Hansel and Gretel
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Throughout time, people have used folk tales, fairy tales, fantasy, myth, and other types stories to make sense of the world around them. For generations these tales were passed along orally, changed according to the imagination, memory, or teaching needs of the current storyteller. Eventually, many of these tales were catalogued, recorded, and written down, permanently setting down for all time the tales that have influenced children, and adults, for generations. As Datlow and Windling note, ôfairy tales speak in a deceptively simple, [yet] richly archetypal language, [and] their symbols have proven to be [] potentö and are still being reused and retold by modern writers (Datlow and Windling 2). This paper will examine the fairytale, ôHansel and Gretel,ö a tale of two children abandoned in a wood who are able to make it home only after several terrifying experiences, discussing its history and how it has influenced the way characters are portrayed in horror and dark fantasy tales. It is generally acknowledged that the popularity of cataloguing and recording fairytales first occurred during the seventeenth century in France, ôwhere Charles Perrault created a genre and set down in writing a refined version of simple popular tales which, up to then, had been transmitted by word of mouthö (Calvino xv). This genre became popular again in the nineteenth century with the publication of the ChildrenÆs and Household Tales by the Brothers Grimm (Zipes xxix).
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