Rapunzel was a childhood story that I heard bits and pieces of. Fairy tales are not something that was talked about in my family. Coming from a home of busy, hardworking immigrants, the childhood fairy tales that were shared were little to none. Despite this, I was able to piece together some of the stories of Rapunzel from schoolmates and adapted versions from kid's shows. I already knew about the trapped girl who was saved by the prince by lowering her extremely long hair for him to climb up, but it wasn’t until this class that I got the full story. Looking past my personal interests, Rapunzel is a great example of “The Stages of the Hero’s Journey” described by Christopher Vogler. When describing the Ordeal seen in Rapunzel, one must conclude that it is not apparent. Or it doesn’t jump …show more content…
This explanation is subjective, unlike the example Vogler gives in his next paragraph. In this paragraph, he says the hero may witness or cause death directly, and this would be their greatest challenge – their Ordeal. By solely focusing on the first definition, the reader can see that the ordeal would be when Rapunzel confronted the sorceress. After being trapped for many years by her foster mother, she reveals that she has been with a man. The sorceress, Frau Gothel, felt betrayed and cut off Rapunzel’s beautiful long hair and sent her to the woods to suffer. Rapunzel faced her greatest fear (her foster mother) only to still face continual suffering away from the love of her life – the prince – in the woods. Additionally, when viewing Rapunzel as a love story, Vogler’s example continues to support the fact that this scene is the Ordeal. Vogler explains that the end of a relationship is the “death” the hero experiences during the ordeal. The separation of Rapunzel from the prince fulfills this definition. Notably, Rapunzel only gained the confidence to defy the sorceress after meeting the
Have you ever gone so far to achieve your dreams? In Tangled by Disney, Rapunzel is trapped in a tower by Gothel, who pretends to be her mother. Gothel prohibits Rapunzel from leaving the tower. Every year on her birthday, she sees floating lights in the sky and she dreams about leaving the tower and going to see the lights.When Flynn Rider breaks into her house, she convinces him to take her to see the lights. When Disney introduced Tangled, it was meant to be like every other story of a princess stuck in a tower. Tangled travels through the Hero’s Journey by going on the Call to Adventure, Crossing the First Threshold, Supreme Ordeal, and the Resurrection.
Fairy tales are a part of childhood. They go back through time depicting magical images of happy children, love stories, beauty, wealth and perfection. Authors, movie and film creators, artists and more draw beautiful images for people to remember and pass on through time. Many times the ugliness of the villains and the horrors that come into play throughout a fairy tale are often not as advertised. However, after careful analysis it is very clear that both authors of the original “Rapunzel” and its retell “The Root of The Matter” by Gregory Frost do not shy away from these evil aspects through their tales, while still capturing the magical moments that make a fairy tale memorable. The Root of the Matter fits the Rapunzel tradition with both
He continues this throughout the film. This foreshadows that Rapunzel and Flynn will eventually become lovers. This love is then used to conquer Gothel when Flynn realizes that the only way Rapunzel can be safe is if she loses the power that will save his life. So, he cuts her hair and gives up his own health for her
In the 21st centuries take on the fairytale Rapunzel, the movie “Tangled” depicts the troubled life of an adolescent that is raised by a woman whom is not her mother. Rapunzel is abducted from her crib as an infant by an evil witch, Gothel, for the sole purpose of using her magical hair to enhance her beauty to make her young again. As an eager Rapunzel ages, she soon wants to be set free into a world that she has yet to see.
A fairy tale is seemingly a moral fiction, intended mainly for children. A lesson in critical analysis, however, strips this guise and reveals the naked truth beneath; fairy tales are actually vicious, logical and sexual stories wearing a mask of deceptively easy language and an apparent moral. Two 19th Century writers, the Grimm brothers, were masters at writing these exaggerated stories, bewitching young readers with their prose while padding their stories with allusion and reference: an example of which is "Rapunzel." Grimm's "Rapunzel" is packed with religious symbolism, which lends a new insight to the meaning of this classic story.
The familiar story of Rapunzel, as told by the brothers Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl Grimm, takes on new meaning with a psychoanalytic interpretation. It is a complex tale about desire, achievement, and loss. The trio of husband, wife, and witch function as the ego, id, and superego respectively to govern behavior regarding a beautiful object of desire, especially when a prince discovers this object.
Ostensibly, the story of “Rapunzel” is the tale of a young girl, locked up in a tower by a wicked witch, the real concern of the story, however, being lust and the dangers it represents to girls as they enter the rites of passage of puberty. Symbolism pervades the story of “Rapunzel”, as in all fairy tales, giving rise to diverse interpretations. While a great deal of the symbolism is commonly found in fairy tales, the Grimm’s infuse the tale of “Rapunzel” with much from the biblical stories with which their audience would most likely be familiar. In the final version of “Rapunzel,” the Grimms add a moral message, based primarily on stories taken from the Bible, in order to demonstrate the importance of female purity.
