Brothers Grimm Whenever I think of a stepmother, I think of an evil woman who only cares about her looks, her wealth,and maybe her own children. A stepmother never cares about the child of the person she married to. A stepmother’s main goal in life is to make her new family’s life a living hell. If you are reading this introduction and agree with my first three sentences, you may be a victim of peer pressure in the literature world. The idea that all stepmothers are evil, is a stereotype introduced to most of us through fairy tales , mainly written by the Brothers Grimm,we were told as children. The Brothers Grimm cared more about popoularity than the integrity of their stories. Almost all of us have heard about the evil stepmother who
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They published the stories exactly as they were told and received many harsh words from parents and churches because the stories were not”christian Enough”. once the stories were criticized enough that the books were not selling, the Brothers Grimm decided some revisions were due.as according to Chris Gaylord, writer for The Christian Science Monitor, “The brothers published seventeen different editions between 1812 and 1864- plenty of time to ‘correct’ these tales.” The main changes that occurred in this cleansing period were the switches of maternity figures in “Hansel and Gretel” and in “Snow White”, not to mention all sexual references were removed as seen in the comparison between the 1812 version and the 1857 version of …show more content…
In the original version Snow White’s mother, a vain, cruel woman, who had a child for no reason other than she wanted a child as white as snow, red as blood and as black as ebony wood, after she pricked her finger sewing by a black window sill during winter. In the 1812 version, the mother does not die shortly after Snow White is born, thus no evil stepmother. Who is the evil woman trying to kill Snow White later in the story then, if there is no evil stepmother? Snow White 's almost murderer is her mother (Okapina, “Snow”). Mothers did not want to read a story to their children if it might scare the kids into fearing their own parents, so what was the Brothers way of solving that problem? Make the evil, would-be murderer Snow White’s stepmother
They published the stories exactly as they were told and received many harsh words from parents and churches because the stories were not”christian Enough”. once the stories were criticized enough that the books were not selling, the Brothers Grimm decided some revisions were due.as according to Chris Gaylord, writer for The Christian Science Monitor, “The brothers published seventeen different editions between 1812 and 1864- plenty of time to ‘correct’ these tales.” The main changes that occurred in this cleansing period were the switches of maternity figures in “Hansel and Gretel” and in “Snow White”, not to mention all sexual references were removed as seen in the comparison between the 1812 version and the 1857 version of …show more content…
In the original version Snow White’s mother, a vain, cruel woman, who had a child for no reason other than she wanted a child as white as snow, red as blood and as black as ebony wood, after she pricked her finger sewing by a black window sill during winter. In the 1812 version, the mother does not die shortly after Snow White is born, thus no evil stepmother. Who is the evil woman trying to kill Snow White later in the story then, if there is no evil stepmother? Snow White 's almost murderer is her mother (Okapina, “Snow”). Mothers did not want to read a story to their children if it might scare the kids into fearing their own parents, so what was the Brothers way of solving that problem? Make the evil, would-be murderer Snow White’s stepmother