Excerpt coming from Research Newspaper:
Press presentations of justified violencemay also change the belief that violent actions are wrong, motivating the development of pro-violence attitudes. [] Violence is definitely acceptable since it is not real, therefore “victims” do not seriously suffer (Funk et al. 26).
Given this serious – and well-documented – effect of actually imaginary physical violence, writers and readers of fairy tales should exercise care that their depictions of violence are genuinely relevant to the moralistic concerns at stake. The “blood in the shoe” has to be justified; in any other case, it simply desensitizes the (often juvenile) reader to not any real edge.
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