ABSTRACT
Fairy tales are born out of dissatisfaction, frustration, and discontent. We seek to make the best out of the negative in our lives, to negate the negative through magic, to use our imagining creatively to play with forces that distress us. We wish, dream, desire, search, struggle, and lie to make our lives more bearable than they are. More than any other oral or literary genre, the fairy tale embodies the Utopian gestus of our lives through the wish. By gestus I mean the way our behavior, actions, and thinking gesticulate toward one goal, and this goal is a place that we do not know concretely. It is no place and yet a better place. It is a place we know intuitively, and we call it Utopia.
