 Locke explained this process through a theory he labelled the "association of ideas"; the ideas that children connect, such as fear and darkness, are stronger than those ideas adults associate, therefore instructors, according to Locke, must carefully consider what they expose children to early in life.Modelled on Madame de Genlis's "Adèle et Théodore" (1782) and "Tales of the Castle" (1785), both of which have frame stories and a series of inset moral tales, "Original Stories" narrates the re-education of two young girls, fourteen-year-old Mary and twelve-year-old Caroline, by a wise and benevolent maternal figure, Mrs.