Bluebeard and His Wives

 

Photo Credit: Bluebeard by: T.E. Lawrence http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/37/bluebeard.jpg/

I love this image because it upholds to the original tale of Bluebeard. I like that it is showing the wife leaving her world to enter into Bluebeard's mysterious and dangerous world where all of his last wives lay dead. It covers everything in this one photo. The wife's shocking and terrifed realization, Bluebeard's evilness, and all of the dead wives before her. It's just twisted and dark as if the story of Bluebeard. 

Nibble, nibble, little mouse, Who is nibbling at my house?

Food plays an enormous role in Hansel & Gretel. Now reading it again as an adult the whole story is completely based around food! First the food plays the role of starvation and emptiness. The family is so far and they cannot provide enough food for themselves and their children. Then when they lure the children away from the home and into the forest, Hansel uses food to set a trail so that they can later find their way back to the house which turns out to be uneventful. Next, when Hansel and Gretel come across a house it is completely made of food and this gives the children hope and happiness. The witch then feeds the children with an adbundance of food, but then threatens to eat them. Therefore this entire story is based entirely around food.

Works Cited: 

Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm. (1812 & 1857). Hansel and Gretel.

Jacobs, Joseph. (1898). Molly Whuppie.  

Perrault, Charles. (1889) Little Thumb. 

Man's Inner Wolf Unleashed

The story does become a bit more clear when you look at it as a story of a man's inner animal unleashed. I never thought of LRRH like that but when presented with this information it makes you begin to think and it actually does make sense. How many times have women called men "animals", this would then be true in the story. Perhaps the wolf never a wolf and is always a man and is just portrayed as a wolf because of his actions. This would make sense because why would a little girl be talking to a wolf in the forest in the first place?

Works Cited: 

de France, Marie. "Bisclavret." 1996. Print.