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Oh! so different not like tangled, unexpected at all!
Like with many other fairy tales, some weird things happen here but heck that's pretty standard for fairy tales.One thing I do have to ponder as an adult is that I imagine a tower didn't have much access to any water unless Rapunzel was able to collect rainwater and what have you, and with all her hair, that would end up one really nasty, grody mess especially if it was being used as a ladder.At least in the movie Tangled, Rapunzel's hair was literally magical so it'd explain how it stayed so si...
Very interesting to see the original tale.Like many, I grew up watching Tangled but I actually enjoyed this version and how much darker it was,
Seems like a LOT was altered in the disney version (Tangled), which is unexpected to me.
The original Grimm Brothers tale is very, very sad... although it does end happily ever after. The evil woman chops off Rapunzel's hair, who's pregnant with twins. The prince is blind, but regains sight when he somehow finds Rapunzel and kids living in poverty in the woods... Her tears nourish his vision. An absolutely beautiful, well~written tale. FYI: she's named "Rapunzel" after the rampion plant, which may have been used in medieval times for mouth/throat afflictions.
2 stars. Disney did a far better job of making the story memorable. It definitely has a gruesome side to it.
The stories Grimm are best in the original form. Perhaps, one should say the form that was released by Jacob Grimm. This tale is the story of a cursed princess that lives out her curse. The beauty of the tales of Grimm is the horror.
Not so sweet as the Disney one!
Great! Really loved it. I think I have seen this type of story in the movie Tangled. Both are great.
As terrible as it sounds, what I loved most about reading this was seeing the parallel's between The Grimm's original tale, and the novelisation version of Rapunzel 'Cress' by Marissa Meyer! There were so many similarities between the two that I never knew about (only previously seeing the Disney movie Tanged) so reading this was really enjoyable for that element!
To me, the story was about craving what you shouldn't desire, how big consequences can be to satisfy it, that some people would do everything for such craving. The second part was about trying to protect someone from a 'corrupt world', at the cost of freedom.I am starting to look at Grimms' fairy tale as a structure consisting of two types. One is the message for people (adults), full of harshness, metaphors, etc. and then (nearing to the end and a happy ending) it is as a tale for children.[Thi...
Well, rather shocking
Wow, this is such a short story - I think I prefer the movie(s) in this case!
Who doesn't know the stunning story of Rapunzel, the girl with the long hair, kept captured by a witch in a tall, tall tower? A childhood classic for many people of my generation, older generations, and even generations to come. However, in the countless retellings of this classic story, so many beautiful details are missed out. Visiting the original story text was a short but stunning adventure for me. I got to receive nostalgia, whilst also discovering a brand new story. A tale as old as time,...
I really enjoyed this. It surprised me how much the beginning of the story had echoes quite similar to that of Beauty and the Beast. As told to me many a time, the Grimms version of Rapunzel is a lot darker and grimmer than the Disney version and tale I was told growing up. But I liked its morbidity. I feel like Rapunzel's 'magic' moment was a bit too random and happily ever after though. Especially as there is not a lick of magic in the rest of the story before now. Unless you count super long
This was a pretty shocking version! Poor Rapunzel! The ending was a little bit...well...fairytale! But all in all an entertaining and interesting story!
Interesting the ending of this story, very different but still a happy ending.
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An enjoyable fairy tale that most people would be familiar with.
I had to read this for one of my English classes. It is so cool picking these stories apart and trying to find meaning behind them. The inter texts are even cooler, my goodness!
