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Hansel Gretel Tickets Information
Hansel Gretel
Hansel and Gretel is a fairy tale of Germanic origin, adapted by the Brothers Grimm and earlier by Giambattista Basile.
Hansel and Gretel was illustrated in a 1927 story anthology. The tale as we know it from Brothers Grimm was meant to be a pleasant fable for middle-class consumers of the 19th century; the original however was probably an admonishment of the hardships of medieval life. Because of episodes of famine, war, plague and other reasons, abandoning children in the woods to die or fend for themselves was not unknown, in particular during the crisis of the Late Middle Ages. Many critics have posited that the tale likely stemmed from historical instances of abandonment caused by famine; see the works of Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar for example, with the obvious message of not accepting the seeming generosity of strangers.
In the first editions of the Grimms' collection, there was no stepmother; the mother persuaded the father to abandon their own children. This change, as in Snow White, appears to be a deliberate toning down of the unpleasantness, for children.
That the mother or stepmother happens to die when the children have killed the witch has suggested too many commentators that the mother or stepmother and the witch are, in fact, the same woman, or at least that an identity between them is strongly hinted at. Indeed, a Russian folk tale exists in which the evil stepmother (also the wife of a poor woodcutter) asks her hated stepdaughter to go into the forest to borrow a light from her sister, who turns out to be Baba Yaga- who, though her house is anything but enticing, is also a cannibalistic witch. Besides the stories highlighting the endangering the children- and indeed their cleverness- they have in common a preoccupation with food: the stepmother to avoid hunger, and the witch with her house built of food and her desire to eat the children.
The tale is Aarne-Thompson type 327A. Another tale of this type is The Lost Children. Although they are not classified under this type, the Brothers Grimm identified the French Finette Cendron and Hop o' My Thumb as parallels to the story. The basic elements are found in tales throughout the world, although their simplicity makes it hard to tell whether a given instance is a borrowing or an independent invention.
In Germany, there is a foundation set up to help abused children called the 'Hänsel+Gretel' foundation. German cross country skier Claudia Künzel donated her 4 x 5 km relay gold medal from the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City to benefit the foundation in the summer of 2007. The Simpsons, a television show, once parodied the story. In The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Billy and Mandy turn Pinnochio into a wooden seat which the evil witch of Hansel and Gretel sits on (and breaks due to her weight). This book is referred to throughout the film version of I, Robot. In the film Wes Craven's New Nightmare the story is told and is sort of used subtly throughout.
In the third season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, episode "Gingerbread", the story is attributed to a demon that thrives on discord. It creates hysteria by pretending to be two children murdered by witches, causing the community to destroy itself. It manifests every 50 years.
Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor woodcutter. Fearing starvation, the wood cutter's wife (variously called the children's mother or stepmother), convinces him to lead the children into the forest and abandon them there. Hansel and Gretel hear her plan and gather white pebbles to leave themselves a trail home. After their return, their mother again convinces the wood cutter to abandon them again; this time however, they can only leave a trail of breadcrumbs. Unfortunately, the various animals of the woods eat their trail of breadcrumbs causing Hansel and Gretel to become lost.
Lost in the forest, they find a house made of candies, with sugar windows, unable to resist, they begin to eat it. The inhabitant of the house, who is an old woman, invites them in and prepares a feast for them. The table is covered in a white lace and filled with candy, pancakes and other sweets. The woman, however, is a witch who has built the house to entice children to her, so that she may fatten and eat them. She cages Hansel, and makes Gretel her servant. While she prepares to cook Hansel, she orders Gretel to fetch her candies and fats to force feed Hansel. Unable to do anything Gretel weeps bitterly and does as she's told. Days pass by and Hansel has grown very fat as she wished.
She exclaims, "Hansel is so plump I can taste the juices!" she tells Gretel to climb into an oven to be sure it is ready to bake; but Gretel guesses that the witch intends to bake her, and tricks the witch into climbing into the oven, closing it behind her. Taking jewels from the witch's house, they set off for home to be reunited with their father, whose wife has since died of evilness. "Then all anxiety was at an end, and they lived together in perfect happiness."
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