Comment by sebmellen
Very good point. I think most people would find it hard to grasp just how violent some of the Brothers Grimm stories are.
Very good point. I think most people would find it hard to grasp just how violent some of the Brothers Grimm stories are.
Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults.
Indeed, the Grimm brothers did not intend their books for children initially. They were supposed to be scholarly works, but no one seems to have told the people buying the books who thought they were tales for children and complained that the books weren't suitable enough for children.
Eventually they caved to pressure and made major revisions in later editions, dropping unsuitable stories, adding new stories and eventually illustrations specifically to appeal to children.
I am not talking about those storie, most stories have a bad character that does bad things, and that is in the end punished in a brutal way, With American AI you can't have a bad wolf that eats young goats or children unless he eats them maybe very lovingly, and you can't have this bad wolf punished by getting killed in a trap.
Many find it hard to grasp that punishment is earned and due, whether or not the punishment is violent.