Two Wrongs Makes a Wrong? Child neglect and abandonment, as well as their consequences and negative effects, lead to devastating effects on children’s development. Abandoned and betrayed children lose the trust toward the adult world. The Brothers Grimms’ “Hansel and Gretel” is the story of two children who were twice betrayed and left to die by their own father. The father, on the other hand, is a partner in crime of the stepmother, and both parents choose, in the time of famine, to save their lives instead of their children. Alone in the forest, the symbol of life’s cruelty, the children need to kill or to be killed. They need to learn how to stand up for themselves and for each other, without the parental love, guidance, and nurturing.
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The children find jewels and pearls when they loot the house. They use the riches to buy back the father’s love when they return back home. Very conveniently their stepmother had died or was killed?: “The woman, however, was dead. Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out his pocket to add to them” (Grimm 9). The older women betrayed Gretel, and now she is in charge of the house and is in control. However, the elements of moral corruption are clearly seen by the reader. The children make it out alive, out of the forest and supposedly have a happy ending. In this process, they lose their innocence and sacrificed their moral values. They’ll stop at anything, even murder in the future. They are definitely stronger and have no trust in the adult world. No adult can tell them what to do. They will eat as much as they can and as they desire “Then they stayed for several days to eat some more of the house”. At the end, Hansel and Gretel learn that parental love is conditional and can only be bought with riches. In result, they have no moral problems with murder, which correlates with the message of to eat or be eaten, kill or to be killed. Both Hansel and Gretel lose their innocence in the world of …show more content…
This a tale of a young motherless princess named Zezolla, who is loved and cherished by her father. When Zezolla’s father remarries, Zezolla’s stepmother treats Zezolla with cruelty. The unloved, motherless girl is looking for motherly love and is deceived by her sowing teacher. Carmosina, who teaches Zezolla how to kill without remorse in the most deceiving way, in order for the teacher to gain the position of Zezolla’s new stepmom. As all children whose biological mother dies, the children seek for love and nurture, Zezolla, on the other hand seeks for her teacher’s love. In the adult world of deceiving, Carmosina explains the process of killing the current stepmom: “And as you’re holding in while she rummages around inside, let it bang shut, and she’ll break her neck. Once that’s done, you know that your father would coin counterfeit money to make you happy, so when he caresses you, beg him to take me for his wife and, lucky you, you’ll become the mistress of my life” (Basile 84). The deceiving action against Zezolla in teaching her how to kill without remorse results on how the evil that goes unpunished. Betrayed by the new stepmother, Zezolla learns to use anything at her disposal to survive and blackmailing her unloving
The children find jewels and pearls when they loot the house. They use the riches to buy back the father’s love when they return back home. Very conveniently their stepmother had died or was killed?: “The woman, however, was dead. Gretel emptied her pinafore until pearls and precious stones ran about the room, and Hansel threw one handful after another out his pocket to add to them” (Grimm 9). The older women betrayed Gretel, and now she is in charge of the house and is in control. However, the elements of moral corruption are clearly seen by the reader. The children make it out alive, out of the forest and supposedly have a happy ending. In this process, they lose their innocence and sacrificed their moral values. They’ll stop at anything, even murder in the future. They are definitely stronger and have no trust in the adult world. No adult can tell them what to do. They will eat as much as they can and as they desire “Then they stayed for several days to eat some more of the house”. At the end, Hansel and Gretel learn that parental love is conditional and can only be bought with riches. In result, they have no moral problems with murder, which correlates with the message of to eat or be eaten, kill or to be killed. Both Hansel and Gretel lose their innocence in the world of …show more content…
This a tale of a young motherless princess named Zezolla, who is loved and cherished by her father. When Zezolla’s father remarries, Zezolla’s stepmother treats Zezolla with cruelty. The unloved, motherless girl is looking for motherly love and is deceived by her sowing teacher. Carmosina, who teaches Zezolla how to kill without remorse in the most deceiving way, in order for the teacher to gain the position of Zezolla’s new stepmom. As all children whose biological mother dies, the children seek for love and nurture, Zezolla, on the other hand seeks for her teacher’s love. In the adult world of deceiving, Carmosina explains the process of killing the current stepmom: “And as you’re holding in while she rummages around inside, let it bang shut, and she’ll break her neck. Once that’s done, you know that your father would coin counterfeit money to make you happy, so when he caresses you, beg him to take me for his wife and, lucky you, you’ll become the mistress of my life” (Basile 84). The deceiving action against Zezolla in teaching her how to kill without remorse results on how the evil that goes unpunished. Betrayed by the new stepmother, Zezolla learns to use anything at her disposal to survive and blackmailing her unloving