Fairy Tales By The Brothers Grimm

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 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.

So ingrained is the image of women's beauty in fairy tales that it is difficult to imagine any that do not highlight and glorify it.” (722). Therefore, each story uses beauty to draw in a bigger audience because no one wants to see an ugly duckling. This is how the media portrays women today, that they should be skinny and beautiful and if they are not then no one will want to be like them; the young beautiful women get more rewards. What that shows girls is that they must be a fairy tale character just to be noticed, but what they do not understand is how naïve Rapunzel is to her surroundings because mother Gothel will not let her out of the tower.

This translated to today’s literature, by establishing that no one wants to read about an unflawed character or one with excess. This leads to discussion about another characteristic, the happily ever after. “Then he took her to his kingdom, where he was received with great joy, and there they lived long and happily.” (Grimm 94) In these fairytales, the down on their luck, the poor are rewarded with unknown riches or marriage into nobility, or escaping their curse. In Rapunzel, the cursed maiden is discovered by her long lost prince and married into royalty. The basic concept is that we want to read about flawed persons who rise to the occasion and best those who don’t believe in them, ending up happy. This echoes in today’s literature still, because we see ourselves in these flawed characters, seeing as if they can persevere, then so can we. What makes all of these happy endings possible (and why we connect to the characters) is the way these characters come upon riches and joy. Another characteristic of the Grimm’s stories are the main characters perseverance, selflessness, patience or beauty to achieve betterment. Rapunzel waited several year, while raising her children before she found her happy ending, but it states that “Rapunzel was the most beautiful child in the world” and that “as he drew near he heard a voice singing so sweetly that he stood still and listened. It was Rapunzel in her loneliness trying to pass away the time with sweet

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.

Like the introduction, the main part of the tale is also composed of three distinct parts which form a short story on their own. A clear beginning, a central story, and an ending exists. The opening of the main part is concluded after the prince, although enchanted by Rapunzel’s singing, gives up his plan to pursue her when faced with a barrier: no entryway to the tower in which Rapunzel lives. When the prince enters the forest a second time, he is a changed person – he now has a motivation to act on his desires for Rapunzel. The prince is no longer a man who easily gives up; he is eager to form a plan for entry into the tower, and at the same time, the life of the sheltered Rapunzel. She too undergoes a

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.

Once upon a time, there was a horrible girl named Leznupar. she lived in a tiny, little house in a tiny, little town. Her father and mother were simple people, who just wanted a simple life. Leznupar was the opposite. She was not the most well behaved girl, and she would get into trouble and out of it in an instant. Leznupar was longing for something fun to do and had no way to do it. So, she decided to get into trouble and mess with some people.

In 2010, Disney released Tangled a film based on the Grimms’ tale, Rapunzel. Despite several commonalities, the stories of Rapunzel and Tangled are not as similar as one might think. After taking a deeper look into the two tales, I have formed an analysis on both tales from the view of femininity and power relationships in fairytales. Tangled present a vision of a femininity that is more powerful and independence than that presented in Grimms’ Rapunzel

This replacement of the “true” mother figure remains essential to most Disney films with female leads” (Delrosso). Rapunzel is an extremely passionate person, containing few flaws however her naivety with the world’s hardships displays, her inability to coupe with certain moments. However, she manages to fulfill her main desire which is to gain courage in order to leave the castle and experience the floating lanterns. “As Disney princesses go, Rapunzel is more believable in her teenage histrionics, taking the audience along on a roller-coaster ride of emotions. After disobeying strict orders not to leave the tower, she flits between spasms of guilt and rapturous glee” (Puig).

On her eighteenth birthday, when Gothel was away, a guest visited her: Flynn Rider- the hunted thieve for stoling the princess' crown. When runing away from the guards, he saw the tower and climb up there for a place to hide. He saw Rapunzel. She was suprised and hit him with the pan. While he fainted, she recognized something bag he was wearing: a crown. It was beautiful. But then she hid it. When he woke up, trapted in ropes, she got a deal with him: she will return him his crown if he will be her guard and take her outside to see the lightsand bring her home safety. After a long negociation, he agreed. He take her out side of the tower and bring her to town. This is the first time she ever sees anything this lively. People in the kingdom was celebrating and commemorate the missing princess: the flags ( of the kingdom), music, drawings, flowers, bread and sweets are everywhere. Everybody looks so happy and they were having fun with eachother. Flynn and Rapunzel joined them, they dance and draw and play for the whole day! Forgot to mentioned, Rapunzel was pretty good at

   The familiar story of Rapunzel, as told by the brothers Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, takes on new meaning with a psychoanalytic interpretation. It is a complex tale about desire, achievement, and loss. The trio of husband, wife, and witch function as the ego, id, and superego respectively to govern behavior regarding a beautiful object of desire, especially when a prince discovers this object.

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

1. What is the genre of this story? Are there any other possible genres this story could fall into?

As we grow up, we hear fairy tales and we read them into our lives. Every word and every image is imprinted into our minds. The fairy tales we read are never abandoned. They grow with us and our dreams become molds of the many morals and happily ever afters fairy tales display. We tell children fairy tales when they go to sleep and they read them in school and we even have them watch Disney adaptions that reinforce them further. Generally, they were everywhere while we grew up and they continue to be present while children are growing up now. But what influence do these stories have? We casually expose our children to these tales, but in some cases they can have particularly, harmful personal effects on them, although there is nothing completely or visibly “bad” about them or about the characters in them. Before we divulge our youth to these stories, we should assess their substance and see what sort of effect they may be having on them. They have received so much scrutiny and have been studied by many. Recognizing fairy tales effects on the minds of children is vital in their development. This paper will focus on the underlying messages that the average person wouldn’t recognize in these everyday stories. There’s a modern distort with fairy tales because while they still are widely popular with the youth, they influence children’s self images, outlooks on reality and expectations for their futures, especially for young women.