【金句】G.K. Chesterton - Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist...

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

童話故事並不是告訴孩子們龍存在。 孩子們已經知道龍存在。 童話故事告訴孩子們，龍可以被殺死。

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.

因此，童話故事並非導致孩子們產生恐懼，或者任何形式的恐懼；童話故事並沒有給孩子關於邪惡或醜陋的想法；這些已經在孩子心中了，因為它們已經存在於這個世界中。 童話故事沒有給孩子他最初的妖怪概念。 童話故事給孩子的，是他第一次清晰地認識到可以戰勝妖怪的可能性。 嬰兒自從擁有想像力以來，就非常瞭解龍的存在。 童話故事為他提供的，是一個聖喬治來殺死龍。