FairyTalesBy Sara, Caden, &

Kyle

FAIRY TALE DEFINITION

Good vs. Evil

Happy Ending

Evil & Magical Characters ex: witches, evil

stepmother

Moral or lesson

Amuses the audience

TYPES OF CHARACTERS

Princes & Princesses

King & Queen

Heroes ex: Robin Hood

Magical ex: Flora, Fona,

Maryweather, Fairy

Godmother

Witches

Hansel & Gretel

Animals

Giants

Magical Plants, Items

SETTINGS

PLACES

TIME

Forests

Midnight

Castles Long,

Long, Ago

Towers Once

upon a time

Candy Houses

Market Place

Water (swamp)

Hole in the ground

THE GRIMM BROTHERS

Jacob Ludwig (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859)

German brothers born Hanau, Germany

Family of eight boys & one girl

Published 156 stories/fairy tales

Occupations of librarians & professors in the 1920s & 1930s

Popular Fairy Tales includes: Shoemaker & the Elves, Rapunzel,

Frog Prince, The Four Musicians, Hansel & Gretel, The Brave

Little Tailor, The Wolf and Seven Little Kids, Snow White and Rose Red

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN

Danish author & poet

Born in Denmark in 1805

Tried being an actor, singer & dancer

1835 wrote & published the first of 156 fairy tales

Some popular fairy tales: The Little Mermaid, The

Nightingale,

Little Tuk, Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling, The

Angel, The Little Match Girl, The Fir Tree

CHARLES PERRAULT

Born in Paris, France in 1628

He became a high ranking civil servant and a member of the French Academy

In 1697 he published a book called “Histories or Tales of Past Times with

Morals”

This book told stories of 80 Fairy Tales

Popular Fairy Tales:• Sleeping Beauty• Red Riding Hood• Cinderella• Puss in Boots• Diamonds and Toads• Bluebeard• Hop O’ My Thumb

RABBI NAHMANBorn in 1772 in Medzhibozh in Ukraine

In 1806 his infant son Shlomo Ephraim died from an unknown

illness; this is when he turned to writing his stories

Wrote stories from summer of 1806-1810 when he died from

tuberculosis

Created 13 new fairy tales and a number of parables and folktales

Fairy tales Folktales• The Pirate Princess The Fixer• The Gem Prince The Treasure• The Merchant and the Poorman The Turkey Prince• The Lost Princess

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