Rumpelstiltskin Analisys

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by Tracy Infante1 view·Updated Nov 15, 2023
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  1. Hello, this is Tracy Infante. I will be giving the report on the analysis for Rumpel
  2. Stink.
  3. Um This is a fairytale collected by the Brothers Grimm in
  4. uh and it's a German tale in origin. It has um
  5. its setting
  6. um in a small kingdom
  7. um
  8. in Germany
  9. in around the 16th century.
  10. Um What we have here in this tale in this small kingdom is a man
  11. who is the miller. He works making um flour from the grains in the town
  12. and he brings this uh flower to the king and he wants to make a good impression.
  13. So he tells the king my daughter can turn
  14. straw into gold, she can make gold from nothing.
  15. The king is very impressed and wants to see this for himself.
  16. So they bring over the girl who has no option
  17. but to come and present herself to the king,
  18. obey what she is told by her father and now by the king telling
  19. her you must turn all of this straw that I have here into gold.
  20. Otherwise you'll be punished,
  21. which is
  22. um not even her fault, but she has nothing to do for it. So
  23. she sits there trying to do something but there's nothing she can do.
  24. So she starts crying
  25. to her help comes a magical being that she didn't expect
  26. a person that does not introduce himself but looks very strange.
  27. Uh And he claims to be magic and that he can turn the gold for her.
  28. She can turn the straw into gold.
  29. So she agrees and tells him yes, please help her.
  30. Um But this only makes the king one more gold. So he, she, he tells her again
  31. tonight, you're going to make more gold for me
  32. and the room.
  33. Um And again, the woman, she has no other choice but to obey the king
  34. um
  35. or suffer the consequences, which could be very bad. But
  36. and again, the gnome helps her
  37. um without asking for anything.
  38. And the third night, the third time that the king comes back and says, well,
  39. since you've proven that you can do this, if you can fill one more room
  40. with the gold, then I will marry you
  41. because he of course, doesn't want to let go of this woman who can produce gold.
  42. Um The woman again uh sees that this is a very big opportunity,
  43. but she is still not able to make any gold for herself.
  44. So she's at the mercy of the gnome who was trying to help her.
  45. But the third time that he comes over, he says he's not going to do it for free.
  46. He wants something in repayment. He wants something back
  47. and she offers wealth because she's going to marry the king or Lance.
  48. And the gnome doesn't want any of that. He says he wants
  49. his, her first child, the first baby that she has with the king.
  50. The woman thinking that that was not going to happen, that she would find another way
  51. and trying to get away from the situation, then
  52. promises that she will bring
  53. um that she will give him the baby when she has one.
  54. So, um the gnome goes back and turns all of this straw into gold
  55. and the king is very impressed, of course, and he fulfills his promise of marrying
  56. the beautiful woman.
  57. And after time goes by, she does have a child by the king.
  58. Uh All of this time they never heard back from the gnome until the baby
  59. was born when the gnome comes back and says,
  60. ok, now I want my payment
  61. and the woman is again desperate, um,
  62. from a situation she had gotten into and doesn't know how to do about this.
  63. So she begs and um
  64. tells the gnome to please forgive the dead or give something else.
  65. And he tells her because he's very tricky that
  66. he'll forgive her if she guesses his name because
  67. she never asked and he never gave it.
  68. So if she guesses his name, he, she can have her baby.
  69. This woman tries to um
  70. fine by many means guessing giving him names.
  71. She sends her um her um workers through the
  72. town to the kingdom to find different names.
  73. Until finally one of her guards finds in a very, very remote mountain
  74. um
  75. where no one used to live.
  76. Um He finds the gnome celebrating on his own
  77. um saying that she would never guess his name is actually Rumples
  78. Stinkin. So the gnome by celebrating before time
  79. ends up giving up his name. When someone was listening,
  80. the guard comes back and tells now the queen
  81. um about this and she's able to keep her baby.
  82. So this detail really has a lot of uh things that we can learn from.
  83. First of all, obviously
  84. not um getting
  85. involved into lies
  86. uh or saying that we can do something that cannot
  87. be done or getting into promises that we cannot fulfill.
  88. Also seeing the people um here like the Miller and the king that are
  89. very greedy. They don't care about other people but how to get more gold.
  90. Um
  91. And all of these things that they try to do, try to
  92. make up an image of who they are and what they can have.
  93. It's only for show but not really
  94. helping each other.
  95. So in the end, um
  96. the beautiful woman and the king end up having
  97. a life that is good. Thanks to the gnome that got tricked by himself.
  98. Thank you very much.