Environmental Identity in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimms' “Hänsel & Grethel
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Rackham, Arthur. Hansel and Gretel. 1909 ABC Crane, Walter. Red Riding Hood. 1875. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014 Leutemann, Heinrich and Offterdinge, Carl n.d. Maia Classic FM. Web. 31 January 2014 Chance. Web. 31 January 2014 THE CHILD VS THE FOREST Environmental Identity in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimms’ “Hänsel & Grethel”, “Little Snow White” and “Little Red-cap.” Monday, 5 May 14 ENVIRONMENTAL IDENTITY Environmental identity allows an individual to form a self-concept: “a sense of connection to some part of the nonhuman natural environment, based on history, emotional attachment, and/or similarity that affects the way in which we perceive and act toward the world” (Clayton 45-6). N.A Little Red Riding Hood Silhouette, 2013. bigmako.deviantart.com Web. 31 January 2014. Monday, 5 May 14 INDUSTRY “ … many parts … are well wooded, and adorned with a great number of beautiful seats and villas; but we are sorry to observe such immense tracts of open heath, and uncultivated land, which strongly indicate the want of means, or inclination to improve it, and often reminds the traveller of uncivilized nations, where nature pursues her own course, without the assistance of human art. “ (Griffin 142) N.A. Silhouette of a nuclear power plant. 2003-14. Shutterstock.com Web. 31 January 2014. Monday, 5 May 14 N.A Margaret Raine. N.D Queenslandfamilytrees.com Web. 31 January 2014. Margaret Hunt Margaret Hunt’s collection is widely perceived as ideal for academic discourse as it is the most definitive edition collated during nineteenth- century England. It contains over two The Brothers Grimm hundred tales from the Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen as well as ten religious stories for children. (Kyritsi 28) Grimm, Ludwig Emil. Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm. 1843. Wikipedia. Web. 31 January 2014. Monday, 5 May 14 Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood. 1875. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014 Monday, 5 May 14 “See, Little Red-Cap, how pretty the flowers are about here–why do you not look round? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing; you walk gravely along as if you were going to school, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.” Little Red-Cap raised her eyes, and … she saw the sunbeams dancing here and there through the trees, and pretty flowers growing everywhere … and so she ran from the path into the wood to look for flowers. And whenever she had picked one, she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on, and ran after it, and so got deeper and deeper into the wood. (Grimm 111) Crane, Walter. Little Red Riding Hood Monday, 5 May 14 . 1875. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014 Jacomb Hood, G.P.Little Red Riding Hood. 1889. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. Red-Cap’s Forest The landscape provides the setting which enables the protagonist to succeed in this endeavor. If Little Red Cap had not engaged more fully in the natural landscape … gathering beautiful flowers, there would be no story; she would have remained the “little” darling of the village with an external identity (Red Cap) assigned to her by her milieu. (197). Crane, Walter.Household Stories from the Collection of the Bros: Grimm. 1886. Chawedrosin.wordpress.com Web. 31 January 2014. Wehnert, Edward H. Little Red-Cap. 1869. Internet Archive. Web. 31 January 2014. Doré, Gustave Little Red Riding Hood. 1867. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. Monday, 5 May 14 The “Wolf” “The grandmother lived out in the wood, half a league from the village, and just as Little Red-Cap to the entered the wood, a wolf met her.” (Grimm 110-1 [my emphasis]) anchored Kelly. Howling Wolf Head Silhouette Clip Art. 2012. Clker.com Web. 31 January 2014. Monday, 5 May 14 forest image • In his work on German legal antiquities, Jacob Grimm wrote: “Wargus, however, signifies wolf and robber because the banished criminal becomes a resident of the forest, just like a predatory animal, and may be hunted, just like a wolf” (qtd in Mueller 224) • “Outlawing the human convict gave him the status of wolf. Banned from the campfire, he had to live like the four-legged wolf in the dreaded forest, there to die or to be killed. It is this two-legged wolf that we see tromping around the fairy tales.” (Mueller 225) Monday, 5 May 14 Rakham, Arthur. Little Red Riding Hood. 1909. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2013 “What big eyes you have!” “What big ears you have!” “What large hands you have!” “What a terrible big mouth you have!” Monday, 5 May 14 Little SnowWHITE JustJDesigns Snow White Silhouette. 2007-14. RedBubble.com Web. January 31 2014 Monday, 5 May 14 Harbour, Jennie. Snowdrop 1921. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014 Snow White and the Forest “But now the poor child was all alone in the great forest, and so terrified that she looked at every leaf of every tree, and did not know what to do. Then she began to run, and ran over sharp stones and through thorns, and the wild beasts ran past her, but did her no harm.” (Grimm 208) Monday, 5 May 14 Snow White “unbolt[ed] the door” (211), “let[s] herself be beguiled, and opened the door” (212) and opens a window pane to place “her head out the window” to grasp the infamous poisoned apple (213). It is only within the vicinity of the cabin that her trauma transpires. “The forest is safe and secure ... the human world means danger.” (Murray & Heumann 69) Leutemann, Heinrich and Offterdinge Carl n.d. Maia Jüttner, Franz. Snow White. 1905. Chance. Web. 31 January 2014 Crane, Walter. Snowdrop. 1886. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. polarbearstale.blogspot.com Web. 31 January 2014 Monday, 5 May 14 N.A. Hansel and Gretel and Witch Silhouettes. 2013. Wikimedia Commons. Web. 31 January 2014. HÄNSEL & GRETHEL Monday, 5 May 14 Robinson, Charles. Hansel and Gretel. 1911. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014 Leutemann, Heinrich and Offterdinger, Carl. Hansel and Gretel. N.D. Earthpages.wordpress.com Web. 31 January 2014. Grethel as Heroine Grethel wept bitter tears, When they had walked for two … Hänsel comforted his little and said to Hänsel, “Now all hours, they came to a great piece sister and said, “Just wait, is over with us.” “Be quiet, of water. “We cannot get over,” Grethel,” said Hänsel, “do not Grethel, until the moon rises, and said Hänsel, … [though Grethel then we shall see the crumbs of distress thyself. I will soon answered], “but a white duck is bread which I have strewn about, find a way to help swimming there ; if I ask her, she they will show us the way home us.” (Grimm 62) will help us over” (68) again.” (65). Monday, 5 May 14 Willcox Smith, Jessie. Hansel and Gretel. 1911 Rackham, Arthur Hansel and Gretel.1909. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 Willcox Smith, Jessie. Hansel and Gretel. 1911. Sur La talesoffaerie.blogspot.com.au Web. 31 January 2014. January 2014 Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. Grethel as Heroine Ford, H J. Hansel and Gretel. 1889. Sur La Ford, H J. Hansel and Gretel. 1889. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 Rackham, Arthur Hansel and Gretel.1909. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. January 2014. January 2014 Monday, 5 May 14 Franklin Betts, Ethel. Hansel and Gretel. 1917. Sur La Willcox Smith, Jessie. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Goble, Warwick. Little Red Riding Hood. 1913. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. 1911. Sur La Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. Lune. Web. 31 January 2014. Once upon a time... Monday, 5 May 14 Thank you Monday, 5 May 14 • Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. “Little Red-Cap.” Grimm’s Household Tales. Trans. Margaret Hunt. London: George Bell and Sons. Vol. 1. 1884. (page References number here) Open Library. 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