" Hansel and Gretel " (also known as Hansel and Grettel , Hansel and Grethel , or Little Brother and Little Sister >>) ( or and ; German: HÃÆ'¤nsel und Gretel ( HÃÆ'¤nsel und Grethel ) ['h? nzl ?? nt '? e: tl?] ) is a famous German fairy tale, recorded by Brothers Grimm and published in 1812. Hansel and Gretel are young brothers and sisters who were kidnapped by a living cannibal wizard deep in the jungle of a house built of cakes and sweets. The two boys fled with their lives by defeating him. This story has been adapted to various media, especially opera HÃÆ'¤nsel und Gretel (1893) by Engelbert Humperdinck. Under the Aarne-Thompson classification system, "Hansel and Gretel" is classified under Class 327.
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Plot
In Germany, Hansel and Gretel are children of poor loggers. When the great famine subsided on the ground, the woodcutter's wife decided to take the children to the forest and leave them there to take care of themselves, so that she and her husband did not starve to death, because the children ate too much. The woodcutter opposes the plan but ultimately, and reluctantly, submits to his wife's scheme. They did not realize that in the children's bedroom, Hansel and Gretel had heard it. After the parents went to sleep, Hansel slipped out of the house and collected as many white pebbles as he could, then returned to his room, assuring Gretel that God would not abandon them.
The next day, the family walked deep into the forest and Hansel put a white pebble trail. After their parents left them, Hansel and Gretel followed the trail back home. When the wife saw them, she was very angry and locked them in the house. Hansel and Gretel can not escape or even just collect pebbles.
The next morning, the family went into the forest. Hansel picked up a loaf of bread and left a trail of bread crumbs for them to follow home. However, once they are once again abandoned, they discover that the birds have eaten those crumbs and they are lost in the forest. After many days of wandering, they follow a beautiful white bird into the clearing in the forest, and find a large cottage built of gingerbread, cookies, candy, and with clear glass windows. Hungry and tired, the children started to eat the rooftops, when the door opened and the "very old lady" appeared and lured the children inside, with the promise of a soft bed and delicious food and hot bath. They do this without realizing that their hostess is actually a bloodthirsty magician who directs the children to cook and eat it.
The next morning, the wizard cleans the cage in the garden from the previous prisoner. Then he threw Hansel into the cage and forced Gretel into his slave. The wizard feeds Hansel regularly to fatten him up. Hansel was smart and when the magician asked Hansel to stick his finger out so he saw how fat he was, he stuck out the bone he found in the cage each time. The wizard was too impatient and decided to eat Hansel.
The next day, the witch prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel as well. She persuades Gretel to open the oven and pushes her to bend over her to see if the fire is hot enough. Gretel, sensing the magician's intentions, pretending she did not understand what she meant. Enraged, the wizard demonstrates and Gretel immediately pushes the woman into the oven, slams and closes the door, leaving "the faceless creature burned to ashes", screaming in pain until she dies. Gretel frees Hansel from the cage and the couple finds a vase full of treasures and precious stones. Put the gems into their clothes, the children go to the house.
A duck hauls them across the water and at home they only find their father revealing that their mother died of an unknown cause. Their father spent all his days mourning the loss of his children and was happy to see them safe and sound. With the wealth of magicians, they all live happily ever after.
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History and analysis
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm heard "Hansel and Gretel" from Wilhelm's friend (and future wife) Dortchen Wild and published it in Kinder- und HausmÃÆ'¤rchen in 1812. In the Grimms version of the story, Woodcutter's Wife the real mother of the children and the mistake of ignoring it is shared between himself and the woodcutter himself. In subsequent editions, several small revisions were made: the wife became the stepmother of the children, the woodcutter opposed his plans to abandon children and religious references were made. The order in which the goose helps them cross the river is also an addition to the next edition. Another revision is that some versions claim that the mother died of an unknown cause, leave the family, or live with her husband at the end of the story.
The tale probably dates from the medieval period of the Great Famine (1315-1321), which causes people desperate to leave little children to fend for themselves, or even resort to cannibalism.
Folklorist Iona and Peter Opie indicated in The Classic Fairy Tales (1974) that "Hansel and Gretel" belongs to a very popular group of Europeans in the Baltic region, about the boys who outwit the ogre that they are handed to. without falling consciously. This story is similar to the first half of "Hop-o'-My-Thumb" Charles Perrault (1697) and "Finette Cendron" belonging to Madame d'Aulnoy (1721). In the two fairy tales, Opies records, the abandoned children find their way home by following in the footsteps. In "Clever Cinder", Opies observes that the heroine burns the giant by pushing it into the oven in a way similar to Gretel's delivery of witches and they show that the ruse involving twigs in the Swedish story resembles a Hansel trick about the shin. Linguist and folklore writer Edward Vajda has proposed that these stories represent the remains of an already-existing ride-of-passage story in the Proto-Indo-European community. A house made of confectionery was found in a 14th century manuscript of Cockayne Land.
The fact that a mother or stepmother dies when children have killed a witch has suggested to many commentators that the wives or stepmothers and witches are metaphorically the same woman. A Russian folklore is where the evil stepmother (also the wife of a poor woodcutter) asks her stepdaughter who hates going to the forest to borrow light from her sister, who turns out to be Baba Yaga, who is also a cannibal wizard. In addition to highlighting the harm to children (as well as their own intelligence), the stories have the same preoccupation with food and by hurting the children: the mother or stepmother wants to avoid hunger, while the witch lures the children to eat her candy house so that he can eat it. Another story of this type is the French fairy tale of The Lost Children . The Brothers Grimm also identifies French Finette Cendron and Hop o 'My Thumb as a parallel story.
Cultural significance
The breadcrumb trail of Hansel and Gretel inspires the name of the "breadcrumbs" navigation element that allows users to track their location within a program or document. Opera HÃÆ'¤nsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is one of the most famous operas, and is considered one of Germany's most important operas.
See also
- Truth About Hansel and Gretel
- "Brother and Sister"
- "Molly Whuppie"
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External links
- The Gutenberg e-text project
- SurLaLune Fairy Tale Pages: The Annotated Hansel and Gretel
- Original version and classic fairy tale psychological analysis, including Hansel and Gretel
- Hansel and Gretel Stories
- Stories illustrated collaboratively in Project Bookses
- Fairy Hale and Gretel Fairytale Translation
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