The Ethics of Elfland - Chesterton

To Alfred Chesteron, fairy tales are the things he most believed in as a child and the things he would say he still believed to this day. “They seem to me like entirely reasonable things. They are not fantasies: compare them with other things they are fantastic,” says Chesterton in his essay, The Ethics of Elfland. The concept of fairytales is nothing like an idea of an infantile, imaginary story-land that has no connection with reality; instead, fairytales can be used as a link to truth and reality. Coming into this class, I honestly thought fairytales were made for mothers to read to their children to keep them entertained, or for creepy old people.. but I learned that fairytales are, in fact, meant for the grown, intellectual community as well, though the prideful would deny that.