Final Paper Overview

After much deliberation I settled on focusing my paper around the role of fairy tales in various pieces of media. Fairy Tales have been apart of our culture for sometime and played a huge role in our childhood's. There are many pieces of regular literature with fairy tales, but what I have noticed in recent years is the liberty being taken with re-writing or someone putting their own spin on these classic stories. After researching fairy tales I discovered that many of the stories we love such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty are actually much darker then the stories we have been told. Just look at all the Disney movies that are centered around princes, princesses, and other famous characters. I have noticed a trend in video games and interactive fiction of an involvement of fairy tale characters. Many of these games have taken on more adult rated content with adult themes not suitable for children. Two games that exemplify this claim is the Wolf Among Us and The Path. Some themes in the role playing game the Wolf Among Us are violence, murder, rape, infidelity, spousal abuse, and many more issues. These more adult interpretations are actually staying more true to the source materiel than the Disney versions. In this paper I am going to focus on the importance and influence of fairy tales in culture; Also, why authors and creators are constantly creating their own spins on these older stories with different viewpoints of classic characters. Below is the more comical, but adult conversations in the first episode of The Wolf Among Us.