Rapunzel Research Paper

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Original fairy tales are very different to the Disney fairytales. The fairytale story Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm changes immensely in the story of Rapunzel by Disney. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the two Rapunzel stories. In the original Rapunzel story, a husband and wife want to have a child. The wife soon ends up pregnant, but finds that if she doesn’t have rampion, she’ll die. The problem is that the only rampion in the city is guarded by a large wall and an enchantress. However, because of how much the husband loves his wife, he consents to thieving the rampion. When the husband attempts to steal the rampion he meets the enchantress, Gothel. The enchantress permits the husband stealing the rampion on one condition; she gets to raise the child his wife is pregnant with. The offspring is named Rapunzel. Rapunzel grows up inside a locked …show more content…

Unknown to them, Rapunzel has magic healing powers in her hair, that would one day grow as long as a great wave of gold . Someone who is aware of this is a cruel women named Gothel. Gothel kidnapped the princess and locked Rapunzel in a tower, where she’d never see the sun. Every year Rapunzel would wish to see the floating lights on her Birthday. Gothel refused, because she did not want anyone finding out about the princess. Soon, a thief named Flynn Rider came to the castle. Rapunzel promised to give him the satchel, that he stole, on the condition that he’d take her to the floating light on her Birthday. Flynn agreed to this and the pair headed off. On their journey, Rapunzel learned about the lost princess -a princess who was kidnaped when she was a baby-, without realizing that this was her. When Rapunzel came back to the tower, she realized that she was the lost princess. She confronted her mother about this, which resulted in her being chained. Flynn realized that Rapunzel was in danger, and headed off to go save

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