What are Fractured Fairy Tales?

Answer 1

Fractured Fairy Tales are modern versions of traditional fairy tales that are humorous and often parody the original story. They may involve unexpected twists, alternate endings, or modern settings that poke fun at the traditional fairy tale tropes. They are designed to entertain and provide a fresh take on classic tales.

Answer 2

The short answer is - take an existing story and "break it" by changing it somehow.

Following is a list of possibilities (and of course you can use other pre-fractured stories as a guide. Use one or all:

1) Tell the story from another point of view. Your own, for example - though this might make the story more a re-telling than a fracture.

2) Combine stories. Don't be shy. Cinderella might work well with "Mein Kampf."

3) Cross genres - as in 2, use other stories - but why not look at the Classics? Authors like Horatio Alger, Herman Melville, Jack London, Willa Cather and Alan Greenspan.

4) Change names, gender, age, locations - maybe even everything? (That would be another tale altogether (don;t tell anyone I told you).

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Answer 3

First you come up with an idea. It doesnt have to be very elaborate yet, just an idea about what your writing. Next you come up with characthers and a plot. Finnaly you start writing, it really depends on if you can think of the ideas, not the grammar or anything else. Two great examples of my writing are Life as We Knew It and The Dead and the Gone. By me, Susan Beth Pfeffer

Answer 4

Some characteristics are:

• heavy comical element
• expand the story
• change the point of view
• change the main character
• change the setting
• Don't live happily ever after!

Answer 5

Make it a bad ending that will leave readers in awe. Not too bad, but one that goes with the book and symbolizes the struggle the character will go through AFTER the last page is flipped. Do this without leaving the reader hanging.

Answer 6

"Fractured Fairy Tales" are common fairy tales that have been reinvented with a satirical or sardonic twist upon the common elements found in the original fairy tale .