The Truth of the Fairy World Many parents, usually teenagers with their children, have often announced that they should "get their heads out of the clouds and return to reality". This assumption is based solely on the concept that reality is better. Perhaps there is wisdom in this recurring parental motto as it pertains to career, education, or financial decisions. However, this maxim may be the single killer of many potential beautiful ideas, works of art, stories or inventions. Oscar Wilde, in his “The Decay of Lies” claims: All bad art arises from a return to Life and Nature… The moment Art gives up its imaginative medium, it gives up everything… The only beautiful things are those that do not they concern us... Life goes away faster than Realism, but Romanticism is always ahead of Life. ()This is an argument in favor of an aesthetic approach in viewing art, but I argue that this point simply transcends fine art paintings and invades all aspects of the humanities. The particular medium through which I wish to explore Wilde's aesthetic philosophy is fairy-tale literature. The best of literature are the pieces that transport the reader away from our physical dimension, into another world. In the following essay I will demonstrate the superiority of the “fairy world” in literature, compared to realistic fiction. How it is the fairy world that increases 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. simply allow. They are the purest expression of the human psyche. Bypassing cultural prejudices, fairy tales become a universal and timeless means of communication... in the middle of the paper......n clouds that our heads will find greater fulfillment. If the ultimate argument against the fairy world is that it is all a game world, that the true return to life comes through realism, and that the ideals it contains are simply invented, it would seem to me that invented things are much more important than real things. (Lewis 182)Works CitedLewis, 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