Zipes and Fairytales

“Indeed, the world of the fairy tale has always been created as a counterworld to the reality of the storyteller by the storyteller and listeners. Together, storytellers and listeners have collaborated through intuition as well as conscious conception to form worlds filled with naive morality. Fundamental to the feel of a fairy tale is its moral pulse.” (Page 14)

This question seemed to hit me hard. It is interesting to think about the reality of fairy tales and how they’re not reality at all but merely something to create a “moral pulse.” This is something I learned quickly when I got older and lost childhood naivety. Both the storyteller and reader feel consumed with the idea of the “counter world” and the desire to create something better then what already exists. I found it interesting that there is a mix of intuition and consciousness in “worlds filled with naive morality”, yet we still desire to hear about something better to the point that it is unrealistic.