...2014 Adapting Mechanisms in “Hansel and Gretel” Jacob and Wilhelm’s “Hansel and Gretel” is a fantasy about two children, Hansel and Gretel, which are left in the woods to die after their parents leave them. Hansel and Gretel are wandering throughout the woods to find their way back, until they come upon an old little house. This is not an ordinary house, but a house made of bread, a roof made of cake and windows made of sugar. Inside lived an old woman, whom of which pretended to be nice, but little did Hansel and Gretel know she is a wicked witch. This fantasy shows the argument from which Hansel and Gretel are left to die in the woods as a coping strategy. Hansel and Gretel’s parents are very poor. Their father is a woodcutter, and rarely can find food to support his family as this great famine has come to the land. He and his wife lay in bed and his wife says to him, “Early tomorrow morning we will take the two children out into the thickest part of the woods…then leave them by themselves and go off to our work…and we will be rid of them” (53). The stepmother gives the father no peace until he accepts this offer, about to let their children perish in the woods. Hansel, who overhears the conversation between his stepmother and father, goes outside to collect as many pebbles that he could fit in his jacket. When morning comes, the stepmother wakes the children and tells them to get ready to go into the woods to collect wood. Hansel and Gretel know what is bound to happen...
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...In a tiny village called York, on a cold dreary day the funeral procession for the late Hagatha L. Worstshire was about to begin. A small group of relatives and friends gathered for this sad day to pay their respects to an old woman who had recently been found dead inside her oven. The old woman was a quiet soul who lived alone in a house made of gingerbread and cakes with windows made of sugar. However, Hagatha didn’t always live in a house made of confection. While a resident of YorkVillage, she lived in a simple three room cottage. The cottage interior had an open concept floor plan. One room held the kitchen and dining area, the 2nd room was a bedroom and Hagatha turned the 3rdroom into a play room for the children who enjoyed her company. Hagatha never had children but she found great joy in baking and making sweet treats for the children of her village. Every Sunday Hagatha would spend the entire day making cakes, cookies and candies to be shared with the children of York Village. After church, the children would all gather at Ms. Hagatha’s home and feast on the vast number of treats the nice woman spent her day creating. Hagatha would always warn the children against over consumption. She would tell them how even the best things in life require moderation and should be consumed in small amounts or the consequence would be unfavorable. While most of the children heeded the old woman’s advice, there were two young girls who felt the old woman was senile and was...
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...Two children, Hansel and Gretel, try to find a healthy and safe place to live. Before they are born, the king’s favorite slave was turned to stone. Then, Hansel and Gretel were born. The king wanted him to come alive again. The statue spoke to him and his wife, saying, “ There is a way, king. You must cut off the heads of your children and smear my statue with their blood. And then, and only then, will I return to life.” So, the king chopped off Hansel and Gretel’s heads. The faithful servant brought Hansel and Gretel back to life. After Hansel and Gretel found out about that, they ran away from their home. They faced terror, filled with ravens, keys, and killings. The writing style Adam Gidwitz gives us is very interesting. He writes witty...
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...What effects exactly do fairy tales have on children? In some stories, how come it is okay to get away with murder and still be the good guy? In “The Struggle For Meaning,” Bruno Bettelheim explains the psychoanalytical effect of fairy tales on children going through changes and struggles of growing up. Bettelheim provides analysis on how fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel offer children with support such as getting rid of separation anxiety and death anxiety, thematically prevalent in many stories. Separation anxiety is the natural unease a child feels when separated from a parental figure and death anxiety is the fear of death and detachment. While Bettelheim successfully describes how fairy tales provide a way for children to subconsciously battle their inner anxieties, more can be said about these developmental effects through the story of Hansel and Gretel. Bettelheim delves into the psychoanalytical aspect of fairy tales and their impact on the growth of children. He first introduces our innate desire to find meaning in life and the role fairy tales play in the lives of children as they attempt to understand this meaning and the world around them. Bettelheim suggests that “literature carries information best” (324), especially fairy tales which “stimulate imagination [and] help to develop intellect and clarify emotions” (325). Fairy tales enrich development subconsciously in children when they are most developmentally vulnerable and, as a result, assess real life situations...
