Saturday, February 3, 2007
Blog # 2 Hansel & Gretel Variants
After reading all four versions of Hansel and Gretel, I found that the only real connection between all four was the fact that all the children had at one time been abandoned for one reason or another. The only version that I feel familiar with was the original Hansel and Gretel by the brothers Grimm. The other tale, Molly Whuppie, was strange. It didnt seem to flow as well as hansel and gretel- it was scattered. The other two, The RoseTree and the Juniper Tree were quite similiar and were probably contaminated by the same cultural group of people. I am having a hard time connecting all four in a concrete way, and was hoping that someone could add their views on how all four are similar. Thanks : D
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I agree: the four versions didn't really relate all that well, and the only one I had heard of was the Hansel and Gretel by the Grimm brothers. The Rose Tree and The Juniper Tree were pretty much identical except that in The Juniper Tree it was the brother who was killed and in The Rose Tree it was the sister. I did notice that in all the stories there was a parent, usually the stepmom, who did not want the kid/s around and tried to get rid of them somehow. I'm not really sure what the moral of the stories are supposed to be for children; it seems more like a moral for parents or step-parents.
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