Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-28486044-20160727075112/@comment-25936766-20160728022617

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote:

-The Grimm are more a reason for Hunters to exist then anything really cautionary or intrinstic to the story. If there's a cautionary thing here, its that " the evil inside humanity is more deadly than any outside force."

-Those tales were the protaganist disobeys someone in authority over them and recieve punishment for it are primarily cautionary tales, even if the punishment happens years later -That is partially the reason: To justify why Hunters do what they do. I'm just saying, it can also fit into cautionary fairy tales. "Do not give in to negative emotions. Avoid hate. Avoid violence. Make love, not war. (Or else Grimm will kill everyone)". When put like that, it does walk the same line.

-Yes, but then there are the fairy tales that are supposedly cautionary, yet the characters never actually receive a real punishment.

For example, LRRH: LRRH was walking towards her grandma's house in the forest, went a bit off-road, met a wolf, spoke to it, told it what she was going to do, and it used that to locate her grandma, eat her, pretend to be her, and then eat LRRH. So far, it seems like she got her punishment......

....Then comes the Hunter Ex Machina who finds the wolf asleep, not long after, cuts open it's belly, releases the not-even-digested grandma and girl, then they fill it's belly with rocks and sew it close. So the bad guy dies painfully, everybody else lives happily everafter. So, where's the punishment?

See, that is what I mean. Fairy tales are not cautionary by nature, were never meant to be, they only got a supposed aesop pasted on it. They were just tales, even the so-called "cautionary tales" were not supposed to be anything cautionary. "Don't go into the forest", "don't go off the road", "don't talk to strangers", those are messages people started applying to fairy tales long after they were made, messages not present originally.