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...Story of Hansel and Gretel Foreshadowing forces the reader to expect certain events to occur in a novel and therefore he/she continues to read. Louise Murphy’s The True Story of Hansel and Gretel contains many examples of foreshadowing. It is a historical fiction novel based during World War II focusing mainly on the theme of survival. The major conflicts in the novel keep the reader interested because they foreshadow events that will harm the protagonists of the novel. Examples of major conflicts are; Hansel and Gretel are left alone to survive on their own, their father is unable to live with to live with himself because of the decision to leave his children to fend for themselves and the SS Oberführer of village Piaski is out to kill Hansel, Gretel and Magda in revenge of her niece running away from the village. The first major conflict of Hansel and Gretel forced to survive alone during the harsh winter season keeps the reader interested. This man versus man conflict keeps the reader interested because this novel takes place during the winter in a forest and in World War II. First of all, it is unsafe for Hansel and Gretel to be alone in the forest because of their being Jewish, for if they are seen by a Nazi they might be killed. As well it is unsafe for Hansel and Gretel to be fending for themselves during the winter season because it will be difficult for them to find food, shelter, to stay warm, or even stay alive, for example, the lines read: “Gretel knew [Hansel and...
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...mentioned earlier the older kids were not being very sociable with each other. Unless you count them socializing on the social media sites. Besides that it was pretty quite in their little section, they seam very cool and laid back. Some of the younger kids on the other hand were discussing the film they had just seen. Topics of discussion. For the younger kids the only topic that was discussed was the movie Parental Guidance, which they had just seen. They were talking about their favorite parts and different high lights of the movie. As for the older kids the only topic that came up was when I asked one of the girls what movie they saw. That was the only way I was going to get some type of conversation out of them. So she said Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and that’s when two other kids chimed in and said how it was action packed and...
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...other words. Expectations for a guy named Bubba or a woman named Shaquita are different than they are for people with the names Winston and Hillary. In other words people make assumptions about others base on their names. In Alice Hoffman’s novel Local Girls, the narrator plays with this idea of the interplay of destiny, socialization, and free will, symbolized by the names she gives the central characters. The character whose name is the most apparently burdening is Gretel. A name that is unusual in 20th century United States society, this name is imbued with fairy-tale associations. In the famous German fairy-tale “Hansel and Gretel”, Gretel and her brother are abandoned by their parents, specifically an abusive stepmother, in the forest. In Local Girls, Gretel and her brother Jason are abused by their stepmother, who yells at them repeatedly, even calling Gretel a “little bitch” (49). In the fairy tale, the stepmother leaves the children in the woods because the resources at home are too sparse. Similarly, Gretel and Jason’s stepmother, Thea, tries to push her stepchildren out of the house: Thea was talking about what a great place we were going to for dinner, and how they liked people to dress nicely, which of course was a dig at me, not that I cared about her sense of style. Then she started in on her real agenda – how the house she and my father had recently bought might look big, but it was really just right for two people. I guess she wanted to squelch any ideas...
