She rescues her brother from the stable, and the two of them plunder the old woman’s house, finding boxes full of gems and pearls. Gretel then shoves the witch all the way in the oven and closes the door, leaving the old hag on Gas Mark 6 for two-and-a-half hours. She heats the oven, and asks Gretel to step inside to see if it’s hot enough.īut Gretel guesses what the evil woman plans to do, so she feigns ignorance and gets the witch to demonstrate how she should look in the oven. But the witch decides to cook and eat him anyway. doi: 10.1386/btwo.2.1-2.But Hansel sticks out an animal bone which the half-blind witch mistakes for a bony finger he thus staves off his fate day by day. A fairy tale is more than just a fairy tale, Book 2.0, 2(1), pp. The Oxford companion to fairy tales United States. The hard facts on Grimms fairy tales expanded edition. Khecyoyan (Eds), Book power in communication. The role of fairy tales in the self-realization process. Fairy tales and moral value: A corpus-based approach. Storytelling: An encyclopedia of mythology and folklore. A dictionary of literary and thematic terms. A dictionary of cultural and critical theory second edition. The owl, the raven, and the dove: the religious meaning of the Grimms' magic fairy tales. Dictionary of literary terms revised edition. Four archetypes: Mother, rebirth, spirit, trickster. Myths, Folklore & Legends: We Still Need Our Fairy Tales | Heidi Shamsuddin | TEDxUniversityofMalaya. The Greenwood encyclopedia of folktales and fairy tale. The archetypes of hero and hero’s journey in five Grimm’s fairy tales. Bloomsbury.Įnglish Standard Version Bible. Brothers Grimm | Biography, Stories, & Works. The Penguin Dictionary of literary terms and literary theory. The encyclopedia of literary and cultural theory (1st ed., 1, pp. Companion to literary myths, heroes, and Archetypes. The uses of enchantment: The meaning and importance of fairy tales. The concise Oxford dictionary of literary terms. Keywords: Archetypes, fairytales, Hansel and Gretel, hero’s journeyĪnderson, G. Through its few pages, Hansel and Gretel offers readers rich moral lessons about courage, regression, shrewdness, loyalty, evil, compassion and destiny through the use of the archetypal journey and its various elements. ![]() This study has concluded that Hansel and Gretel skilfully employ numerous archetypal elements such as the evil women, order versus chaos, thresholds and helpers, and the trickster and the witch within the archetypal framework of a hero's journey to allow its protagonists to achieve psychological and moral maturity and material rewards. The methodology of this study is based on the archetypal stages of the hero’s journey or quest as elaborated by Joseph Campbell in his seminal work, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. ![]() Accordingly, this study analyses the use of archetypes in the Grimms’ collection - through the example of Hansel and Gretel - to explore their full significance as these archetypes could potentially be a reason behind the enduring popularity of this story and the collection in general. The examination of archetypes can be a laborious task given their rich psychological and cultural significance and their widespread use among seemingly distinct civilizations and genres. This is true of the popular story, Hansel and Gretel. There are numerous fairy tales in the European tradition, and especially in the Grimms’ collection, that employ numerous archetypal themes, characters and motifs.
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