Fairy Tales... Absurd?

Today I started a book called "Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know." Now some view fairy tales with contempt, but are they truly absurd? I would argue not. Here is a quote from the book's introduction, "In the fairy story, men are not set entirely free from their limitation, but, by the aid of fairies, genii, giants and demons, they are put in command of unusual powers and make themselves masters of the forces of nature." It would seem to me that a fairy tale is simply a small attempt to imagine life almost as God originally intended. That is not to say that God planned for humans to count on the aid of genii, per se, but that rather humans acknowledge at least on some level, that we were intended to rule over creation. But that is not the full picture. We were also made to live under God's authority just as creation was to flourish under our authority. This is something that will never be fully obtained in this life, but we must still strive to live redemptively in our day to day lives. And in the mean time, maybe we'll even read some fairy tales again- with a different twist.