Characters in fairy tales are easy to identify with, yet are not highly individualized. Perrault does not describe the personality or appearance of his characters in detail; the heroes and heroines of his stories can easily stand for countless other young men and women.
Perrault ended his fairy tales with morals, but almost all critics feel that these lessons are not essential to his stories. In this edition the morals have been included in an appendix.
With the exception of "Little Red Ridinghood," the stories tend to end happily, with good triumphing over.....
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