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Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm Essay

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Fairytales or imaginary stories were and are still told to children before they go to bed. In these stories, there were kings and queens that lived in kingdoms. With the king and queen, there would be a beautiful princess. The story will sometimes have an evil force that would cause terror in the kingdom. The evil force could be a number of things. An example of an evil figures can be a witch, warlock, troll, dwarf, stepfamilies, and even animals. Along with the evil figure, there are heroes that would save the day. The heroes were sometimes knights, princes, or sometimes even peasants. The hero would go up against any task that the evil figure throws at him. There would be some points in story where the hero feels like giving up and then …show more content…

As the boys got older, Jakob was able to continue his education at a university to study law (Yolen XVI). Wilhelm was also able to continue his education too, but he had health problems that kept causing delays in his education. During their time studying law, there was a scholar and his brother-in-law that showed the brothers the materials that the brothers are known for until this very day (Yolen XVI). They started to study any type of literature they could get their hands on; like poetry. Later on in life, the brother were known for their knowledge of “Germany’s medieval language, literature, and culture” (Hilderband 214). Continuing their work, Jakob had travelled to Paris to study and explore the Bibliothèque nationale de France while Wilhelm studied Norse literature (Yolen XVII). During their time of researching, their mother had died and the brother would have to post pone their research to take carry of the rest of the family (Yolen XVII). . While Wilhelm was at home sick and studying researching more one folktales, Jakob was able to get hired at the Westphalian king’s library and was able to continue his research as well. After all their research on each culture, Jakob and Wilhelm had some of their work published. Jakob had had two of his own work published. His first work that was published was Deutsche Grammatik. The Deutsche

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