"Bluebeard" and Adaptations

Image result for bluebeard“Bluebeard” and the two adaptations by the brothers Grimm have very similar plots. In “Bluebeard”, the wife is given a key and told not to go into a room and yet curiosity gets the best of her. She goes into the room and finds six other of Bluebeard's wives hanging on the wall wife their throats slit. This causes the wife to drop the key. When Bluebeard gets back he asks for the key back and the wife wasn’t able to get the blood stains off of the key. Thus, Bluebeard has to kill his wife since she saw something she was not supposed to see. Yet, she is able to be saved by her brothers. In the “Fitcher’s Bird”, the sorcerer goes and steals women and tells them not to go into a room. He gives them a key and an egg. The women again go into the room and see a bunch of body parts. This causes them to drop the egg and they aren’t able to get blood stains off of the egg. The sorcerer then has to kill the two women, yet the third woman is clever and leaves the egg in a safe spot before opening the door. She is then able to free her sisters and trick the sorcerer. The third story, “The Robber Bridegroom” has a different plot, yet the woman still is able to free herself at the end by storytelling. Each story is unique with their symbols. In the “Fitcher’s Bird”, there was the egg that wouldn’t get the blood off. “Bluebeard” had the key that if you cleaned it, kept the blood on it. “The Robber Bridegroom” was unique because the wife actually saw firsthand, her soon to be husband killing someone and saw his true colors. I personally enjoyed “The Robber Bridegroom” the best because of the ending. The way that the story was told and you could see someone telling her “it’s just a dream” multiple times was very cool.

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