of life to produce for profit

To clarify this point, let us look at the characteristics distinguishing folklore from literature:

and expansion of capitalist industry. Therefore, the bourgeois establishment had to make it seem that the fairy tales were immoral, trivial, useless and harmful if an affirmative culture of commodity values supportive of elite interests were to take root in the public sphere. In the early stages of capitalism, the imagination had to be fought and c

The resistance at first to the fairy tale during the Enlightenment stemmed from the tales' implicit and explicit critique of utilitarianism. The emphasis on play, alternative forms of living, pursuing dreams and daydreams, experimentation, striving for the golden age—this stuff of which fairy tales were (and are) made challenged the rationalistic p

necessity to change them.12

languages during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to indicate the ideological separation of “high” and “low” culture and discrimination against fantasy.

fairy tales themselves were

of life to produce for profit

fairy tales themselves were