The Role Of Ignorance In Grimm's Other Tales

Through the many years the Grimm brothers were alive, an array of children's literature was produced. Actually, the correct term would be reproduced. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were masters at reproducing and even changing early children's stories so that they had more meaning for the children of the time. More times than not, they censored out sexual meanings and added violence to children's stories that had already been told for centuries. By doing so, the brothers got an effect out of the story that would change it from a story with a subtle theme or moral, to a vivid story of lessons to be learned and consequences to be dealt with. There was one thing about their' writing that was always

Patriarchal society is a place where women are dehumanized, thus considered as commodities. The context of Snow White also set in a class-system. The evil mother is the monarch (the King is absent in the story, but it is assumed that he exists), making Snow White a princess. It is not a coincidence that the two most beautiful or “fairest” women in the text come from royalty. Snow White does not betray to her royal ties, getting married to a prince in the end of the story. It is true that when Snow White and the Queen fall apart, Snow White temporarily lives like a lower class person. However, her royal ties are still there. This temporary period is when she is most treated like a commodity, as a lower class person or a blue-collar worker would be in the hands of a monarch or an employer. In the end of the story, she gets married to the prince, thus assumes her royalty back. It is then, her turn to control the fate of her

Grimm’s tale conveys a story of a girl whose morals, soul, and faith in God and her mother’s words are what defines her beauty. They reinstate this point by describing even the step-sisters as works of beauty. By

Rapunzel is a well-known fairy tale, originally created by the Grimm Brothers, that has changed very much throughout the years. Starting out as a story of a girl locked in a tower, it has evolved into countless versions. The most common adaption of the Grimm Brothers’ story is the disney movie Tangled. This movie debuted in 2010 and was a hit. Overall, the Grimm Brothers story has become iconic for it’s history and also its adaptations.

Thesis statement- Two stories in Grimm’s Fairytales, The Devil and his Grandmother and Rumpelstiltskin, share very similar beginnings, received help for a heavy price, and outsmarted the person against them.

In the Grimm’s Fairy Tales, women are seen as submissive and weak, unparalleled to men, which would be fairly common in the early 20th century, but modern Disney films seem to be portraying that same message nearly a century later. This kind of mainstream media message tells young, impressionable girls that their role in life is one of servitude and care-keeping, because that is what they see in Disney movies and hear from Grimm’s Fairy Tale bedtime stories. In stories such as Snow White, Cinderella, and Rapunzel, women are in a position of caring for other members of the household in which they reside. All three main female characters are in a “damsel-in-distress” situation in which they can only be saved so long as a handsome man finds it

Clarification of her beauty is there to aid the reader in understanding that she is good and valuable. Furthermore, her hair not only symbolizes beauty but fertility and sexuality; proving that she is an object. Once she loses her hair, it is evident that she also loses what makes her of value to men, which in this case is the innocence of her untouched beauty or her virginity (pg. 35). In addition, the story “Little Snow-White,” presents an initial description about Snow-white centered around her beauty: “as white as snow, and as red as blood, and her hair was as black as ebony” (pg. 124). Because of this description, the reader defines Snow-white’s importance with the base of her pure white skin, passionate red lips, and seductive black hair. These three characteristics show the value of Snow-White to the prince, who begs the dwarfs for her coffin. While persuading the dwarfs to give over Snow-white, he attempts to trade objects to compensate the dwarfs (pg. 130). To young women, values defined in fairy tales depict a horrid, demeaning view of

Our society as a whole has been built upon the strength of the written word and the power of stories, being the cause of our religions, wars, and laws. Fairytales are no different. They have taught morals, encouraged human creativity, and inspired generations of the written craft. Fairytales were important to societies of the past and the ones of modern day.

