In fairy tales, so many incomprehensible things happen at once that chaos is easily bred. Asymmetry works well in the realm of fairy tales, allowing for clear distinctions. Especially in fairy tales, injustice is always asymmetrical, fueling and driving the action.
A rapid action is a fundamental parameter of a good fairy tale and media narratives. Advertisers appreciate this. From their point of view, the direction of perspective doesn’t matter. Are there any intuitive laws, gravitations, consequences of the prohibition of bilocation, non-identity of good and evil? Only the endlessly repeatable sequentiality counts, like in a supply chain.
This has even reached Elon Musk, apparently.
Immersing oneself in fairy-tale, in fantasy, is one of the simple ways to survive the realities of sharp, open conflict. Do you know any non-fairy-tale wars?
Even if you’re unfortunate enough to know them, you’d prefer to forget. We need fairy tales.
By the way, it’s worth revisiting the somewhat forgotten readings of Bruno Bettelheim (‘The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales’).
Written by an author who sat in a concentration camp in 1938, published in 1977, when all adults knew that the most important fairy tales are usually two, antagonistic, agonistic, and keep each other in check until the very end.
Of course, the hero (should be only one) is always just.
The somewhat clichéd contemporary iconography of Justice (Iustita) prefers to show her at work. Weighing every case in one hand’s scale.
The head isn’t particularly needed for such work, and after all, Justice, being just, sees nothing, her eyes covered. The presence of stars is a nod to an ancient tradition, indicating that Iustita is one of the elemental forces shaping both the mortal world and its unreachable, highest realms, located high above stellatum – the sphere of fixed stars.
Today, stars most often symbolize a political community, state, ethnos. Their color, arrangement have no special significance.
In extreme cases, two stars are enough.