Grimm's Ideal Family Structure

The Brothers Grimm adaptation of “Hansel and Gretel,” is one of many fairy tales in Grimm’s works and as well as in many others that introduce the story with a weak family. Weak defined as in a family that does not follow the “ideal family structure”(SEC SOURCE), such as having the protagonists family lacking an authoritative father and or caring mother figure. With this as such a common way to introduce a story, in this story in particular, it is utilized and has more of a developmental trajectory for both the protagonist and the reader itself. Grimm exercises a ______ of broken families in means to develop the protagonist and educate the reader. However, one cannot fully understand Grimm’s purpose and safely assume what an “ideal family structure” consists of. In order to do so, historical context and ____ must be analyzed.

An ideal family structure in a general sense might consist

Women would be doing less of the work versus men, however with a small percentile of women doing more of the work. Looking at Annette Lamousé’s research journal, “Family Roles of Women: A German Example” in The Journal of Marriage and Family, which features original research concerning a variety of aspects of families and other forms of close relationships in Germany during the 20th century, in terms of labor division in German families, “still looks fairly traditional”(Lamousé 148) with very extreme segments of families (about fourteen percent) where the wife is dominant in all areas, with little participation of her husband. Traditional, in this case described by Lamousé is where the males and females have a more equal participation in division of labor or where males take on more of the tasks, and this is what would probably be considered as “ideal” but what is perhaps more socially acceptable. TIE IN WITH HANSEL AND GRETEL A