It is amazing what traditional literature is to different cultures and different generations. For example, The Brothers' Grimm's tales being cleaned up and made into nursery rhymes. To find out that the stories were originally a moral lesson and not just entertainment, puts a whole new spin on the versions we read now. Cleaning them up into nursery rhymes is contradictory. When I first learned the differences, I thought how twisted is it that we allow little girls to dream of Prince Charming. In the original versions of the story, even Price Charming wasn't always the real prince. Maybe part of the problem with allowing these children to believe in this facade is some children then can not cope with the reality.
I now think of retold stories as I do books made into movies. They to me are two separate works. I try not to compare books with movies because the movie generally does not live up to my expectations.
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