Proper Introduction

As mentioned in the last blog post, I realised I needed to have a proper introduction that explains to the reader what the essay is about. 

Fairy tales first made their way into popular culture many years ago, the earliest stories dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and are continuing to work their magic to this day. They have been endlessly re-worked and re-written over time but have never ceased to entice the hearts and minds of many, be it old or young, male or female. This timelessness is a result of their ability to evolve and respond to current cultural affairs and issues within society and it is this very fact that makes them so valuable. This essay aims to explore the specifics of how and why this has come to be and the reason individuals such as poet Wystan Hugh Auden have considered fairy tales “next to the Bible in importance” (Haase, 1993). 

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