I'm surprised I haven't considered the difference before. I think fairy tales have to have some typical characters in them, not necessairly fairies but there is only a limited range. Fairy tales are generally much shorter than a full length modern fantasy.
Humans don't have magic in fairy tales. Faerie tale by Feist isn't a fairy tale though. Fantasy and Fairy Tales show a peculiar bit of historical turnabout. The fantasy genre grew out of fairy tales long ago, but our modern classification system subordinates fairy tales to fantasy because there is more fantasy literature out there. I will add only one point to what the worthies above me have already said: Fairy tales tend to center around a person or persons read: homo sapiens and how the world physical and otherwise around them affects them.
In fairy tales, the main character rarely gets to be proactive -- the story only shows how they can react to their dilemma. I would venture a guess that this is partially due to how we humans viewed the big, bad world in ancient times when we had so much less control over our surroundings.
This is a great idea for a thread. I talked to my daughter about this yesterday for a bit. We agreed with what you people had already said. She also suggested that Fairy Tales usually tie up all the story in a neat and tidy way, almost always happily, while Fantasies are more likely to leave some issues open-ended, and often some of good guys have unhappy endings.
I like this discussion, never really thought about it before, good question Seanie! I think fairy tales are more formulaic too, following more basic plots than modern fantasy. Fairy tales are more concerned with situations rather than with character development.
But then I found this quote: "Faerie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted. I used to have this book but have long misplaced it, but I think the book included 'On Faery Stories' or some such thing.
I forget the gist, and I don't remember if he really distinguished between fantasy which may not have been a 'genre' term in those days but he was VERY definite on the essential elements of 'faery stories'.
I'm sure someone can find out more Sur la Lune website has a whole section on defining fairy tale. The excerpt I like is this one. But, and this is crucial, it is a story that happens in the past tense, and a story that is not tied to any specifics.
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Discuss and analyze how and to what ends fantasy and reality are intertwined in stories you have studied.
In this essay, we will discuss how magical realism uses elements of real and of magic to create the literary style. At first, we will try to give a background of what magic realism, where it comes from, and how a story can be labelled as such. Fairy tales have been told for centuries and have been used to portray the conflict of sexual politics over time. The author used several fantasy techniques, and they are the storyline conflict, thematic conlfict, and the realistic setting, to a fantasy setting, and returning to the realistic setting.
Next, A Wrinkle in Time included many unique characters that were all essential to the book. They are Sandy and Dennys, the three Mrs. The imaginary setting of Camazotz was very important to the plot because of everything being unrealistic and Meg having that as a disadvantage, the futuristic technology, giving Meg another disadvantage, and finally having everyone be the same, giving Meg one more disadvantage when she was on Camazotz.
One of the most common types of stories that is told all throughout fiction, and sometimes non-fiction, is the battle between good and evil. Growing up, people began with reading stories about the prince saving the princess from monsters and villains, but as they grew older the fantasies died off, but the plot of good versus evil continued on. When we stop and dissect a work of literature, we may find that its meaning may not be quite as clear as we had originally believed. Fairy tales have powerful but subtle meanings that are as magical as the stories themselves.
Double meanings can become more apparent through close examination of the language, the form and content of dialogue within the text, and variations between different versions of the same fairy tale. When these strategies are applied to the well known fairy tale Snow White, it becomes increasingly obvious that there is more to the story than an evil stepmother.
Fantasy is excellent for metaphors and parallels - one of its premises is to talk about issues of our society while discussing something that is apparently the furthest away from it.
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