What are the characteristics of Grimm's fairy tales?

Grimm's Fairy Tales is a typical European folk fairy tale with extensive information, which reflects some universal life themes such as justice and evil, kindness and cruelty, honesty and hypocrisy, wisdom and ignorance, courage and cowardice, diligence and laziness.

It spreads to every corner of the world with its unique literary style; Its influence transcends national boundaries and times. In the colorful and magnificent fairy tale garden of the fantasy world, Grimm's fairy tales are like beautiful little treasure boxes, which make people sleep in dreams and enter the fantasy kingdom from generation to generation.

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Grimm's fairy tales have a wide range of contents and diverse genres. Besides fairy tales, there are folk stories, jokes and fables. Among them, stories can be roughly divided into three categories:

First, stories about ghosts and gods, such as Cinderella, Snow White, Princess Rose, Prince Frog, Dwarfs and Old Shoemakers, monsters in glass bottles, etc. These stories are tortuous, thrilling and unpredictable.

The second is anthropomorphic fairy tales featuring animals, such as Tom and Jerry, wolf and the seven little kids and The Golden Bird. The animals in these stories are full of human feelings and animal characteristics, vivid and lovely.

Third, stories about daily life, such as happy Hans and three brothers. The characters in these stories are hardworking, simple, humorous and lovely.

Grimm's fairy tales contain profound moral themes and condense the simple view of good and evil in19th century. The images in Grimm's fairy tales can be roughly divided into three categories: non-human animal images, semi-human animal images and human ethical images. Children are another form of the trinity, which is the trinity of beast, half-man, half-beast and man. These three images develop and change in chronological order.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything, and they sometimes show people directly in the trinity rather than in chronological order. Children have the shadow of primitive people and animals. When dealing with these images, the Brothers Grimm mostly wrote good and evil clearly, clearly in black and white, without gray areas, and exaggerated them to the extreme. This is obviously taking care of children's cognitive ability.

The story of Grimm's Fairy Tales allows children to experience the different life experiences and adventures of the protagonist in the story during reading, and these wonderful experiences are difficult for children to achieve in their daily environment. These rich and interesting fairy tales expand children's thinking world, sum up experiences and lessons in easy reading, arouse children's love and expectation for life, and stimulate the formation of children's view of good and evil.

The images in Grimm's fairy tales have distinct characteristics and obvious value orientation, showing the pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty, sympathizing with the weak, praising kindness and courage, satirizing hypocrisy and stupidity, and lashing greed and selfishness, which conforms to the consistent moral values of human society. This view of good and evil is expressed through intuitive and vivid images, which accords with children's psychological characteristics and understanding ability.

The ethics advocated by Grimm's fairy tales is conducive to cultivating children's views on right and wrong, good and evil, truth and falsehood, morality and even life. Grimm's fairy tales entrust the best in the world and reveal the hidden evil of mankind.

Guide children to make correct ethical choices and form a correct view of good and evil. The happy ending of the story builds a utopia full of hope and ideals for the children. Some scholars believe that "in fairy tales, falsehood, ugliness and goodness often coexist and conflict with each other, but the final outcome is basically positive."

On the whole, fairy tales show a process from conflict to harmony, from which we can see their pursuit of harmonious ethics in the real society. The images of nonhuman animals, half-human animals and human ethics in Grimm's fairy tales represent three stages of children's rational maturity.