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.
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