By 1653, he published his first book and soon after became a clerk after his brother bought a position as a tax official (Betts, xlviii). Around the age of fifteen, Perrault abandoned school with a friend and continued his education outside of the traditional education sphere. On January 12, 1628, Charles Perrault was born in Paris as one of twin boys, of which the other died only after a couple of months (Betts, xlviii).
From The History of Griselda to Cinderella to The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood to Donkey Skin, Perrault’s Contes are filled with morals that helped many young children, especially young girls, begin their social lessons by warning them of potential dangers to those who don’t follow society’s rules or by illustrating the rewards for those who do.ġ. The Narrator: From an Oral Telling to Paper Reiterating Of these fairy tales were Charles Perrault’s Contes-or Fairy Stories-where there are layers of depth and morals that taught children societal conduct.
The audience enjoys these fictions of the late 17th and early 18th century as an escape from reality and appreciates them as “tales as old as time.” However, if these fairy tales are looked beyond the surface–the current view and present knowledge of them–they can thus be viewed as much more than just what the mind can immediately read and absorb. They are viewed as entertainment and they are viewed from the basic perspective that they are just fairy stories without depth. In modern day, when people think about fairy tales, the mind immediately jumps to the books that were read to generations of children or as movies that many might have grown up with.
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