The Frog Prince tale was from the 1800s in Germany through oral storytelling. However, the Grimm brothers adapted the story into a written paper work. Brothers Grimm are known to be the ones to develop series of fairy tales such as Snow White and Rapunzel for children to read. Originally, though, the Grimm tales included forms of violence, sex, and incest. However, once it became popular amongst children, the brothers adjusted their stories into children’s fairy tales. Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm were the oldest in the family that consisted of five brothers and one sister. Following after their father’s footsteps, Jacob and Wilhelm attended the University of Marburg to become involved in civil service. However, at Marburg, they fell in …show more content…
The Brothers start the story with the setting of evening night and vividly describe how the princess plays with her golden ball. By describing how the princess threw her ball and the process of it rolling into the spring show that there is a purpose of the encounter between the princess and the frog prince. The readers are able visualize the scene of their encounter without much complex thinking.They may have done this in order to emphasize the symbolism of the golden ball, which indicates wealth and the unbreakable promise the princess made with the frog. The Grimm Brothers also use negative connotations such as “nasty,” “silly,” and “nonsense” to draw a relationship between the princess and the frog. The usage of nasty and silly indicate the frog’s ugliness in the standards of the princess and the word nonsense show that the princess looks down on the frog. All three words combined describe the frog’s characteristics and how unappealing it is in the world’s standards. With the negative connotations and the imagery developed in this passage, the Grimm Brothers may be emphasizing the moral or the theme of the story to not judge others by their looks, but rather their internal sides. This is because the way princess treats the frog differs between the first encounter and after she gets to know him better. With the combination of imagery, symbolism, and diction, the authors create the pathway to the moral of their