Little Tales Hansel and Grettel

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When he leaves, Eun-soo enters the room and looks over the notebook that the siblings have been working on for a long time. Or one could imagine a tongue-in-cheek Marxist reading of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ which analyses the story – in the spirit of Frederick Crews’ glorious The Pooh Perplex and Postmodern Pooh – as a Marxist fable about the redistribution of wealth whereby the resourceful revolutionaries, Hansel and Gretel, part of a labouring family and thus members of the proletariat, overthrow (or oven-throw) their hated oppressor, seizing her ill-gotten gains (where has she got all that money from – one can’t imagine that paedophagy, or child-cannibalism, is all that lucrative) and ensuring that that wealth is distributed to the working classes. The witch’s oven has such horrible recent associations that I have never considered re-telling the story (although I have written versions of ‘Snow White’, ‘The Frog Prince’, ‘Whuppity Story’, ‘Rapunzel’ (and it was rather difficult in that one to explain the apparent willingness of the parents’ to give up their baby), and ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’. However, a singer’s illness forced the cancellation of that production, so the first performance fell to Richard Strauss, who, as the composer’s friend, had already planned to conduct Hänsel and Gretel in a Christmas-season run in Weimar. Alongside my learning, studying, and thinking about digital platforms and critical theory, I appreciate long conversations with close friends, reading poetry, and taking photos of my cat.

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As the witch's eyes are too weak to notice the deception, she is fooled into thinking Hansel is still too thin to eat.

When the brother and sister opened the door to their home, their father was wild with joy to see them. And as the above summary demonstrates, it’s a gem of a story: it’s not difficult to see, with its plucky and sympathetic child-protagonists, its house made out of food, and its sense of real peril, why it’s become such a favourite with ‘children of all ages’.

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At about noonday they saw a beautiful snow-white bird sitting upon a bough, which sang so sweetly that they stood still and listened to it. The window is made of transparent sugar (with this detail, did the Brothers Grimm anticipate the fake sugar glass used in a thousand films and television shows since? Hansel and Gretel's trail of breadcrumbs inspired the name of the navigation element " breadcrumbs" that allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents. Hansel stooped down, and put as many into his pocket as it would hold; and then going back, he said to Gretel, “Be comforted, dear sister, and sleep in peace; God will not forsake us. These are better than pebbles,” said Hansel, putting as many into his pocket as it would hold; while Gretel thought, “I will take some too,” and filled her apron full.With this, alongside her idea of Hansel stuffing his face in the interior of the house, Gretel eventually followed inside. She coaxes Gretel to the open oven and asks her to lean over in front of it to see if the fire is hot enough.