Welcome to the Grimm Brothers' Forest. My name is Maureen and I am a senior at Rowan University. I am a Writing Arts major, and as part of an assignment in Writing, Research, and Technology, I have to create an information blog on a topic that is interesting to me. Without hesitation I knew exactly what I wanted to blog about. I love fairy tales, especially their darker side. My blog will explore and provide information not only on fairy tales that we have come to love in a traditional sense, but also those tales that are terrifying, painful, and as readers, make us shudder.
Like fairy tales, I want this blog to be a journey that celebrates a literary craft born of peasant storytelling among adults. Early fairy tales represent life as experienced by many central Europeans in a crude environment where children worked hard labor, suffered abuse, and were often abandoned.
With that said, let’s walk down the forest paths of Once upon a time…, Long ago and far away…, and In a distant land…, where our lives are mimicked with a mixture of vitality and variety in pursuit of our desires for passion, power, privilege, and riches. In pursuing these desires, the forest is full of evil doers who eat kids, turn children into animals, frogs into princes, and kings who want to marry their daughters. Through the power of enchantment, the forest paths will take us on a journey that is both magical and painful; yet, these paths ultimately lead us out of the forest and safely back home.
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