Comparing Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm

Every adult began his acquaintance with literature as a child, leafing through colorful books of fairy tales. Of course, in an adult life, fairy tales give way to novels, but the stories of favorite fairy tales remain in memory for many years. Fascinated by fairy tales, children from an early age learn to understand the difference between good and evil, get out of difficult situations and get acquainted with the world in which they will live. But all this can be found far from every book and not in every author. We are used to the fact that fairy tales are for kids. However, once upon a time, in the XVI century, fairy tales were quite an adult entertainment, and the first one was the Italian Giovanni Francesco Staparola. His collection

From the primary sources, the blood runs cold in the veins: graves, severed heels, sadistic punishments, rape and other not that much fairy-tale details. Jack Zipes, the professor of the German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota translated the original tales of Grimm into English. Working on folk stories, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm significantly softened the colors adapted stories for children's perception. For example, in the original version of Rapunzel written by Grimm, Rapunzel did not run away with the prince. Yes, he climbed the tower on her scythe, but not at all for the purpose of marrying. To freedom, she very quickly went, when the witch noticed that the corset of beauty stopped converging at the waist. (In German villages, where many young ladies worked as servants in well-to-do homes, this plot was not so fabulous.) The witch cut Rapunzel’s hair, and the prince was punished by a witch without eyes. But at the end of the fairy tale, all of them grow again, when blindly wandering through the woods the prince stumbled upon his twin children, who were looking for food for the hungry and miserable Rapunzel. (2) The witch-ogre from the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" was also the mother of the protagonists. Surprise, that Snow White's mother asks the huntsman to kill his daughter, and in proof to bring lungs and liver - "I'll fry and eat them," she says. After

However, he is a gloomy, tragic and traumatized figure; and his fairy tales are the same, gloomy and painful and written not at all for children. It is easy to "decode", from where it went. Hans Christian himself was really a complicated man, injured, with a rather heavy character. He grew up a very nervous child, emotional and receptive. At that time, the physical punishment of children in schools was common, so the boy was afraid to go to school, and his mother took him to a charity school where physical punishment was not practiced. Allen, Brooke wrote: “ Even in childhood, Andersen stood out as something of a freak. Unnaturally tall, gawky and ugly, he was also startlingly effeminate.” (5) This is the only one small fact of Anderson biography but already convinced us to think why his tales were so dark and not that charming as Disney