IV-Rizal
February 10, 2014
SUBJECT
Rapuzel is a German fairy tale in the collection assembled by the Brothers Grimm, and first published in 1812 as part of Children and Household Tales. The Grimm Brothers’ is an adaptation of the fairy tale Persinette by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force originally published in 1698. Its plot has been used and parodied in various media and its best known line (“Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair”) is an popular idiom of popular culture.
SETTING
In a small German village Rapunzel’s family had a house with a small window in the back of the house, from which there’s a splendid garden full of lush colors with plenty of crisp beans, green peas, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, cucumbers, beets to the crinkly lettuce, with a bed planted with a most beautiful rapunzel plant. The fruits and the vegetables in this garden were so fresh, so green and so tempting. However this garden was surrounded by a high wall and no one dared to go into it, because it belonged to the witch “Dame Gothel” who had great power and was dreaded by the entire world.
In a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window
Main Characters
Rapunzel
-a beautiful lady with a long hair named after the plant “rapunzel” her mother craved. An enchantress shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods.
Flynn Rider (Eugene Fitzherbert)
-a heroic, humorous, charming, romantic and handsome prince. He’s the one who rescued Rapunzel and free her from Mother Gothel.
Mother Gothel
-a woman who poses as Rapunzel’s motherly figure, and is responsible for kidnapping and locking her in a tower. Her main goal is to remain young and beautiful forever. She is a manipulative, overprotective, evil, jealous, arrogant, greedy, selfish, rude, uncaring, clever, sarcastic, treacherous, dangerous and cunning woman.
Stabbington Brothers
-They appear to be twins, both having red hair, light blue eyes, big noses, big jaws, muscular bodies and the same height.
PLOT
A lonely couple, who want a child, live next to a walled garden belonging to an enchantress. The wife, experiencing the cravings associated with the arrival of her long-awaited pregnancy, notices a rapunzel plant growing in the garden and longs for it, desperate to the point of death. One night, her husband breaks into the garden to gather some for her; on a second night, as he scales the wall to return home, the enchantress catches him and accuses him of theft. He begs for mercy, and she agrees to be lenient, on condition that the then-unborn child be given to her at birth. Desperate, he agrees. When the baby is born, the enchantress takes her to raise as her own, and names her Rapunzel, after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she reaches her twelfth year, the enchantress shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window. When she visits her, she stands beneath the tower and calls out:"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair, so that I may climb the golden stair".
Upon hearing these words, Rapunzel would wrap her long, fair hair around a hook beside the window, dropping it down to the enchantress, who would then climb up the hair to Rapunzel's tower room.
One day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees the enchantress visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When the enchantress has gone, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down. When she does so, he climbs up, makes her acquaintance, and eventually asks her to marry him. She agrees.
Together they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night and bring Rapunzel a piece of silk, which she will gradually weave into a ladder. Why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than her.[8] In anger, she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into the wilderness to fend for herself.
When the prince calls that night, the enchantress lets the severed hair down to haul him up. To his horror, he finds himself staring at her instead of Rapunzel, who is nowhere to be found. When she tells him in anger that he will never see Rapunzel again, he leaps from the tower in despair and is blinded by the thorns below.
For months, he wanders through the wastelands of the country and eventually comes to the wilderness where Rapunzel now lives with the twins she has given birth to, a boy and a girl. One day, as she sings while fetching water, the prince hears her voice again, and they are reunited. When they fall into each other's arms, her tears immediately restore his sight. He leads her and their children to his kingdom, where they live happily ever after.
TURNING POINT
When Rapunzel is born, the enchantress takes her to raise as her own, and names her Rapunzel, after the plant her mother craved. She grows up to be the most beautiful child in the world with long golden hair. When she reaches her twelfth year, the enchantress shuts her away in a tower in the middle of the woods, with neither stairs nor a door, and only one room and one window.
One day, a prince rides through the forest and hears Rapunzel singing from the tower. Entranced by her ethereal voice, he searches for her and discovers the tower, but is naturally unable to enter. He returns often, listening to her beautiful singing, and one day sees the enchantress visit, and thus learns how to gain access to Rapunzel. When the enchantress has gone, he bids Rapunzel let her hair down. When she does so, he climbs up, makes her acquaintance, and eventually asks her to marry him. She agrees.
Together they plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night and bring Rapunzel a piece of silk, which she will gradually weave into a ladder. Why it is easier for her to draw up the prince than her.[8] In anger, she cuts off Rapunzel's hair and casts her out into the wilderness to fend for herself.
When the prince calls that night, the enchantress lets the severed hair down to haul him up. To his horror, he finds himself staring at her instead of Rapunzel, who is nowhere to be found. When she tells him in anger that he will never see Rapunzel again, he leaps from the tower in despair and is blinded by the thorns below. In another version, she pushes him and he falls on the thorns, thus becoming blind.
MY THOUGHTS I want to recommend this to the people out there because it has moral values, and it explains true love on which when two persons are destined, no one or any powers can broke them. “True love conquers all.” It really held my interest and made me think on how Rapunzel will help herself get out of that tower and then a prince came. It made me chill and it’s destined that a prince will help her to get out of that tower because in real life, I don’t think a man will go on a place like that. The characters are likeable though sometimes you’ll get angry of what they’re doing especially Mother Gothel.
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