Work Cited

Work Cited

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Class Reflection

Throughout all my years in education, I've always enjoyed reading stories in English class. Even when the reading is hard or simply not interesting, I still enjoy the subject. I enjoy breaking a scene or character down to it's bare essentials and finding themes within stories. The stories that we read this semester were rather. "The Cask of Amontillado" and "Oedipus" are the stories I enjoyed the most, reading and writing about. My views of literature have changed, and I have most definitely learned that any type of story is worth reading. I have also learn to appreciate author's more. I enjoyed learning how Emily Dickinson has thousands of unpublished poems, and the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe

The class itself was rather difficult, in my opinion. I had outside sources effecting my work ethic and at home projects, but I attempted to work past that. I did struggle at some points, more specifically, the two essays, and even this final blog. I was originally very worried about how I was going to handle this, but once I found a topic I wanted to center it on, my anxiety lessened. With the blog, I was able to present my ideas in my own way, and was given the liberty to add my own connections to certain points in my blog.

A small qualm I have this class, more specifically, online. All of my other professors use blackboard, except my English professors. The college supplied professors and students with a site that functions well and is used for updates on classes and grades, and I don't understand why some professors neglect to use it. The blog accomplishes the same thing as Blackboard, without the grades.

Final Statement

I greatly enjoyed researching the Grimm Brothers. The significance of the Grimm Brothers lies with their collected stories, and how ageless they seem. In fact, many people in this class have probably seen or read several of these tales in a film or novel. As previously mentioned, many people in the past and present use the Grimm Brother's tales as some sort of reference, whether it be the brothers them selves, or the tales. Its quite jarring to see how grim and different the older tales were, from how gruesome they were to how antisemitic some where. Nevertheless, these stories have survived for almost 200 years, while evolving constantly throughout

Some more on legacy...

The cover of the Grimm core rule book, with a tagline that reads "A role-playing game of adventure in a world of twisted fairy tales."

https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/products/grimm-rpg/

Trailer for The Brothers Grimm film

Trailer for Once Upon a Time television series

Legacy of the Grimm Brothers

December 20th, 1812, is when the the Grimm Brothers published their first edition of "Children's and Household Tales," now commonly refereed to as "Grimms' Fairy Tales" (Battistella), It is considered on of the most popular literary works of German origin (Battistella). The stories are translated into more then 160 different languages. By publishing this collection, the Grimm Brothers would weave fairy tales into the daily lives of many people, even today. The Grimms fostered an endless source of inspiration for writers, filmmakers and artists, who all take from their published works (Battistella).

Countless people and companies today use the original stories as reference. Disney is leading example of this, as mentioned earlier, with at-least 8 of their films being directly based on the family-friendly versions of various Grimm Brother's stories. Most of these films were a massive success, and were a major part of many people's childhood memories. A movie titled "The Brothers Grimm" was released in 2005 (Battistella). While main characters of the movie bare the same name as the brothers, but don't exactly follow the same role. Rather then being writers, the brothers are con-artists, and the world they inhabit is full of the tales they helped collect. A recent TV series titled "Once Upon a Time" uses many of the original stories as references and characters. Many fantasy games, films, and TV series will often have a character relating to one of the tales. For example, there exists a Dungeon & Dragons add on simply named "Grimm," which consists of many of the original tales' settings, with the main characters being the players.

Shrek and Hoodwinked

Disney has made several films featuring solely on Grimm Fairy tales. However, one film in particular wasn't based on the stories exactly, but instead created a world with the characters from the stories inhabiting it. Yes, this movie is "Shrek." In the world of "Shrek," many of the original Grimm fairy tales make appearances, but in some sort of weird, cartoon-ish way. Puss in Boots is a swashbuckler, Snow White is very vain and proud, and boasts that she is the "fairest in the land," Cinderella is a germophobe, Sleepy Beauty is lazy and is asleep for a good portion of the film (Gutenberg). One of the more comical variants of the classic fairy tales is that the Big Bad Wolf is quite kind-hearted, and has befriended the three little pigs. (Gutenberg)

These two videos showcase many of the Fairy Tales creatures in Shrek

Another animated fairy tale film, that is not produced by Disney, tried to do what Shrek did, make a world of wacky fairy tale characters. This movie is "Hoodwinked." In this movie world, the story of "Litte Red Riding Hood" is interrupted with a police investigation about the events of story. The movie tries to be a crime mystery, featuring many characters from tales collected by the Grimm Brothers.

Grimm Brother's stories in Modern times

When they first appeared, the Grimm Brother's stories differed extremely from the stories of today. They were much darker, with characters often dying or being tortured in very grotesque ways. In modern times, most of the stories have been striped of that violence and adapted to appeal to a younger audience. During the beginning of motion pictures, fairy tales were ideal for film making, due to the fact that they didn't need much exposition or explanation, as most of the tales were well known, and the stories themselves were short. However, as film evolved, fairy tales faded.

By the time animated movies began, fairy tales were adopted by this new movie format. An animation company known as "Laugh-'O-Gram" was creating shortened, altered versions of the original tales. At this point in time, a certain skilled animator wished to create animations that were more faithful to the original tales. This man's name is Walt Disney (Lee, 12). After creating his own company, he wished to create "Snow White," but with more of the Grimm Brother's ideas (Lee, 12). All of the darker ideas were vetoed by the staff, the only route to go was to create a version without any of the darker aspects (Lee, 13). This film, of course, was extremely popular. Animated fairy tales films following the release of "Snow White" were devoid of anything dark, thus creating the modern fairy tale genre.