Many people know of the fairy tales and nursery rhymes of their childhoods. Though when people think of these tales and rhymes, they don’t think about plagues, wars, sieges, or of walking on glass. But by shedding light on the hidden facts and meanings of these stories, people can be better educated of the stories and rhymes they thought they knew. An example to start with is Cinderella she had to pick beans and lentils out of the ashes to get her meals. With Miss Mary Mack it’s believed it was an African-American spiritual for children and in The Little Mermaid every step she takes it feels like walking on glass. So now people will know the true meanings and stories they thought they knew, and will never tell their kids again.
First off is Cinderella and Snow White, these stories were both written by the Brothers Grimm and later published by …show more content…
Their father was in the career of law, so the two men both went to the University of Marburg to pursue legal studies like him from 1802-1806. They later separated when Jacob became a royal librarian for one of Napoleon's brothers, Jérôme, King of Westphalia in 1808 and Wilhelm couldn't go to work until 1814 due to health complications. So in 1814 he worked at a royal library in Kassel and was joined by his brother in 1816 as a secretary. Though many people associate Brothers Grimm with writing these fairy tales, they didn't actually write them. When industrialization started to take root in Germany, many traditions started to disappear. So it was scholars like Brothers Grimm who made a desperate attempt to save the fairy tales, and so they interviewed and talked to friends and family, and they wrote them down. Though they denied it, people believed they changed the original stories to make them more attractive