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It's fun to look back at our investigation of fairy tales from this point (the end) in the course. Some of the factors that we discussed, like the idea of "ICK" have lasted throughout the course. Other interesting concepts, like the popularity of a female evil character, and the question of whether these stories were meant to have a moral aspect to teach children or not still linger in my mind. A new thought that has emerged since originally considering fairy tales is the more modern/recent approach to tell the classic story from the viewpoint of the "bad guy." I think this trend further illustrates an important aspect of fairy tales in particular, and stories in general- perspective is key. The tendency of "good" stories to have characters that the reader can identify with (an aspect that we discussed in class), is compounded when you realize that we might equally identify with the hero or the villian depending on how the tale is told.