Fairy Tales and conditional joy.

 

The basic 'Christian' lesson of fairy tales is contained is referred to as: the “Doctrine of Conditional Joy”:

For You may live in a palace of gold and sapphire, or ‘You may live happily with the King’s daughter, however such Fairy Tale visions always hangs upon a veto. i.e the universal reminds us that the universal Good to which we gain access is no less contingent,that it could have been otherwise

:“If Cinderella says:‘How is it that I must leave the ball at twelve?’her godmother might answer with the veto ‘How is it that you are going there till twelve?’