These Magic Moments
Growing up, young girls always visualize and plan their fairy tale weddings, taking scenes from Sleeping Beauty, Snow White or other glorious weddings and adding their own special touch. Some would think the older one gets the less they think about the fairy tales they heard as bed time stories, but this is not so. Life reflects in one way or another the same stories heard as a child and these fairy tales influence our actions in everyday circumstances. And they lived happily ever after. This phrase concludes so many fairy tales heard as a young child, and created a desire for life to end up happily ever after. From childbirth, children are read to from books that explain everyday life but with glamour and glory. This becomes the basis for how children view the world. They look for the magic in difficult situations and sometimes believe it comes true when the explanation given is not comprehendible, such as Santa Claus. Everyone knows as a little child there is an element of magic in Santa's work but the older one becomes the magic fades. The everyday life of a child is filled with magic and imagination, from tea parties to creating a scene with Barbie and Ken. These modern scenes of role-playing are an interpre
In today's society, older children are still affected by fairy tales. When Princess Diana was married, her wedding was viewed to the world as a fairy tale wedding. There is a recent commercial with Sarah Ferguson where she tells her daughter a story of a young prince on a horse sweeping her off her feet. The twist to Sarah Ferguson's tale is the reality in the end of the commercial. She explains the prince not being there forever and the young maiden being forced to care for herself. Although a jolt into reality, this commercial still plays with the fairy tale dream, while keeping grounded in reality. This demonstrates, in a way, the need to keep ones feet on the ground when they do dream. Although older children and some adults may view their lives or a situation in their lives as fairy tale like, they often just rationalize the situation, good or bad. The magic is gone in a sense, even though Barbie continues to mold young girls' ideas and fairy tales are still read as bedtime stories. The older one gets, the magic fades, but the element is still there and occasionally looked for, and when it is called upon, modern fairy tales happen. Bettelheim, Bruno. The Child's Need for Magic. "Literary These fai
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