Hello all! Welcome to my blog on the Grimm Brothers and the Disney versions of the tales. To start off I would like to explain why I chose this course as my freshman seminar. I was flipping through the packet that came in the beginning of the summer, trying to see if anything stuck out to me. I have to be totally honest, I wasn't completely thrilled to be picking a course, I was in denial that I was leaving for college in a few months. I was finally able to sit down with my parents and sort through the courses that seemed more interesting than others. I narrowed down my decision to two courses that seemed interesting. One was in my field of study, English, and the other was Grimm to Disney. I had heard over and over that your freshmen seminar should be something that you're interested in, something fun, something that could spread your horizons. I knew that Grimm to Disney would probably be the course for me. A course that I could learn something completely new in. In this se...
In this blog entry I will be comparing the film, “Brothers Grimm” and the real life of the Grimm brothers. There are a lot of differences between the two, most of which are fiction from the movie. However, let me start off with what is true throughout the movie. First off, it is true that Jacob and Wilhelm were brothers. Second, Germany was occupied by the French during the brothers childhood and for part of their adulthood. This is where we start to vear into fiction territory. Although Germany was occupied by the French, the French never went out and captured the Grimm brothers. Even in the movie, the roles of the brothers were switched. Jacob, who in real life was the oldest and took the role as the parent when their father died, was portrayed as the weird brother that Wilhelm had to be in charge of. In the movie, Wilhelm was a playing but both brothers were so focused on their studies that it wasn’t their lifestyle to go out to bars and sleep with girls. The movie showed the brothers going from town to town collecting stories and fighting off the mystical creatures for money. However, in real life women from the middle class would come to the brothers and they would record down the folk tales and stories the women told them. Another fiction part of the movie was that children didn’t disappear while walking in an enchanted forest and then come back to life. The Grimm brothers were in real life very scholarly and very well known for their political stands as well as their writings. The brothers felt the nationalism for Germany and often wrote about it in books.
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