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  <tabline>Themes of Fairy Tales</tabline>
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  <entry>
    <title>Brothers and Sisters Helping Each Other</title>
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    <issued>2026-02-09T09:24:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2026-02-09T09:24:33+09:00</modified>
    <created>2026-02-09T09:24:33+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Brothers and Sisters Helping Each Other


One of the most common themes in fairy tales is the sibling relationship, particularly the brother-sister dynamic. Of course, all sibling relationships are...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Dilemma</title>
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    <issued>2024-09-25T20:44:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-09-25T20:50:22+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-09-25T20:44:23+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Crucial Dilemma in a Fairy Tale

One of the most important elements in every good story is a dilemma for at least one of the characters. Fairy tales are not an exception to the rule. In fact, we ca...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Second Chance as a Fairy Tale Theme</title>
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    <issued>2024-08-27T06:49:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-08-27T06:49:48+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-08-27T06:49:48+09:00</created>
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    <dc:subject>== select ==</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The Importance of the Second Chance


One important recurring fairy tale theme we often (as far as I know, always) forget is a second chance. Second and even third, fourth, etc. chances are most me...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Responsibility</title>
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    <issued>2024-07-23T00:49:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-07-23T00:49:18+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-07-23T00:49:18+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>Fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Theme of Responsibility and Irresponsibility in Fairy Tales


Responsibility and responsibility are important them in classic fairy tales. After all, they are essentially stories about growing up, ...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Sibling Rivalry</title>
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    <issued>2024-06-08T08:16:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-06-08T08:16:33+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-06-08T08:16:33+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Sibling Rivalry as a Fairy Tale Theme

Fairy tales are notorious for rivalry among siblings (including stepbrothers and stepsisters), often ending in blood. Sibling rivalry is a part of everyday li...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Dead Mother</title>
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    <issued>2024-05-21T07:40:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-05-21T07:40:54+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-05-21T07:40:54+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Dead Mother as a Theme in Fairy Tales

Death of the mother of one or more main characters in the story is a common theme in classic fairy tales. For starters, we have to define our focus: the death...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Broken Promise (Given Word)</title>
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    <issued>2024-03-18T09:47:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-03-18T09:48:48+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-03-18T09:47:36+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Importance of Broken Promise or Given Word



A broken promise is one of the major themes in classic fairy tales. When writers and editors realized the immense potential of fairy tales as education...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Birds</title>
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    <issued>2024-03-03T21:52:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-03-03T21:52:16+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-03-03T21:52:16+09:00</created>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Birds in Fairy Tales




A few birds were already mentioned in the post about animal helpers. Birds in fairy tales can serve other purposes as well. Hans Christian Andersen, for instance, used a ni...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Cruel Punishment</title>
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    <issued>2024-01-08T10:45:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-01-08T10:45:01+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-01-08T10:45:01+09:00</created>
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    <dc:subject>== Select ==</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Classic fairy tales are expected to end with the proverbial ever after. Yet we should not forget that in the majority of cases we deal with a fight between protagonist(s) and antagonist(s). In gene...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Sleep</title>
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    <issued>2024-01-04T07:14:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-01-04T07:14:54+09:00</modified>
    <created>2024-01-04T07:14:54+09:00</created>
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    <dc:subject>== Selection ==</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The Theme of Sleep


Sleep is a recurring theme in classic fairy tales where it plays different roles. It can trigger important actions or serve as a medium between different realities. We'll start...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Cannibalism</title>
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    <issued>2023-12-31T07:55:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2023-12-31T07:55:32+09:00</modified>
    <created>2023-12-31T07:55:32+09:00</created>
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    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Cannibalism is a recurring theme in classic fairy tales. In some cases it's a leading theme, in others we often overlook it. Here are a few examples of this gory element which is very rarely presen...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Animal Helpers</title>
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    <issued>2023-12-23T06:26:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2023-12-23T18:55:03+09:00</modified>
    <created>2023-12-23T06:26:30+09:00</created>
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    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Animal Helpers


Animals play very important roles in many fairy tales. They often provide precious advice or offer crucial help to protagonists, in some cases, they even become more important than...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Incompetent Father</title>
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    <issued>2023-10-24T06:48:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-03-18T09:54:14+09:00</modified>
    <created>2023-10-24T06:48:59+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Theme of Incompetent Father in Fairy Tales


We have already discussed the theme of absent fathers in fairy tales where we provided several examples as well. Absence is not the only issue related t...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Absent Father</title>
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    <issued>2023-10-23T01:06:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2023-10-23T01:06:24+09:00</modified>
    <created>2023-10-23T01:06:24+09:00</created>
    <author><name>themesoffairytales</name></author>
    <dc:subject>fairy tales</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[Absent Father

Absent father is a very common theme in fairy tales. We have several situations without a father, which means that the main character of the story doesn't have the protection of a tr...]]></content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Themes of Fairy Tales</title>
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    <issued>2023-10-23T00:29:00+09:00</issued>
    <modified>2024-03-18T09:51:16+09:00</modified>
    <created>2023-10-23T00:29:33+09:00</created>
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    <dc:subject>未分類</dc:subject>
    <content type="html"><![CDATA[The Most Important Recurring Themes of Fairy Tales


There are thousands and thousands of fairy tales, but all of them can be grouped into some recurring characteristics - themes. We can find a lot...]]></content>
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