Though Rapunzel’s lengthy confinement in one room, her home, is convincing evidence of the female’s domestic belonging, it does not adequately demonstrate the connectedness of the woman to the domestic. The ambitious young Prince faces an insurmountable task when he plans to elope with Rapunzel; he must, temporarily, displace the woman from her domestic home. After the Prince decisively wins Rapunzel’s affection, Rapunzel delineates her escape plan: “ 'I will willingly go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse’” (The Brothers Grimm). First, Rapunzel states she will “go away with [the Prince]” and he will “take [her] on [his] horse,” two statements which reveal both Rapunzel’s dependence upon the Prince and her lack of independence. Though Rapunzel agrees to leave her domestic realm, she does so only to elope in the safe, steady hands of the Prince, venturing from one sphere of domesticity, with her mother, to another sphere of domesticity with a man. Rapunzel also promises to “weave a ladder with [silk].” Weaving, a deep-rooted, traditional female activity arises in Rapunzel because it is both feminine and perfectly accessible within a domestic setting. The woman’s skills, in any patriarchal work, are not
In movies, novels, and life, people are named as heroes. The heroes we establish and the heroes we recognize, however, may not meet the criteria for a mythic hero. A mythic hero ventures forth on his journey, and comes forth from the hero’s path to greatness. Joseph Campbell, a mythologist who studied many of the great human myths and religious tales, realized, in studying these myths and tales, that there were certain steps that every hero went through. Campbell called this “The Hero’s Journey”; it is based on Carl Jung's idea that all human beings have an archetype. After Campbell studied a lot of the great myths and realized this pattern, he published his findings in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Ever since then, authors have used “The Hero’s Journey” as an outline to tell their stories. “It is important to note that not all of these individual steps are present in every hero’s tale, nor is it important that they be in this exact order” (Vogler 20). The Hero with a Thousand Faces gives a sense of significance as it looks into the inner mind and soul. The author, Joseph Campbell, performs two extraordinary accomplishments: compelling his readers that myth and dream, those are the most effective and everlasting forces in life and a unification of mythology and psychoanalysis with a gripping narrative. One well-known example of “The Hero’s Journey” from popular culture is the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, by J.K. Rowling. In the novel, Harry Potter, the main character, is the chosen one and “The Hero’s Journey” applies to his life from the moment he is attacked by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named as a baby.
Rapunzel is an old fairytale that shares some differences with the Italian version. In the German version the father of Rapunzel is present and is the one in the garden caught taking the rampion plant. This is different from the Italian version which only mentions the mother. This difference shows the differences between both countries at the time these fairy tales were written. Germany during the 1800s, was well off and broken up into different kingdoms. It was more common that a couple stayed together during such economic stability. Italy however, suffered during the time that Petrosinella was written which was 1643. Italy faced foreign domination and economic crises during this time which explains why Rapunzel mother was alone during this time. She was symbolizing the dire times that the country itself was facing. The vegetable that was stolen in the fairy tale also varies between both versions. In the German version, the husband goes after rampion radishes. Radishes and dreams of radishes are thought to be ...
The author Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a Frenchman of noble origin. As a man full of adventure, he became a pioneer who utilized a plane to send mails to high mountains and deserts. He said that he had always been ready and willing to die. During the Second World War, he worked as a reconnaissance pilot for his country. And in 1944, he disappeared when performing a flying task and became one of the most mysterious legends in the French literary history.
In many fairy tales, there is always a damsel in distress that is beautiful and the male character always falls in love with her. In Rapunzel the short story, Rapunzel is put into a tower and lives there most of her young life by her ‘mother’ before her prince comes to recuse her. The difference between Tangled and Rapunzel the short story is that, Rapunzel is the princess and her prince is actually a thief, which ends up falling in love with her. Tangled illustrates how a naïve and beautiful heroine, evil mother figure, and a shallow egotistical hero can make a fairy tale story end with love and marriage.
I chose to research the genre of fairytales because the genre retold by Grimm’s caught my attention. Fairytales in modern day usually have a happy ending after the good versus evil concept. Rapunzel specifically, isn’t told in its original form.Theres much more darkness and even though happily ever after is in play, not all fairytales end that way. Fairytales have much more depth than people realize in modern day. It portrays the real struggles we face growing up. In Rapunzel, her mother gave her away and she was raised by an enchantress who locked her away. This very much explains child abandonment or a child that has been given up for adoption and the things they face growing up.Theres a connection between these fairytales and real life situations .Fairytales have a way of expressing real life situations in a way that uses a few elements that help tell the story in a way children can understand. Some of the elements include: magic, morals, royalty and love.
A Classic Fairy Tale A fairy tale is a children’s story usual about magical beings, lands, and usually has a problem that needs to be solved. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm wrote many fairy tales in the 1800s that have been retold and rewritten to be more kid friendly over the centuries. While the Grimm brothers tales were usually graphic and sexual, the same settings and characters were used in retelling the stories, including “Rapunzel”. The Grimm brothers’ version of the fairy tale is not the same Rapunzel we grew up with but is has many of the characteristics of a fairy tale.
Firstly, at such a young age, we are exposed to the prince rescuing the princess, whether it be from a tower or a deep sleep. Theresa Tonn, a graduate student of the University Wisconsin-Stout, stated in her research that Lois Fowler, English professor at Carnegie Mellon University, and Kathleen McCormick, Literature and Writing professor at SUNY, “argue[d] that the introduction of fairy tales at an age when the distinction between ‘fantasy and reality is blurry leads readers to accept the stereotypical conventions of fairy tales’: princesses are mistreated, women in power are evil, and everyone lives happily ever after” (1). Our imagination is unrestrained at such a young age that many of the stories read to us become a big part of that imagination. When we recall back to those memories we have a hard time distinguishing the difference between reality and a silly story. Without