International Research journal of Management Sociology & Humanities
( ISSN 2277 - 9809 (online) ISSN 2348 - 9359 (Print) ) New DOI : 10.32804/IRJMSH
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DESIRE AND PUNISHMENT: A MORAL READING OF GRIMMS’ “RAPUNZEL”
2 Author(s): DR. RAJESH KUMAR SINGH, KAMDA SINGH DEO
Vol - 9, Issue- 11 , Page(s) : 373 - 376 (2018 ) DOI : https://doi.org/10.32804/IRJMSH
The fairy tales began as wonder tales majorly challenging the imagination of a child by inducing magic in the story. These wonder tales had no allegiance to morality and were essentially oral tales with their supernatural workings that produced a sense of admiration, fear, awe, and enchantment as it exposed the child to a world where anything could happen at any time. In the late Medieval Period, wonder tales, initially told by peasants, entered elite households because of its religious affiliations as the priests incorporated these tales in religious sermons to teach a moral lesson. Later, during the Renaissance, the function of fairy tales underwent a massive change when it was brewed in the French Elite society that was critical of the amoral nature of the wonder tales.