You can hardly begin to describe the pathos which in fact is already there in a room accommodating thirty children. Thirty life fates. And in the long story hours the children indirectly become aware of this. Let us look a little more closely at a few of the things a fairy tale is. The need to inject utilitarianism into fairy tales is one of the great blocks to understanding.
Folk tales exercise their reality and their relevance in a far deeper area of the soul.
The most common interpretation is that the fairy tales show us how things go well for the good and badly for the evil. And this, of course, is a bald-faced lie. Actually the fairy tales don't conceal this fact, either. And it is at precisely this point that the textbook wisdom ends. For at this point occurs the miracle.