The Truth of the Fairy WorldMany parents, usually teenagers, have often said that they should "get their heads out of the clouds and back to reality." This presupposition is based solely on the idea that reality is better. Perhaps there is some wisdom in this recurring parental motto when it concerns career, education or financial decisions. However, this maxim can be the one to kill many great ideas, works of art, stories or potential inventions. Oscar Wilde, in his “Decay of Lying,” states: All bad art comes from a return to life and nature…As soon as art abandons its imaginative medium, it abandons everything…The only beautiful things are those which do not concern us… Life goes on. faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always ahead of Life. ()This is an argument for an aesthetic approach in viewing art, but I argue that this point simply transcends fine art paintings and pervades all aspects of the humanities. The particular medium in which I wish to explore Wilde's aesthetic philosophy in fairy tale literature. The best literature is the works that take the reader away from our physical dimension to another world. In the following essay, I will demonstrate the superiority of the “fairy world” in literature over realistic fiction. How the fairy world improves understanding of the world around us, promotes progress and cultivates hope. First, the fairy world allows us to understand our world more deeply and understand its truths in a deeper and more complete way than reality would. just allow. They are the purest expression of the human psyche. Circumventing cultural prejudices, fairy tales become a universal and timeless means of communication...... middle of paper ...... and clouds in which our heads will find more fulfillment. If the ultimate argument against the fairy world is that it's all just a game world, that the real return to life is through realism, and that the ideals it contains are simply made up, it seems to me that invented things are much more important than real things. (Lewis 182) Works Cited Lewis, Clive Staples Of Other Worlds Essays and Stories, Orlando: Harvest Book House, 1975, PrintSan Juan, Epifanio The Art of Oscar Wilde, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1967, PrintTolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tree and Leaf, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1964, PrintChesterton, Gilbert Keith Orthodoxy, New York: Barnes and Noble Inc, 2007, PrintFranz, Marie-Louise von The Interpretation of Fairy Tale, Boston: Shambala, 1996, PrintLewis, Clive Staples Silver Chair , New York: Scholastic Inc, 1995, print