In article <[email hidden]>,
h squared said:Howard Kveck said:It doesn't seem all that far off what the Brothers Grimm wrote.
i agree that fairy tales often are quite horrible. the difference to me
being most of them have the protagonist struggle using their talents,
etc, to come out on top in the end.
i have in a book the version (which happens to be french, hmmm) of
little red riding hood where this doesn't happen- the wolf simply eats
the grandma and l.r.r.h. but when the grimm brothers "covered" this
story, they gave it a happier ending-
Then there's: http://tinyurl.com/96ov2
Quoted message said:"Some school boards in the U.S. have been pressured to blacklist this
fairy tale because of its "overtly" sexual content. Yet the Grimms
consciously made their tale more innocent and less erotic than earlier
versions. They also restored a "happy ending," which true folktales
always have. An earlier, more literary French version left Little Red in
the Wolf's stomach - the better to scare you with its moral!
Contrary to popular ideas, the Grimm Brothers did not simply write down
the exact words of an oral storyteller. They conflated their tale from
three sources: a French tale, "Le petit chaperon rouge," published by
Charles Perrault in 1697; the single oral version they could find,
collected from a well-educated French Huguenot woman named Jeanette
Hassenpflug, who probably also knew Perrault's tale; and a play, "Leben
und Tod des kleinen Rotkäppchens: eine Tragödie," written in 1800 by the
German Romantic writer Ludwig Tieck. Tieck invented the hunter who
rescues Rotkäppchen and her grandmother from the Wolf. "
http://mld.ursinus.edu/Maerchen/rrhintro.html
From that:
"The Grimms also offered an alternative ending ("Es wird auch
erzahlt..." ), which depicts the grandmother - not as a helpless victim -
but as a capable, clever woman who saves herself and her granddaughter from
the Wolf without any help from men.
"This second ending resembles, at least in spirit, the original Italian
oral version, in which a woman (in this case Little Red) shows mastery, not
helplessness and naiveté, when she encounters "the wild" (see Italo
Calvino's "The False Grandmother" ["la finta nonna"] - see also "Il lupo e
le tre ragazze" or "The Wolf and the Three Girls"😉. Some scholars
hypothesize that over the centuries the "Little Red Riding Hood" tale was
altered by men to play down and perhaps suppress women's capabilities and
independence."
I guess that stuff is on the special features section of the DVD...
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tanx,
Howard
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