Comparing Hansel And Gretel In The 1890's

Maria Tatar’s “An Introduction to Fairy Tales” discusses the impact on how the stories help guide the children from their younger age. The first five paragraphs of the article mentioned about how the children can overflow with imagination, and can vividly see their reality of desire and also, fear. The fairytales can also corrupt the naïve minds of the child in a way of making them realize the reality of the world is unjustified, and people can be harsh. Moreover, Tatar gives an explanation on how people grow up with the same fairy tales with different versions; which gives an entirely different personal idea. Fairy tales also develop the child’s intellectual mind by reading various kinds of genre.

Most modern fairytales are expected to have happy endings and be appropriate for children, nonetheless, in past centuries most were gruesome. Consequently, fairytales have been modified throughout time. The stories “Beauty and the Beast” by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont and “The Summer and Winter Garden” by Jacob and Wilherm Grimm share similarities and differences. The two stories are distinct because of the peculiar year they have been written in. LePrince de Beaumont’s story is written in London of 1783 and Grimm’s in Germany of 1812. At the time, wealthy people in London, were educated and had nannies who would read to their children; whereas, in Germany, the Grimm brothers created their own interpretation into a short story.

Byron Howard and Nathan Greno’s Tangled establishes Rapunzel’s parents as the king and queen of the island of Corona, while the Grimm Brothers’ “Rapunzel” introduces Rapunzel’s parents as an average couple who are neighbors of a sorceress with a beautiful and bountiful garden. In both tales, the wife

Fairy tales have existed for years, some starting as oral stories for decades before ever being recorded on paper. These tales continue to hold an importance in the present such that they reflect the changes in time and progression of thought and ideas. Over time, many fairy tales are retold for various reasons including reforming them to be used for new audiences to make the story more relatable or to convey a different point of view to various specific audiences. This can be seen in various renditions; Andrew Anderson’s Shrek can be compared to Steig’s “Shrek!” and Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and evaluated as a retelling of either based on specific criteria. Although some may argue that William Steig’s “Shrek!” appears more closely similar to Anderson’s Shrek, as evaluated from the presence of similar characters, general plot structure, and targeted audience, the movie Shrek is more closely a retelling of Charles Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood.”

Fairy Folk Tales are the most popular types of literature. The tale is an orally transmitted tradition by generations through the time; some events are changed to fit reality and society. Folk fairy tales deal with the dualism of the good and the evil. They are basing on a conflict between the good and the evil forces. The conclusion comes from aspirations of the human desire to achieve the justices. There are no known authors and sources for ancient literature. We have many versions of the story; they are credited by many authors later. Each tale is very like some other culture’s tale. Each culture has own tales, but all the tales are similar and different in some points. This essay will compare between two

The central focus of this unit is to identify the elements of stories and how their themes may relate to each other in a variety of ways. Students will be guided in a variety of comparison and contrasting activities in order to gain understanding of main ideas, characters, and cultural themes across similar fairy tales from different cultures. This unit focuses on three different versions of Cinderella from different cultures. I chose to focus on the common elements of the fairy tales and the cultural differences because this was something the students were struggling with previously.

This modern fairy tale contains diverse characters but none of them are as important as the grandmother. In fact, through her narration the reader gets the basic

As a child, I was told fairytales such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs every night before I went to sleep. Fairytales are an adventurous way to expand a child’s imagination and open their eyes to experience a new perspective. Modernizations of fairytales typically relate to a specific audience, such as adolescence, and put a contemporary spin on the old-aged tale. Instead of using whimsical themes heavily centered in nature, the contemporary poems connect with the reader in a more realistic everyday scenario. Also, many modernizations are written in poetic form to help reconstruct a flow in the piece and to develop or sometimes completely change the meaning from that of the original fairytale. Comparing Grimm’s Fairytale Snow White

While comparing the two poems, "Gretel in Darkness" by Louise Gluck and "Hansel and Gretel" by Anne Sexton with the original Brothers Grimm tale "Hansel and Gretel", different perspectives, point of views and messages are shown.

There are many conventions that are present in the story Hansel and Gretel, by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, that make it of the fairytale genre. There are good and evil characters, problems present and an overall Good vs Evil storyline. On the fourth page it says: “When the moon appeared… they could not find any crumbs, for the many thousands of birds…had pecked them up.” This is an example of a problem. Hansel had put crumbs on the ground to find their way back because he knew that his parents would not come back to collect them and take them back home. When they woke up the crumbs were gone because the birds had eaten them. Now Hansel and Gretel could not find their way home, back to their family. This is one of the conventions that are included

Fairy tales like Snow White and Cinderella both contain the struggle of good vs. evil. The struggle of good vs evil in these tales teaches us that good always prevails over evil. The fairy tales often times contain common elements that represent good and evil in the story. Both of these tales show the good and evil elements in similar forms. Both tales have the same outcomes where good prevails and they live happily ever after. These tales expose important concepts like good and bad for young readers. Tales such as these two can also teach young readers about good and bad things in life and ways of handling them.

Violence is also strong and present in Hansel and Gretel. However, unlike in Cinderella, the violence in Hansel and Gretel is not described in details allowing the readers to use their imagination. Indeed, the story begins with a stepmother who forces a father to abandon his children in the forest which is itself already a certain kind of violence. One of the first aspects of horror that the children Hansel and Gretel are faced is the potential of starvation and their consequential exiling by their step-mother: “You know what husband? Tomorrow morning, very early let us take the children…and we’ll be rid of them” (59). The story simply states that there is not enough food for the children at home, so they must fend for themselves in the

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were linguists and literary scholars. The Brothers Grimm become famous after publishing a collection of children fairy tales and folktales. “The Grimm’s Fairy Tales collection has been translated into more than 100 languages,” (Brothers) including one known as Hansel and Gretel originally published in the year 1812. Many generations of Germanic peoples passed this tale down through an oral tradition of folklore until the Brothers Grimm included the tale in their collections of fairy tales back in the 19th century. “The ages of the theme in Hansel and Gretel rests on the times of feast and famine, it was the time of despair when people often did terrifying things to survive.”

Everyone at some point in their lives has read a classic fairytale. Many people do not realize the intense back stories and unusual ideas that societies may produce and infiltrate into these stories that are then passed down. One such story is Hansel and Gretel. There is a dramatic escape from the witch’s gingerbread house where Gretel is considered to be forced to shove her in the fire. When reading this story, many people think that Gretel’s act was that of defense. She is such an innocent little girl who seems to think nothing of it at the time. What is revealed by the author of a poem titled Gretel in Darkness, is very different from many reader’s original.

An Armenian monk introduce the gingerbread to the European countries . He taught the art of baking to the French Christians. The Brothers Grimm wrote the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel; a story about a boy and girl lost in the woods and finding a magical house. A house made of sweet bread and decorated with candy. It was a gingerbread house.