Hansel And Gretel Short Story Analysis

Stories are, to a degree, a fascinating monologue of the thoughts and creative processes of the most important and influential writers in history. Stories are intent on creating things that were never thought to be realistic or real, or thought to spread some undergoing message promoting a certain ideal. Stories, such as fairy tales, are very upholding of these ideals that make a story; being somewhat whimsical and arbitrarily innocuous. That is, if one is referencing entertainment giant Disney. However, those who have read and adore the original versions of the “traditional” versions tend to have less-than-desirable opinions on the stories at hand, which in such a case is all a matter of a perception as well as environment. Thus, it

These backstories have the ability to allow the reader to emphasize with the character, insinuating some sort of “emotional” bond and connection with the character. The characters Hansel and Gretel from the Brothers Grimm classic Hansel and Gretel and portrayed the poor children as those who their parents do not care for. In the beginning half of Hansel and Gretel, the step-mother had proposed to their caring father that they were to get rid of the children so they could feed and fend for them, by first giving them a piece of bread and expecting them to go so deep into the forest so that they starve, and hopefully die (Hansel and Gretel, Brothers Grimm). It is implicit that these children are innocent and thus should be treated as such by the reader, the step-mother being made as inherently evil and greedy. This writing, being rather intentional to provoke some sort of villainous character, is also shown in Rapunzel and its Disney counterpart, Tangled. In both stories, Rapunzel is so characterized to be shown as an innocent princess capable of doing no harm, but was simply trapped under the wide, prying gaze of Mother Gothel and her tower, and, in the original story’s case, Rapunzel was a princess who had simply been the child of misfortune, her mother eating the plant she was named after due to her greed. Thus, as

This is true for the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty. The princess was unfortunate enough to undergo a curse by an evil fairy, but the evil fairy has absolutely no standard reason to do so, other than the fact that she is inherently “evil” and that the princess must be cursed. The princess in the story (Aurora) is described often as “fair-of-heart” and “kind”, but these traits make up a one-dimensional, underdeveloped character, who is capable of doing no wrong. Another example of this feat includes Ariel from Disney’s version of The Little Mermaid. While Ariel had done very impeccably wrong things, she did it for the sake of a prince, who had been only so kind as to fall in love with her voice. This unfortunately portrays Ariel as one-dimensional, since she, like many other Disney classics, had chosen to fall in love with a prince over trivial things, such as falling in love with one’s looks rather than their personality or true