t
wonder to whom this castle belonged, why it was emptied like that, and why such
a beautiful girl slept in this castle, etc.
Fairy tales are simple in the way of writing. You don’t have
to think very much when reading a fairy tale. Therefore, it is for children and
whoever likes the simplicity in life.
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