I am confused that why did parents want to tell the stories published by Grimm brothers when the book was no ordinarally wrote for children? The stories popular among servants and middle-class adults were not created for children, so why did parents treat it as a children story instead of a book for adults?
1. For a very long time, children were NOT treated very much differently from adults. They just shared stories with adults. What we find inappropriate for children today were considered acceptable and even recommendable to children in the past.
2. Few books were created for children exclusively and parents simply had little choice when it comes to what reading material they could find for their children, that is, IF their children could read.
3. At the time when the Grimm brothers first published their tales, it was received poorly by the public because it was created for a scholarly purpose. But gradually the situation changed as the rising middle-class eagerly demanded stories for their children. They found Grimm's tales interesting as they were, but objected to much of its "inappropriate" content. The Grimm brothers then took their criticism and subsequently revised the stories to meet the market's need. They added a lot of moralization, for instance, which pleased the parents at the time. That's also why the book's popularity steadily grew in the following decades. But again, these stories might still appear unsuitable for today's children according to our standard.
So to sum up, parents chose Grimm's tales for their children first of all because they had fewer choices than we do today, and secondly, the stories met their needs because the authors had revised them accordingly.
1. For a very long time, children were NOT treated very much differently from adults. They just shared stories with adults. What we find inappropriate for children today were considered acceptable and even recommendable to children in the past.
2. Few books were created for children exclusively and parents simply had little choice when it comes to what reading material they could find for their children, that is, IF their children could read.
3. At the time when the Grimm brothers first published their tales, it was received poorly by the public because it was created for a scholarly purpose. But gradually the situation changed as the rising middle-class eagerly demanded stories for their children. They found Grimm's tales interesting as they were, but objected to much of its "inappropriate" content. The Grimm brothers then took their criticism and subsequently revised the stories to meet the market's need. They added a lot of moralization, for instance, which pleased the parents at the time. That's also why the book's popularity steadily grew in the following decades. But again, these stories might still appear unsuitable for today's children according to our standard.
So to sum up, parents chose Grimm's tales for their children first of all because they had fewer choices than we do today, and secondly, the stories met their needs because the authors had revised them accordingly.
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