Brothers Grimm

Jacobo Ludwig Grimm (1785 - 1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786 - 1859)
Born in: Hanau, Germany

Their intentions:

- Write about violent and vivid imagery. - Allow children to use their brain and overcome
- Allow us to work through our fears. anything.
- Teach morals and “Right from Wrong”.

They studied in: University of Marburg

Ended up being:

- Academics - Lexicographers - Later authors

- Philologists - Cultural researchers

Got interested in: German Folklore

Jacob Ludwig Grimm published: 21 books Together, they published: 8 books

Willhelm Carl Grimm published: 14 books

Some of their tales:

- Aschenputtel (Cinderella) - Feldsalat (Rapunzel)

- Schneewittchen (Snow Withe) - Rumpelstilzche
- Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood) - Hansel and Gretel
- Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty)

Commercial Success by: Walt Disney

Rapunzel
Characters:

- Rapunzel - King´s Son

- Rapunzel´s parents - Gothel

Symbolism:

- Rampion: Greed/Desire - Witch: Punishment/Consequences

- Rapunzel: Innocence

Metaphor:

- “The sweet bird sits no longer in the nest; the cat has got her”
- “Hair her shone like gold”

Hyperbole:

- “If I don´t eat rampion. I will die”

- The King´s Son would have no rest until he found out the voice

Imagery:

- “A splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs”
- Gothel beating Rapunzel and snipping her hair
- Prince falling and losing sight
Personification: Rapunzel personifies the rampion as object of desire.

Simile: “And I will care for it like a mother”.

Exposition Desire for rampion, which leads to husband stealing.

Conflict Gothel punishing them taking Rapunzel forever.
R.A. Rapunzel locket in a tower and the King´s Son wants her.
Climax King´s Son finds Rapunzel and device a plan. Gothel finds out.
F.A. Gothel punishes the King´s Son and Rapunzel.
Resolution Rapunzel is sent away. The King´s Son wanders around.
Denouement King´s Son finds Rapunzel, recovers sight, live happily

Published in: 1812

Summary
Behind the house of a couple who wanted to have children, lived a witch, which had a garden full of the best vegetables
and flowers. One day the woman notices the presence of a rampion in the witch’s house and wants it, but she knew she
would never get it, so she walked away, and became pale and miserable. When her husband asked her what was going on,
she only replied that she would die if she didn´t get that rampion. Her husband got the rampion she wanted, they ate it and
she asked him again to look for the rampion.

When the husband climbed the wall again to reach the rampions, this time the witch saw him. With angry eyes and crying,
she begs him why he was stealing from her garden. The man explained that his wife became obsessed with these rampions
and would die if she didn’t have them. To this, the witch tells her that they can have any rampion they want, but only if they
give her the child that will be born in no time, and she will take care of her as a mother. The man accepts and when Rapunzel
(which is the same as rampion) is born, the witch takes it.

Rapunzel was the most beautiful girl in the world and had beautiful long hair that shined like gold. At age 12, Gothel locks
her in a tower that has no entrance or exit except a small window. When Gothel wants to enter the tower, she calls Rapunzel
to pose her hair so she can climb it. One day, the King’s Son hears Rapunzel singing a sweet song and as he noticed that
there was no entrance to enter the tower, he went to the forest every day to hear it.

After a short time, the King’s Son as he hid behind a tree, realized one day how the witch entered the tower, then one day
he called Rapunzel as if she were the witch and finally managed to enter the tower. Rapunzel was terrified to find out who
had entered the tower and much more because he was a man (she had never seen one before). The terror quickly
disappeared when the King’s Son spoke to him in a very sweet way and told him how he could not be at peace if he saw
the owner of the sweet voice personally. He then asks her to marry her and she agrees. Then, they plan a plan for her to
leave the tower.

Rapunzel told her the plan he had with the King’s Son unintentionally to Gothel and she, in reaction, hit her many times, cut
her beautiful hair with scissors and took her to a desert place, where she lived in misery. When the King’s Son went in
search of Rapunzel, Gothel tricked him into thinking she was Rapunzel, when what he was climbing was Rapunzel’s cut
hair. Gothel makes him understand that he will never see Rapunzel again and he jumped out of the window with a lot of
pain. Although he managed to escape alive, thanks to him falling on the thorns, he became blind.

Many years passed after what happened and the King’s Son did not manage to do much apart from wandering through the
woods, eating a few things and regretting having lost his wife. But one day he arrives at the desert place where Rapunzel
lived with his twin-children, a girl and a boy. He recognized Rapunzel’s voice and when tears of happiness touched his eyes,
he could see again. They all went to the kingdom, where they were welcomed and had a very long and happy life.

