Introduction:It's impossible for me to say that I know nothing about fairy tales, but as far as I know, there's nothing I don't love! Between the knight in shining armor, the damsel in distress, and the infamous rescue scene, you can't help but hope to one day find your Prince Charming! Let's be honest, we love to hate fairy tales, they are so incredibly unrealistic with the romance, the happy ending, the prince and princess, but we all live to have something close to that annoyingly perfect happy ending. Between “Beauty and the Beast”, “Cinderella”, “The Little Mermaid” and “Snow White” one thing that is continuous in all these films is that fabulous and good character and that terribly bad character, and the suspense that makes us wonder what obstacles they will have to endure to get that “fairytale ending” we are all secretly jealous of. “If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future” (Danielle Steel). We unconsciously live vicariously through fairy tales, we want to escape from the real world in the hope of a different reality, and we truly believe that the grass is greener on the other side. Fairy tales are something we go from never having enough of, to being "too old" to, to being old enough to appreciate the most beautiful aspects that we would like to one day become our reality. Unlike our real life that we live minute by minute, day by day, year by year, with ups and downs and with a million possibilities of outcomes, fairy tales always remain the same, with the minutes of reading and the intoxicating words that they make you cry, laugh and dream. The importance of fairy tales will live on forever, just like the authors who wrote them. The research: through...... middle of paper... ms, and promotes a sense of hope. In society, fairy tales create a common denominator between races, religions and unite humans in our sense of hope and our desire for the final ending of the fairy tale. Works Cited Bottingheimer, Ruth “Fairytales” Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood History: New York.Fairytales “Find Grimm's Tale” web 15, February 2000. Gale factBettelheim, Bruno “The Importance of Outsourcing.” The uses of the spell. The meaning and importance of fairy tales. New York: Vintage Books 1976Bettelhem, Bruno “The Child's Need for Magic”. The uses of the spell. The meaning and importance of fairy tales. New York: vintage books 1976 The Little Mermaid, dir. Ron Clements, John Musker. For. Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Pat Carroll, Christopher Daniel Barnes. Walt Disney Pictures 1989 VCRRobbins, personal interview by Terri 3, February 2014