I was fascinated by reading fairy tales, especially the ones by the
             Brothers Grimm. By analyzing them according to the protagonists, settings ,
             themes, and occurrences I have noticed many similarities in the fairy
             I found the protagonists of all the stories to be mystical and
             mysterious. Many of the protagonists tended to be characters such as Kings
             and Queens and other authority figures. Perhaps this was so the children
             could look up to them. Second of all I noticed that there was always
             something unique about the protagonists that made them different from
             people in the ordinary world. I read a variety of protagonists such as
             hunters, poor peasants, a lazy girl, three little men, and a Miller and his
             wife. I did not read one fairy tale that had a plain and ordinary type of
             In the way of settings I again noticed that most of the settings were
             peculiar in some way or another. Rarely would I read of a setting of an
             ordinary place such as what you and I may live in. they always had
             something mystical about them. Only places that children dreamed about were
             used. These were places such as palaces, and Kingdoms, mystical forests or
             a witches castle. One story was of a lonely cabin located in a mystical
             forest. I suppose places like these were used to provoke the children
             Many of the themes I found to be quite common. I quite often found them
             to be about a boy and a girl and them getting together. There was also
             usually some sort of a competition were the protagonist would win and get
             the girl. The boy and the girl were often a prince and a princess. In
             almost all fairy tales the protagonist was put in a situation where there
             was a problem. In Cinderellas case she had no money and three wicked step
             sisters. How was she to get the prince to notice her. In Snow white, her
             beauty was the problem as the wicked witch grew jealous. In some of the
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