La ce sînt bune poveştile? cu G. K. Chesterton

„FAIRY TALES, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey.

The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon. Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” ~GKC: Tremendous Trifles.”

Artwork: Girl With Book – The Book Of Fairy Tales, by Paul Beckert (1856 – 1922, German). From Children in Art History, http://on.fb.me/M8ah43

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2 Responses to La ce sînt bune poveştile? cu G. K. Chesterton

  1. in aceeasi idee J. R. R. Tolkein incerca sa ii vorbeasca despre Dumnezeu bunului sau prieten C.S. Lewis: „behind these myths there is a true Myth, a true Story that really exists. The True Myth, the Real Joy is the original shout, so to speak, and the stories and myths of human making are only echoes.”

    In acel moment C.S. Lewis era ateu insa Tolkein nu s-a lasat iar dupa cativa ani Lewis a ajuns la concluzia: „“A man’s physical hunger does not prove that that man will get any bread: he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man’s hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating, and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist.” In other words, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

    (dupa o biografie de John Piper)

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