A while back me and a friend of mine were having a conversation of about what kindof stories people remember. We shot off on many tangents and one was a very interesting one… We reached fantasy stories and I said that fantasy never really excited me. He on the other hand said that fantasy was his favorite genre. I told him that I felt that fairy tales were hard to relate to… he went ahead and corrected my misconception.
As he pointed out, possibly the most relate able to story to anyone is that of Cinderella. It has a bigger impact than say Snow white, Rapunzel, Beauty and the beast ect. That got me thinking, this story does have a very human factor to it compared to say other fantasy stories. We began to wonder why that was the case…
Was it because that in a general level we are all hoping for a better future where it ends with a nice “lived happily ever after”, or maybe we feel that we need some sort of positive magic in our lives to turn it more beautiful? We could not reach anywhere with the discussion and thats when i thought I could bring it up here :)
Wonder what it is that makes something relate able to us…