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...Interpretation Hänsel und Gretel (Rewrite) Hänsel und Gretel ist ein berühmtes deutsches Märchen, das von den Gebrüdern Grimm gesammelt und veröffentlicht wurde. Die Hauptfiguren sind Hänsel und Gretel, die jungen Kinder eines armen Holzfällers. Wenn eine große Hungersnot vorkommt, plant die beleidigende Stiefmutter, die Kinder hinaus in den Wald zu führen und sie dort allein zu lassen, damit sie und der Vater genug Essen haben und vor Hunger nicht sterben. Aber die Kinder hörten, was die Stiefmutter zum Vater sagte. Hänsel sammelt viele weiße Kieselsteine, die sehr hell unter der Mond scheinen. Wenn die Familie am nächsten Tag in den Wald läuft, legt Hänsel einen Pfad mit den blanken Kieselsteinen. In der Nacht folgen die Kinder dem Pfad und kommen nach Hause. Die Stiefmutter entscheidet, die Kinder tiefer in den Wald noch mal zu nehmen. Diesmal haben die Kinder nur ein Stück Brot anstatt der Kieselsteine. Hänsel versucht, einen Brotkrümelpfad zu legen, aber alle Brotkrümel werden von den Vögeln im Wald gefressen, als die Kinder versuchen nach Hause zu gehen. Zufällig kommen die Kinder zum Haus einer Hexe, die sie essen will. Aber die Kinder besiegen die Hexe und kommen nach Hause mit dem Schatz der Hexe. Sie finden heraus, dass die Stiefmutter auch gestorben ist, und sie leben in lauter Freude zusammen. Aus meiner Sicht ist die Moral dieses Märchens, dass man irgendwelche Hindernisse überwunden kann, sofern man mutig und hartnäckig ist. Ein interessanter Aspekt Hänsel und Gretel ist...
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...detailed cartoon style watercolor and black ink line illustrations. The simple text works well with the sprinkling of subtle humorous illustrations, like the empty box of after dinner mints next to the loud snoring wolf. Red Riding Hood encounters a wolf on the way to her grandmother’s house, and is later tricked into thinking the wolf is her grandmother. At the end Red Riding Hood proves she has learned a lesson about talking to strangers. This book would be most appealing to K-2nd grade students. This story could be used as a starting point to begin discussion about not talking to strangers. Students could also make predictions about what they think will happen when Red Riding Hood encounters another stranger on the last page. Hazel and Gretel by James Marshall is about two...
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...following morning, the family treks into the woods. Hansel takes a slice of bread and leaves a trail of bread crumbs to follow home. However, after they are once again abandoned, the children find that birds have eaten the crumbs and they are lost in the woods. After days of wandering, they follow a beautiful white bird to a clearing in the woods and discover a large cottage built of gingerbread and cakes, with window panes of clear sugar. Hungry and tired, the children begin to eat the rooftop of the candy house, when the door opens and a "very old woman" emerges and lures them inside, with the promise of soft beds and delicious food. They comply, unaware that their hostess is a wicked witch who waylays children to cook and eat them. The next morning, the witch locks Hansel in an iron cage in the garden and forces Gretel into becoming a slave. The witch feeds Hansel regularly to fatten him up, but Hansel cleverly offers a bone he found in the cage (presumably a bone from the witch's previous captive) and the witch feels it, thinking it is his finger. Due to her blindness, she is fooled into thinking Hansel is still too thin to eat. After weeks of this, the witch grows impatient and decides to eat Hansel, "be he fat or lean." She prepares the oven for Hansel, but decides she is hungry enough to eat Gretel, too. She coaxes Gretel to the open the oven and prods her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough. Gretel, sensing the witch's intent, pretends she does...
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...rate of the big eight countries. * The next US president will be a Yale graduate. * It was too hot today. * There are four economic resources. What are they and give an example of how a change in each impact Gross Domestic Product. * Explain why each of the following would or would not be included in this year's GPD.. * Jack and Jill purchase a 100 year old farm house. * Al Coholic purchases a fifth of Grey Goose. * Poly Ester, owner of “New Again” a retail store, purchases some new fabric to reupholster an old sofa. * Dick Tator purchases new tanks for his army. * Old Mother Hubbard buys new bones for her dogs with funds given to her by the state government. * Hansel and Gretel purchase cloths for the new school year at the local thrift shop. * Defend the following statement: “There are no needs in society, just wants”. You can not disagree with this statement. * There are Three Fundamental Questions an economy must answer. * What are they? * Explain in detail how the economic answers one of them * List three (3)...
