The Brothers Grimm
In Our Time: Culture
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Fairy Tales Are Open to Rewriting
i feel sympathetic to wilhelm's desire to rewrite and to try and a sort of accommodate them to his his aesthetics and his morality. I mean that as a very, very good test case, hard case, there'r some sort of antismitic stories as well. The end of the witch in s hansell and gretel where cleverly she's tricked by gretel into putting herself in her own oven,. And then the door of the oven is slammed shut, and she burns to death, and the children go home. So i think that there is a way in which we, we can, you know, fairy tales are open to rewriting. That is what the
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