Grimm Brothers Assignment

Grimm Brothers’ Tales Assignment

The Grimm Brothers’ fairytales:
Love as the engine of the story
Grimm Brothers’ Fairytales are one of the most famous and popular fairytales all around the world. These tales deal with an enormous range of, not only characters, such kings, queens, peasants, animals, or servants for instances, but also themes, like gender, love, or family among others. In this work we are going to focus our discussion on the different use of love the Grimm
Brothers made on several of his tales and how it influence the decisions the characters make in the course of the story.
The first in which we can analyze this issue is The Girl without Hands. In this tale, love plays an essential role in the development of the
After walking a long time leaving behind his home, she finds a royal garden with trees of beautiful fruits inside. However, the garden is surrounded by water and she cannot enter, so she decides to pray for food because she was starving. Answering his praying, an angel appears to help her reaching those trees to feed herself. However, the gardener is looking after the garden and tells the owner of the garden- the king- everything. As a result, thinking the girl is a spirit they decide to come the next night with a priest, who asks the girl whether or not she is a spirit, to which the girl rejected. As a consequence, the king decides “He took her home with him to his royal castle, and because she was so beautiful and pure he loved her with all his heart, had silver hands made for her, and took her as his wife” (Ashliman). Again, we find that love is the trigger factor of events.
In the end of the story, after overcoming the continuous obstacles the devil set to our couple, the king finally finds his missing wife and son in a house deep in the forest. Nevertheless, she has recovered her and the king doubts whether or not they are his family indeed. At
By the end of that tale we discover that the princess tries to cheat the prince by making the princess speak in dreams the answer for the riddle, so the Grimm Brothers are showing as also the fears of the princess to fail and marry a stranger.
Finally, in The Twelve Brothers, we find again love presented as a strong bound between relatives. In that case, it is the love that the twelve brothers and their sister feel for each other which made them fight for each other, risking their lives. At first the twelve brothers have to run away because of the birth of their sister, which arouse hate among them to her sister. Despite this feeling, when they finally meet her, they change their minds, and as it is said in the tale, “They all rejoiced, falling around her neck and kissing her, and they loved her with all their hearts”
(Ashliman). And that love lead, on the one hand the sister to speak no words for seven years and be condemned to death to break the curse that turned her brothers into ravens, and on the other hand the twelve brothers to free her sister from the fire who were killing