Report, if you have a problem with this page“ The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment on the civilizing process and to keep alive the possibility of miraculous change and a sense of wonderment. ”
Jack D. Zipes
From : Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture