Jan 30, 2020  Gretel & Hansel (2020) A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. Story change change source Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister who learn their parents intend to abandon them in the forest. They find their way home by leaving a trail of pebbles. One day however, their parents succeed. The children wander the forest and come upon a house made of cake and candy.

TriviaAt one point a song floats over the soundtrack: 'My mother, she killed me, my father, he ate me, and my little sister, my bones she kept, what a pretty bird am I!' This comes from another Grimm fairy tale, 'The Juniper Tree,'widely considered by scholars as the darkest of all their tales. In it, a spiteful mother beheads her stepson and blames it on her daughter.

She then cooks the corpse and feeds it to his husband, as the daughter picks up the bones from under the table and plants it under a juniper tree on the family's garden. A small birds appears from the grave, singing the song in question while picking a pair of new shoes, a gold chain and a mill stone, and then carries them to the house.

The bird then gives the shoes to the daughter, the chain to the father and drops the stone on the stepmother, killing her. As she dies, the bird turns into a boy again and the story ends. The film borrows some thematic elements this tale.

Contents.Plot The story is set in medieval. Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor. When a settles over the land, the woodcutter's wife (stepmother to Hansel and Gretel) decides to take the children into the woods and leave them there to fend for themselves so she and her husband will not starve to death. The woodcutter opposes the plan but finally reluctantly submits to his wife's scheme, unaware that Hansel and Gretel have overheard them.

After the parents have gone to bed, Hansel sneaks out of the house and gathers as many white as he can, then returns to his room, reassuring Gretel that God will not forsake them.The next day, the family walks deep into the woods and Hansel lays a trail of white pebbles. Their father lights a fire for them in the woods, and goes to gather more wood. After a while, the kids realize the father isn't coming back. Gretel cries, but Hansel tells her all will be fine. After nightfall, they follow his shiny pebbles back to the house, arriving by morning. Their father is overjoyed, and takes them back in as he was very upset about leaving them in the first place.After a while, famine strikes again, and the stepmother insists that they take the kids back to the forest to leave them. This time, she locks the door to their room so Hansel is unable to gather pebbles.

Clever Hansel crumbles up the small piece of bread he is given by his parents, and sprinkles crumbs along their path. Unfortunately, birds eat the crumbs, and they can't find their way home.

After searching for a very long time, they come uponThey eat from the house, as they're very hungry. While they are eating, a comes out and invites them inside, offering them a meal, and pretending to be a kind and friendly old woman.

After feeding them, she traps them in her house and makes them do chores each day, feeding them well in order to fatten them up for eating.One day, the witch decides it is time to eat, and has Gretel light the oven and provide water for boiling her brother. After a while, the witch asks Gretel to hop in the oven to make sure it is hot enough to bake bread. Gretel, sensing the witch's intent, pretends she does not understand what the witch means. Infuriated, the witch hops into the oven herself to demonstrate what she wants, and Gretel pushes the door closed behind her, leaving 'the ungodly creature to be burned to ashes'. Gretel frees Hansel from the cage, and the pair discover a vase full of treasure and precious stones. Putting the jewels into their clothing, the children set off for home.

They arrive home to hear that their stepmother has died from unknown causes and their father has not had a happy day since they left their home. They live happily ever after with the witch's wealth.History and background.

Illustration byand heard 'Hansel and Gretel' from Wilhelm's friend and future wife Dortchen Wild and published it in in 1812.In the Grimms' original version of the tale, the woodcutter's wife is the children's biological mother, but this was changed to the stepmother in the 5th edition. Wilhelm Grimm adulterated the text with Alsatian dialects, 're-appropriated' from 's Alsace version, in order to give the tale a more 'folksy' tone.The sequence where the swan helps them across the river is an addition in later editions.

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Another revision was that some versions claimed the mother died from unknown causes, left the family, or remained with the husband at the end of the story.The fairy tale may have originated in the medieval period of the (1315–1317), which caused desperate people to abandon young children to fend for themselves or even resort to cannibalism.Analysis Folklorists and indicate in The Classic Fairy Tales (1974) that 'Hansel and Gretel' belongs to a group of European tales especially popular in the Baltic regions, about children outwitting into whose hands they have involuntarily fallen. The tale has resemblances to the first half of 's ' (1697) and 's ' (1721). In both tales, abandoned children find their way home by following a trail. In 'Clever Cinders', the heroine incinerates a giant by shoving him into an oven in a manner similar to Gretel's dispatch of the witch, and a ruse involving a twig in a Swedish tale resembles Hansel's trick of the dry bone. Linguist and folklorist has proposed that these stories represent the remnant of a coming-of-age, rite-of-passage tale extant in.

A house made of confectionery is found in a 14th-century manuscript about the.The fact that the mother or stepmother dies after the children kill the witch has suggested to many commentators that the mother or stepmother and the witch are metaphorically the same woman. Analogues The tale is classified as 327A under the general title 'The Children and the Ogre'.In the Russian, the stepmother likewise sends her hated stepdaughter into the forest to borrow a light from her sister, who turns out to be, a cannibalistic witch. Besides highlighting the endangerment of children (as well as their own cleverness), the tales have in common a preoccupation with eating and with hurting children: The mother or stepmother wants to avoid hunger, and the witch lures children to eat her house of candy so that she can then eat them. Another tale of this type is the French fairy tale.

The Brothers Grimm also identified the French Finette Cendron and Hop o' My Thumb as parallel stories.A similar fairytale from Hungary is called Cerceruska. Cultural significance. Staatsoper Wien 2015The fairy tale enjoyed a multitude of adaptations for the stage, among them the opera by —one of today's most performed operas. A contemporary reimagining of the story, 's musical fairytale Ami & Tami, was produced in Israel and the United States and subsequently released as a symphonic album. Elements from the story were used in the 1994 horror film for its climax.

Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs inspired the name of the navigation element ' that allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents. The most recent adaption of the fairy tale is, a 2020 American horror film directed by.See also.