The Wild Man Analysis

The tales of the wild men, Iron Hans by Friedmund Von Arnim and The Wild Man by the Grimm brothers, have distinct differences which gives a definite choice of which is the more thought out of the two. Where Iron Hans is longer and more thought out with a cohesive plot, The Wild Man is shorter, thrown together, and overall very choppy. The tales both had the same basic plot, with the wild man being caught and then released by the young son of whoever is keeping him, both of them leaving the original land and going to a foreign land, and the with the help of the wild man the boy gains a wife, a kingdom, and riches throughout his journey. The boy starts off as a selfish child in the beginning of both tales and over the course of the story is …show more content…
Stories like “Cinderella” that have absent and/or abusive parents help kids deal with similar problems in their home life. It shows that even in a world of magic not everything can be fixed and people can still be bad parents or bad people in general. The tales can also help make sense of what is going on in child’s life since they might not understand yet or have no one around that they can relate to about their problems with their parents or otherwise. Other ideals, like the fear of failure or becoming resourceful are dealt with as well. In any spinning tale like The Three Spinners or Rumpelstiltskin the main character has fix her predicament with the resources she has around her, even if it is magic, something we don’t have as a resource in our lives. Kids learn not only how to deal with things but also learn basic morals and values of good and bad which makes me think that fairy tales should be a part of all children's lives when growing …show more content…
In “Little Red Riding Hood” it is a girl portrayed as gullible, telling the wolf where grannies house is and taking her time to get there, or a girl who is thought to be gullible by the wolf and in the end tricks him. It shows the thought that women are easy to take advantage of because of their dull-mindedness or naivety. Tale types like “Cinderella” showcase the cooking and cleaning aspect of what women are thought to supposed to be doing to be useful at all. In most stories she either starts off cleaning and taking care of the sisters and uses her beauty or dresses to charm the prince or she uses cooking to charm him after he sees her beauty. Never once does her personality or other “non-womanly” talents come into play when he falls in love with her. In “Beauty and the Beast” it is almost always a beautiful girl that has to marry an ugly male beast. In all of these tales the women are or at least thought to be dumber than men and have to have beauty or some kind of beauty or skill to be