Lesson of the history

All actions have consequences. This is seen repeatedly. For example, Rapunzel’s mother wanted the rampion so much that
even her husband exchanged the rampion for her unborn daughter. This led to Rapunzel living in a tower with Gothel, where
she became very innocent, as she had no contact with the real world. When she meets the King’s Son and marries him,
she becomes pregnant, but before the twins were born, because of disobeying Gothel, she hurt her, cut her beautiful hair
and with locks of Rapunzel’s hair, she tricked the King’s Son and he ended up blind.
 Little Snow Withe
Characters:

- Little Snow Withe - The huntsman - The prince

- The queen - The 7 dwarves

Theme: Symbols:

- Envy - Appel: Death

- Jealousy - Mirror: Ego
- Dwarves: Knowledge, Sense

Foreshadowing:

- “As withe as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood”. This predicts Snow Withe´s appearance

Repetition:

- “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who´s the fairest of them all?”

Imagery:

- Many instances of violent imagery in Snow Withe´s murder attempts.

- The death of the queen.

Simile:

- Snow, Blood and Ebony Wood: the cycle of life.

- White, red and black to be born, live and die.

Allusion:

- 7 Mountains: The 7 hills of Rome, 7 days to create the world, 7 capital sins, 7 wonders of the world.
- Appel: Adam and Eve´s apple.
- Snow Withe resurrection: Reference to Jesus resurrection.

Summary
The queen wanted a daughter as withe as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony wood, and when she was born,
she called her: Little Snow Withe. The queen asked her mirror every morning: Mirror, mirror, on the wall, Who in this land in
the fairest of all? In response, the Mirror always said she was the fairest of all, but when Snow Withe turned 7, she was so
beautiful that the Queen’s mirror, now said that Snow Withe was the fairest of all. This caused the queen to be very jealous
of her, to the point of hating her own daughter.

One day the queen decides to call a hunter to kill Snow Withe and as proof of his death, he must bring her Snow Withe’s
lung and liver. The queen planned to eat them. The Hunter took little Snow Withe into the woods, and although he tried to
kill her, he did not because he had some compassion for her. Since he had to make the queen believe that Snow Withe was
dead, he took the lung and liver off a young boar. The queen ate it, thinking it was Snow Withe’s lung and liver.

Snow Withe ran through the forest and eventually found a house, which belonged to 7 dwarfs. Upon entering, she noticed
that everything was very small and very dirty and disorganized. She, tired of running and everything that had happened to
her, lay down in the 7 beds together. When the 7 dwarfs arrived home and saw the 7-year-old lying down asleep, they did
not wake her up and waited for her to wake up to ask what had happened. Snow Withe explained everything to them and
the 7 dwarfs told her she could stay if she organized and cleaned the whole house, but they also warned her not to let
anyone in when they are working at the mine.

The queen, the next day asks her mirror who is the fairest of all and the mirror told her that it is still Snow Withe, who
localized beyond the 7 mountains. The queen quickly understood that Snow Withe is with the 7 dwarfs, as they are the only
ones living in the 7 mountains. The queen, to deceive Snow Withe, disguised herself as an old peddler woman. Upon
arriving at the house of the 7 dwarfs she said she was selling bodice laces and Snow Withe let her into the house. In some
moment, Snow Withe tried some of it and the queen took hold of the laces and pulled them so tight that Snow Withe couldn´t
beath. Then, the queen returns to her palace.
The 7 dwarfs found Snow Withe lying on the floor and they cut the bodice laces in 2, and then she could breathe, and she
came back to live. They once again warned her not to allow anyone in. Once again, the queen asks her mirror who is the
fairest of all and the mirror replies that it is still Snow Withe, who is with the 7 dwarfs. The queen tired of Snow Withe not
dying, made a poisoned comb, which she managed to sell to Snow Withe, who at first did not let the peddler woman in.
Another time Snow Withe died, but came back to life when the 7 dwarfs took the poisoned comb.

The queen asked the same question as always to her mirror and the mirror answered the same as last time. The queen
couldn’t stand the fact that Snow Withe was still alive, so she made a poisoned apple. When the queen, again disguised as
peddler woman, managed to convince Snow Withe to take the apple and fell dead, once again. Finally, when the queen
asked her mirror who is the fairest of all, the mirror replied again that she is the fairest of all. Now, the queen felt much
calmer and at peace.

When the 7 dwarfs saw Snow Withe’s dead body, they cried for 3 days and let her on a bier. They noticed his body never
turned up as dead. One day a young prince asked the 7 dwarfs for shelter and fell in love with the beauty of Snow Withe.
At first the 7 dwarfs refused to give Snow Withe’s coffin to him, but eventually accepted. Time passed and the young prince
could not be far from Snow Withe. One day, the servant who had to carry Snow Withe’s coffin everywhere gets angry and
hits the back of Snow Withe’s body. This causes the poisoned apple piece to come out of your body and come back to life.
Snow Withe marries the prince.

And the queen asks the same question as always to her mirror, this time the mirror tells her that the fairest of all is the young
queen. The queen goes to the wedding of the young queen, to see who she is and realizes that she is Snow Withe. Finally,
they put a pair of iron shoes into the fire until they glowed and she had to wear them and dance in them. She danced to
death until her feet were terribly burned and she couldn't stop.

Lesson of the history

Don’t let any strangers into the house. The repeated times Snow Withe died; it was because of letting a stranger into the
house of the 7 dwarfs.