The Joy of Fairy Tales!

Ah~ Fairy tales. The one thing that I enjoy more than comedy. Not only because the tales bring normal characters into extraordinary life (or vice versa) but what also brings a paradise into the readers eyes. Well maybe not a paradise per se, but something that you find on the dream side of things, fantasy if you will. Even when I was a child I always enjoying hearing fairy tales, the traditional ones like Cinderella to ones that hardly anybody hears about. In a way its how my imagination got started.

In fairy tales you could literally bring anything to life within that realm you made up. It doesn't even have to connect if you truly don't want it to. You could even have it end with a tragic scene like in the real versions (Grim's) of Sleeping Beauty and all of those Disney films. But you could also have two very different characters get together just like in the film in class today, the one with the rat and the man. Yes, its something you usually wouldn't think of but that's the beauty behind it. That's what brings a fairy tale to life. All of that mystery, the unpredictability to transform characters, the realms that are made within the fairy tales is just what makes it a fairy tale.

Personally, I'm more of the medieval renaissance kind of person. I love hearing the styles of clothing and weapons that are made up for that time period. Even when I visited the Blarney castle in Ireland I felt almost in a fairy tale... Yeah, it wasn't one but if I put my mind to I could see the various things that used to be there as well as the people who would walk around those halls and walkways as I did. It held that mysterious, stopping time kind of feeling.

Not to mention, the style of fairy tales you can come up with as well. I've seen some beautiful artwork that deals with the mysterious realm of fairy tales. You can have the character be an animal yet still lives an ordinary life like a human or you can have a person that is transformed into a mystical being or just transported to a different realm. It all depends on how you want to view your fairy tale.