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The Blue Light In Jacob And Wilhelm Grimm's Fairy Tales

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In rewriting “the blue light” in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Grimm’s Fairy Tales’, old values placed within the stories needed readjustment to today’s values that are important for the youth of today to understand. These old motifs from the ‘Grimm’ brother’s stories are sought to gruesome, cruel, or not match the values we want to put in today’s youth. The key changes to 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 motif of the ‘helper’ or fairy god mother, the change to the revenge motif, and finally a change to the prize in the end of the story. These changes I sought crucial in changing to make the story match today values, and ideas we want to place in young children’s minds. In changing ‘the blue light’ I changed the gender of the main character and the ‘fairy’, as this changed the old motif of the ‘heroic and strong’ man to a ‘heroine’ within the kingdom. This change was relevant as males tend to be …show more content…

The motif of revenge is not a message that should be relayed to today’s children as one wrong does not make it okay for the other to also make a wrong. Stealing all he prizes positions to get back at the ’warlock’ is not a motif that needs be portrayed to today’s children, instead the change of taking a bit of food and water, although not better, shows the young girl taking the necessities she needs to make it back in to the town, and is not used in revenge context. This change erases the motif of revenge towards the warlock, and gives an example to the reader that even though they have been done wrong, they do not need to do wrong, and can move on to more positive

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