Fairy tales are also full of rhetoric, however these rhetorical devices are much less obvious. Fairy tales didn't always start out as cheerful musicals with a "happily ever after" ending. Originally fairy tales were much darker. The Brothers Grimm were among the first to compile a wide variety of fairy tales and write them down in one book, Children's and Household Tales (12). Their first copy was as true to the originals as they could keep it, however with each edition published, Wilhelm Grimm refined the stories (13). Walt Disney continued this tradition, giving society the versions of fairy tales everyone is familiar with (13). The evolution of these fairy tales caused shifts in rhetorical devices such as the author's purpose, the tone of the stories, and parallelism found between the originals and the adaptations. However, many common themes and motifs remained the despite the fact that many of the stories evolved over time. Themes such as parental loss and abusive stepmothers are still laced within the stories, new and old, while motifs like the damsel in distress or true love's kiss have been internalized into society through repetition. Fairy tales are pretty universally known, and provide excellent methods through which important life lessons and morals can be taught, no matter how the stories themselves change.