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Analysis Of The Blue Light In Grimm's Fairy Tales

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In “the blue light” by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s within ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’, the old values placed within the stories needed readjustment to match today’s values that should be portrayed to today’s youth. These old motifs within the ‘Grimm’ brother’s stories are sought to gruesome, cruel, or do not match the values we want to showcase to today’s youth. The key changes made to the motifs in the rewrite of the blue light are; the idea of a young girl being the heroine in the story rather than just a beautiful princess, the change to the purpose of the ‘helper’ or fairy godmother, the rearrangement of the revenge motif, and a change to the motif of women as a ‘prize’. These changes were crucial in making the story match today values, and ideas that should be portrayed to today 's children. In rewriting ‘the blue light’ an adjustment to the gender of the main character was made, this changed the old motif of the ‘heroic and strong’ man to a ‘heroine’ young women within the kingdom. The change in the motifs purpose was relevant as males tend to be seen as the heroic figure in most folktales. Where in the reality of today’s world, women are just as capable as men and children, especially young girls, should be told this from a young age. In the rewrite of the story, the young girl turns in to a heroine for the kingdom, which is uncommon for most stories of this context, and shows that women have the same strength men have to do good for the community or ‘kingdom.’ The old
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