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...Katherine Mansfield Excels “in expressing a child’s sense of things” (MacCarthy). How does Mansfield present childhood in “Sun and Moon” and “Prelude”? Mansfield presents childhood as a time where everything in the world is fascinating and as a time where one is allowed to be ignorant and innocent, as well as a time during which many things can seem violent or intimidating. One way in which Mansfield presents childhood is as a fairy-tale. For example, in the story “Sun and Moon”, Sun is fascinated by the beauty of the dinner table, when it turns out to be like a mask hiding the ugly truth. He is particularly taken with the ice-house: “Oh! Oh! Oh! It was a little house.” This house resembles the house from Hansel and Gretel, and this fairy-tale is about a pair of innocent children being captured by a witch; slightly sinister. At the end of the story, Sun is taken into the dining room by his parents and the ice-house is all smashed: “broken – broken – half melted away.” This is upsetting for Sun, but what is more upsetting is when his sister, Moon, eats the little nut that is the door handle, because he was so enthralled by it earlier on. What this tells us about the way Mansfield is trying to represent childhood is as a time when everything seems overwhelming, and that parents do not always understand their children, because Sun is sent to his room by his father for being upset about the events. Mansfield also presents childhood as mysterious and exciting. For instance, in “Prelude”...
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...The Grimm brothers are well-known story-tellers. Most of those who have seen the classic Disney movies like Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs have experienced an innocent version of the gruesome and dark tales that are the Grimm fairy-tales. In the beginning of their journey, the brothers had no intention of becoming story-tellers. The article “Grimms' Fairy Tales” states that the brothers found that the best way to allow someone to share the sounds of their dialect was to share the stories that had been passed down to them; the brothers kept a record of the stories they heard and had a book published in 1812 called Kinder und Hausmarchen, which translates to “Tales of Children and the Home”. Fairy tales during the brothers' time didn't have the same purpose as the ones today do. Bayer explains that during the Grimms' time, fairy tales were told to teach lessons and to pass on cultural values and wisdom to younger generations, not to entertain them. Because the purpose of these tales wasn't to entertain, the story-tellers weren't concerned about frightening their younger audiences (“Grimms' Fairy Tales”). Norton states that the tales were told around the fire to children and adults alike. Norton also tells us that, because these stories were dark and provocative, society decided that the nature of the tales had to change. Society had to protect their children from the gruesome nature of the Grimm fairy tales. Society may take the bulk of the blame for the changing...
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...We began our project by deciding which tales we wanted to focus on. As a group we narrowed it down to Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella and Snow White. We really wanted Hansel and Gretel as we believed we had more ideas and could have a lot of fun with that tale. In the end, after turning in our three choices, you, Professor Cordova, informed us there was no overlap with choices and we were able to do Hansel and Gretel. While discussing in class what we were going to do was easy, talking outside of class was more difficult. Everyone in our group has a very busy and complicated schedule. I commute an hour and a half to campus, Lacie works as a 24-hour caregiver, Melanie has a little girl at home and Donielle and Caitlyn have very busy work and school...
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...might the actors playing the roles of Hansel and Gretel in the traditional tale, create the unique actor audience relationship that this theatrical genre relies on? What’s the relationship between actors and audience? In every theatrical performance the manner in which each individual actor treats the audience establishes, sustains or varies a particular kind of actor-audience relationship between them. In some plays all of the actors may adopt the same attitude towards the audience (for example, the entire cast of a production of a Chekhovian drama will usually ignore the audience until the curtain call); in other plays the performers create a range of different relationships towards the audience (for example, most Shakespearean dramas have certain characters who frequently adopt a downstage ‘platea’ playing position that is in direct contact with the audience, while other characters behave as if unaware of the audience’s presence). Audience is an essential part of the theatrical event. With the actor it comprises one of the two indispensable elements of theatre. There seems to be no dispute over this fact. Yet the audience is the most elusive element of the theatre to deal with, source material is scarce and complex; it does not submit to simple analysis or definition. Primary sources tend to mention curiosities connected with the extravagant behavior of spectators, or to ignore the audience altogether. But in Hansel and Gretel, I know Jonathan Aitken and Sheldon...
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