Over the years, Snow White’s story has been told in numerous different versions then its original version in 1812 by the Grimm Brothers. The main basis of the story has remained the same. Only a few minor tweaks to the story have changed. The three versions of the story that are going to be analyzed are the original story “Little Snow White” by the Brothers Grimm, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” by Disney, and “Mirror, Mirror” by Disney also. They each were created in very different times and the original story has changed over the years to appeal to the audience of that time. No matter how many versions there are Snow White is considered, one of the most cherished fairy tales of all time. They each use different methods to get their

Everyone must go through different challenges and transformations in order to reach their full potential. In fairy tales, physical transformations are not uncommon: a pig turning into a handsome prince or a frog turning into a beautiful woman. However, in some tales, the physical transformation has nothing to do with a spell or curse. In these stories, physical transformation can be seen as representative of the psychological transformation the character is experiencing. The characters diminish themselves, becoming something other than human, to discover who they really are. The psychological changes they experience can be described by Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. This pyramid shows the progression by which individuals become self-actualized, or reach their full potential (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). By transforming into an animal, like a sparrow in both Lin Lan Cinderella and the Grimm Brothers’ Juniper Tree, the characters are able to further move up the hierarchy, so that eventually they can return to their human form. In Lin Lan’s Cinderella, a girl named Beauty transforms a number of times on her path to self-actualization. She goes from a meek girl, to a woman standing up for her rightful place. By diminishing herself, she is able to more fully understand who she wants to become. She is able to move up Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs by taking ownership of her own life.

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.”

The one reason Zipes gave that I thought was the most significant was that fairy tales were written to give principles, norms, values, and beliefs to people. I felt that this was the most significant because it allowed people to believe in things when they were in the egregious situations. The fairy tales inspired people to believe more in things, so they wouldn’t give up even in the worse situations. I also felt that this was the most significant because the principles and norms set good standards for people to follow that they could use in their own lives. It also led them to learn good morals that they should retain, but it also helped them understand some bad morals that they should beware. There were outcomes from the good morals that

REPRESENTATION OF THE GOOD AND EVIL IN “SLEEPING BEAUTY” AND “MALEFICENT” MOVIES “Once upon a time, there was a Kingdom far away…” says the storyteller when he/she starts to tell the story. This is how folktales usually begin and we suddenly find ourselves in a magical world of the story. Grimm’s folktale “Sleeping Beauty” takes place in a magical world, too where the witches, fairies and giants are no longer imaginary. There is good and evil as it is in every tale, and we listen to the story from the perspective of the heroine.

From reading Snow White, I noticed a lot of traits from the other Fairy Tales I've read. In Snow White, the queen wished for a daughter who white as snow and red as blood and that’s what the mother said in The Juniper Tree, when she was trying to wish for a child. Most of the Fairy Tales are about evil step mothers, absentee father and witches house in the woods, or some type of civilization in the wilderness. In this story, what I found hysterical on how jealous the stepmother was over Snow White and her beauty. She was overcome with jealousy and rage that she even considering killing her stepdaughter, just so her mirror can say that she’s beautiful.So when the mirror told her that Snow White was still alive and she was living with seven

Despite gender, living conditions or cultural backgrounds most people grow up reading or hearing stories of heroism and damsel in distress scenarios. Anne Sexton turns stereotypes on their head in her satirical poems of classic fairy tales, including Snow White and The Seven Dwarves and Cinderella. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves tells the tale of a young princess with hair as black as coal and skin as pale as snow, whose life is thrown into turmoil at the hands of her overbearing stepmother. Cinderella tells the story of a young girl who she spends her life is yearning for the prince’s ball, and similar to Snow White, Cinderella’s stepmother is influencing her life, however she is a positive character throughout the story. This sheds light on the stepmother in Snow White’s piece as despite the fact that Snow White’s stepmother clearly does inherently evil things, a re-reading demands a re-examination of why. It is throughout these tales’ where stepmothers are only trying to protect their children from the world around them, however in Snow White an outside motive, the beauty provided by the mirror and the pride manifested by poison, creates a barrier between the queen and her stepdaughter, thus giving her the title “Evil”.