My character is Rapunzel and my character is interesting to try and play because she has very very! long hair and trying to work with that will be difficult but fun. I like a challenge and doing things I’ve never done before because new things are exciting. Also, I’m proud of my work I’ve done so far but I am very much looking forward to the experience. Now I will tell you more about Rapunzel and Grimm’s tales and also I’ll include some Tangled versions to see the difference in my research on this page.
These are Rapunzel’s parents the King and Queen Primrose this is a picture of the Tangled version/Disney version. This is a picture of the King and Queen at Rapunzel’s wedding at the end of the movie.
There was once a man and his wife who had long desired for a child but had been unsuccessful. Now there was a little window at the back of their house that overlooked a magnificent garden full of the finest vegetables and flowers but it was surrounded by a high wall, and no one ventured inside it, since it belonged to a witch of great might, and of whom the whole world was scared.
One day, as the wife stood at the window, gazing out into the garden, she noticed a bed full of the finest rampion, and it looked so fresh and green that she began to desire for some, and eventually, she craved for it badly. This went on for days, and she got pale and depressed because she knew she couldn’t receive the rampion. The man became concerned and inquired, “What is the matter, dear wife?”. “Oh, I’m going to die unless I can get some of that rampion to eat that grows in the garden behind our house,” she replied. The man, who adored her, reasoned to himself, “Rather than lose my wife, I’ll get some rampion, whatever the cost.” So, at dusk, he crept over the wall into the witch’s garden, gathered a handful of rampion quickly, and took it to his wife. She fashioned a salad out of it all at once and ate to her heart’s content. But she enjoyed it so much and it tasted so nice that the next day she craved it three times as much as she had before; if she was to have any. The man must once again scale the wall. So he went back in the twilight, and as he was climbing back, he noticed the witch standing before him, and was terrified, as she yelled angrily, “How dare you climb over into my garden like a thief, and steal my rampion!” It will be disastrous for you!”
“Oh, be merciful rather than just,” he replied, “I have only done it out of necessity; for my wife saw your rampion out the window, and became possessed with such a strong desire that she would have died if she could not have had some to eat.” The witch then said, “If everything is as you say, you may have as much rampion as you like, on one condition: the child who will be born must be given to me.” It will be well with the child, and I will look after it like a mother.”