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This 6 page essay examines the role of animals in many popular Grimm Fairy Tales. The stories examined are Cinderella, The Frog King and Little Red Riding Hood. The paper examines both the use of animals in these stories, as well as the likely symbolism that their appearance could convey. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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tales that were collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. These tales, which have been modified for books, movies and even plays, have amused children and adults for generations. And thanks
to the Disney empire, many of these fairy tales have spawned vast merchandising and marketing efforts. The Grimm brothers, however, had other
purposes in developing their tales - they used them to strike back at people who had made fun of them because of the poor circumstances in which they were born.
Throughout many of the tales, the Brothers Grimm relied on animals as symbols of their discontent. In so doing, they carved out their own niches as the "fathers of the
fairy tale." A Grimm background Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born during the mid-1780s, a time during which Europe was in political
turmoil (Schulte-Peevers). Because of their poverty-stricken upbringing, the Grimms were treated to much discrimination and injustice during their childhood and even as young adults (Schulte-Peevers). Although they began their college
education in law, both brothers eventually gravitated toward literature, publishing their first collection of "fairy tales" in 1812 (Schulte-Peevers). The Grimms collected a good many of the tales from middle-
and upper-class Germans, yet even those tales were traced from India and the Middle East (Schulte-Peevers). They were passed down orally, as the tradition of all folklore was (Schulte-Peevers). In
compiling these tales, the Grimms emphasized industry, discipline and morality, frequently introducing Christian references and focusing on a male-oriented view of the world (Schulte-Peevers). Interestingly enough, the tales did not
become popular until they were illustrated (Schulte-Peevers). The fairy tales, however, have been sanitized, over the years, from their original versions (Schulte-Peevers).
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