Are Myths Still Relevant Today

Are myths, folktales and fairy tales still relevant? Back in the day, myths, fairy tales, and folk tales were stories to teach lessons, but nowadays is it still something people look up to and is relevant to our society or is it just a story to scare children into behaving or learning their lesson? To this day it is still relevant and here's why. The story “ The Prince and the Pauper” by Mark Twain Dramatized by Joellen, is one story that some still read today and is relevant in today’s society. As in lines 65-68 Tom Canty (the Pauper) explained how he was beaten and mistreated by his father because he did not bring any food or money home for supper that night. As outrageous as it sounds it is still relevant to today’s society. Children are beaten as a sign of discipline, and it happens for lots of reasons. Even though people think that no one would ever be so idiotic or unintelligent for something like this to occur in homes. People will abuse their children if they don’t bring money for food, in an area of people it will most occur is where people that are homeless and starving need some of those basic things
Supposedly this is something that is really relevant. People can be greedy as in this Myth, and it gets pretty hectic in the world around because of it. Really there isn’t much of a difference between Greek Mythology and Our Society. This brings the poem “The Apple of Discord I” which is a parody of “From The Black Ship...” As in lines 21-23 when Goddess Eris (from another piece of Greek Mythology) calls other Goddesses “Vain” after all she is vain herself. She thinks that everything is their fault and it is never hers. Like Paris it seems like they think selfishly in the world around them. That shows how people in our society are with them always saying “I” or “Me,” but never “Us.” That shows just how similar people are to