Grimm's Fairy Tales

The reemergence of the young boy forces the king to obsess over him. After the king disposes of the boy in the river, he is found by a miller. As he and his wife did not bear children, the millers opted to adopt the beautiful child and raise him as their own. Fourteen years pass and the boy is a handsome young man. After conversing with the miller and questioning him over the boy, the king finally recognizes him. Once more he gets the urge to slaughter him. He sets a trap for the boy to deliver…

Schneewittchen. Identifying each of Olrik’s Epic Laws that are evident in Schneewittchen, translated to Snow-White, successfully allows for a deeper understanding of the structural approach as well as the tale. The first law of Olrik’s Epic Laws is the Law of Opening and Closing, which states that a folk tale does not begin with a sudden action or ending. (Olrik 134). There is a very obvious introduction at the beginning…

Fairy tales are not only viewed on movie screens or passed down through generations. Many of us live fairy tale lives or experience Grimm fairy tale scenarios day by day, but not everyone witnesses a happy ending. Various individuals have lives filled with domestic abuse, illness, and gruesome traumas. Valerie Gribben argues that fairy tales have helped her during her medical practice as a doctor, and these tales have helped Gribben cope with the grim realities of the world by reminding her that…

Imagery can greatly enhance a literary work not only for the reader’s imagination, but also for motifs and metaphors. Louise Erdrich’s novel The Beet Queen discusses the Adares sibling’s move to North Dakota. North Dakota is described as grey, and depressing. The surroundings greatly effect Karl, but Mary seems less effected. Erdrich’s detailed description shows how the children are compared to their surroundings, and how the detail put into a tree effects Karl. Louise Erdrich’s imagery impacts…

Did you know that the Disney movie Peter Pan has a prequel book to the movie? The book Peter and the Starcatchers written by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson have new and more characters than what the movie has. Alongside Peter, the other main character is a girl named Molly. Mostly every book or story has an antagonist in them well in Peter and the Starcatchers the antagonist is a cruel captain of pirates whose name is Black Stache. You probably heard of The Never Land from the movie but the main…

Nancy Wake: The White Mouse Standing Up to Hitler Grace-Nancy Wake Kate-Guard, Narrator Addy-Violette Jadyn-Henri Fiocca, Narrator Helen-Narrator, Winston Churchill Helen: Nancy Wake was a true hero. She took a huge stand. Sadly, so few know about her. This is her untold story. We open in Wellington, New Zealand, where Nancy Wake grew up. She was born in 1912, and ran away from home at age 16. Nancy Wake led her life from that point on. She moved to Paris, France, in order to become…

In the story The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, the two main offenders are the goat mother and the wolf. The story is about a goat mother who leaves her seven young kids at home, despite there being a wolf on the loose who is dangerous, the mother leaves her kids home alone (Child Abandonment, 218). But, sure enough, the wolf finds a way to get into the house. The wolf tricked the kids by putting dough and flour on his hands (Threatening the miller, 264) Once the wolf got into the house, he ate…

“The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it”. This is a statement made by Rapunzel’s mother, Gothel in Disney’s Tangled to Rapunzel about the world. Tangled is about a beautiful girl, who was kidnapped by Gothel when she was a baby for her hair, which makes one younger when singing. Gothel then raises the baby in a stone castle which is hidden where no one can find it. Once Rapunzel grows up, she wants to see the world and the…

To most audiences the story of Pinocchio is a lighthearted one, filled with the adventures of a jovial puppet and his cricket conscience with the occasional unnerving scene. Yet this is not the dark and death defying tale that author Carlo Collodi originally wrote in his 1883 novel. As is the case with many Disney adaptations, the original story of Pinocchio has been erased from the public consciousness and replaced by that of the adaption. This erasure is due to the quality of the film and its…

Paper: “The Peasant’s Clever Daughter” Fairy tales rarely have a clever woman that is equal to a male, they are usually a damsel in distress, or thought of as a beautiful woman to wed the leading man. This story was the exact opposite, we had a woman who was clever, giving the king reason to think of her worthy, but truly she played him on a mistake her father had made. Although not a typical fairy tale, it follows all eight characteristics of a fairy tale: it takes place in an undefined time…