Among different perspectives of the tales, this essay will try to focus on one of these, so I would like to point out one: the element of sacrifice. In Grimm’s tales the element of sacrifice is a neutral act in itself, but always bonded to the moral ground of the character who performs the sacrifice . Even the intensity of sacrifice does not change that. It only depends on the person who makes it. Look at the tales of Aschenputtel , The Almond Tree or Snow-white , where really false intentions drive the antagonists to do horrible things to get what they want. In the Aschenputtel we see how the mother tries to put her daughter into the golden shoe with the order ‘’ Cut the toe off… ’’ , just to make the foot fit (p.107) and later it don’t pay. Same happens with the stepmother of Snow-white , who has extremely sick desire to be the fairest of us all – decides to sacrifice the Snow-white (in even more absurd cannibalistic manner), but the stepmother fails at the end. And the most...
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