A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Rapunzel Essay

In the story ‘’Young Goodman Brown” the protagonist lives in a Paritan community and is married to his wife Faith of 3 months. In the time period the story takes place there was much speculation about witch craft and the devil causing harm throughout the village.

Byron Howard and Nathan Greno’s Tangled and the Grimm Brother’s “Rapunzel” tell two similar but noticeably different versions of the story about a girl with long hair kept locked away in a tower. While Tangled presents a fairly lighthearted story, with some moments of despair, “Rapunzel” is told in a mostly despondent manner. This paper will attempt to discern the differences in themes by comparing and contrasting the routes taken the stories.

Just as they were making their way toward the shack out comes the witch. They carefully make their way up to her and not taking their eyes off of her. Not only was she a witch but a beautiful one, like no one they had ever seen. She

Love Filter When viewed through the Mythological Lens, the author Gregg Chamberlain, makes more than one connection to other stories, movies, novels etc... This story has so many connections, For example the Disney Movie “Aladdin”with the magic lamp, and the Movie “Tangled”the magic hair of Rapunzel. This story is about an Elderly Woman walking her Cat, Corif on the caravan trails, when both character humbled on a Jug and, after she checked the contents, once she opened the bottle, a green cloud formed and the man that was trapped in the jug offered the elderly woman a wish for freeing him from his prison. This story indicates at the end of the day, you will probably regret what you did at the start of the day. In this story “Love Filter”, an elderly woman who walks her cat to town to earn some money at a village.

Like all fairytales, Rapunzel has a history that extends far earlier than the 1800s when it first transcribed by brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. However, Rapunzel is a tale that continues to be re-written and re-interpreted even today. From the 1970s with the feminist revitalization of fairy tales to the early 2010s with Disney’s Tangled (2010), this timeless tale continues to engage its listeners. In 2015, Katie Kapurch of Texas State University revisited Rapunzel with an eye on its more recent modernizations. By starting with Anne Sexton’s poem “Rapunzel” from her 1971 collection Transformations, Kapurch analyzed the lesbian elements of the tale in order to examine the 21st century Tumblr culture that “ships” Tangled’s Rapunzel with Brave’s (2012) Merida.

Spreading blood all over there walls and doors, one women threw a chicken’s head to represent the aunt. When the villagers were in the house the destroyed everything in it; the kitchen was filled with shatter glasses from the bowls and throwing the pots. The women next door entered their house with a broom swiping the negative dust above Kingston’s families head giving those negative spirts and every one of the villagers looking down upon Kingston’s family. When leaving their house, the villagers made sure that they took sugar and oranges and rubbed it upon the selves; it made sure they weren’t cursed from the disgrace the family had. Some stole the rest of the bowls and clothes that were not broken or torn. It was time for the baby to arrive and the no name women gave birth to her new born baby in a pit. Kingston’s remembers the next morning going to the family well noticing that it was plugged and noticed that the aunt had killed herself and her newborn baby in the family well. Making sure that Maxine Kingston doesn’t say a word to her father, her mother repeats again to her to not say a word to her father or to

From classics such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey to modern day works such as Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, an archetype of the strong, powerful, independent, and masculine hero has emerged. In contrast to these characters, and similar ones found in many other works of fiction, which praise the classical, “masculine” hero, in his novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis portrays and celebrates the “feminine” spiritual hero and feminine qualities and their ability to triumph over the “masculine” hero. Before discussing the importance of the ‘feminine’ in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, first there should be a discussion of what is meant by the phrases “masculine” and “feminine.” These terms should

The human king sent his child of to the army, leaving him in the charge of the general of the king’s army. Both of the caretakers of the children were not kind to the babies. The witch had completed the first phase of her plan, what was left was the waiting game, she was sure the children would never return to their

The dad and mom of the family are worried about bad people coming into their house and hurting their son. They don't have protection around their house. An evil witch comes by and persuades them to put protection around their house. From the story Once Upon a Time it states that “the evil witch kept giving them more ideas and gave the little boy a book”. The next day the boy reacts to the story from the book the witch gave him. While he was reacting the story out of the book, he crawled into the wire tunnel and got stuck in it. After a while the little boy dies in the tunnel. This whole story is talking about how the parents don't trust their society, and how they have a hard time being apart of

The story of Rapunzel, by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, has the same basic structure as all other fairy tales born from the oral tradition; what is commonly referred to as the opening, main part and ending, is the foundation of the tale.

She attempts to control Rapunzel and keep her from reaching maturity, and thus independence. The moment Rapunzel reaches the age of puberty, (at age 12), the witch confines her to a tower in the forest. The forest is a symbol of transformation, a place where Rapunzel must discover her growing maturity. The tower may be similar to the idea of the attic: a metaphor for the mind and some part of her life yet to be explored, as well as being a phallic symbol. It has no doors or stairs, only a single high window.

Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm also known as the Grimm brothers are historically known for their uniqueness both in their styles of writing and the exceptional illustrations of their works. Their age old literature has been told and retold with the essence of gothic architecture and contemporary children's stories for decades now. This essay will contrast the Grimm brothers story of Rapunzel and Disney's story of Rapunzel, it will also include comparing their illustrations with Molly Bang's theory.

Possibly, a difference of opinion. The next scene shows a beat up horse and carriage departing the settlement and venturing off to parts unknown. Inside, a middle aged man of strict religious beliefs, his wife, their four children of various ages, and all their earthly belongings. Off they went heading deep into the forest to find themselves a new place to call home. Upon finding land that the elders believe will due, they settle in, building a home and farm in the process. At first, it appears to be the ideal life. The couple have another child. But all is not what it seems to be. For sharing the same woods as them, is a witch. The nastiest of it's kind. The newborn disappears. Their harvest is deemed worthless. An older child after gone missing, returns naked and evidently bewitched. These chain of events, have the otherwise tight knit family unit, question their own past actions, and what children that are left, accuse each other of wickedness. And all while this is going on, they had best keep an eyes on their outside critters. For one especially is keeping an eye on them.

Despite this, the cultural background has been adapted in both stories and each story holds a different comment on women and their identity. The Werewolf takes the folklore of the dangerous wolf and creates a bildungsroman journey about the usurping of the older generation. It retains several of Perrault’s iconic motifs; the path, the woods and the grandmother, however, it places the historically vulnerable child in a position of power. The Little Red Riding Hood character becomes the heroine of her own story and wields her knife in protection of herself as much as any male protagonists of fairy tales do. She is her own hero. Carter subverts the typical patriarchal idea that women, especially in fairy stories, are ‘victims’ and allows the young girl to be act aggressively when needed. This aspect of her character is alluded to as she wears ‘a scabby coat of sheepskin’, this refers to the well-known

The tale “Rapunzel” takes place deep in a forest where a unborn girl is already set as a debt to a witch from her parents. Once the girl is given to the witch and gets older, she is locked in a