You tell this kind of things to kids and they sit there nodding and, "Yup, that's fair, absolutely! Wicked people should be punished!" And adults are sort of going, "Yes, well, nobody's entirely.um, can sort of see her point of view and that's really rather cruel." Kids have no problems with "Hansel & Gretel's" Witch being pushed into the oven, nor with the idea that the Witch has been fattening Hansel up to eat him. It would be very hard to give an adult a story like the original version of "Snow White," where you wind up with the Queen being invited to the wedding and then forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she burned and her heart exploded and she dies in agony. adults are much more morally equivocal than kids. The stuff that you hand to children, which if you hand to an adult. I think children have very, very clear ideas about good and evil. I think because children respond so well to that stuff. Why does most children's literature have a dark side? Neil Gaiman, screenplay for "MirrorMask."
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